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each meteorological element is ‘correct’. For example, an 80% score means the forecast is right 80% of the time. Green – March 2026 36-month score shows long term improvement in the accuracy of this parameter (exceeds March 2023 score). Amber – March 2026 36-month score lies within tolerance band

showing a deep area of low pressure with a central pressure value of 948 hPa to the west of Scotland. Wrapped around the low pressure centre is an occluded front with a cold front lying roughly from Lincolnshire across the Midlands and down to the West Country. The warm front is just clearing the east

, with multiple heatwaves and high temperatures. Autumn and early winter saw a return to wetter and more unsettled conditions, with several named storms and significant rainfall, particularly in Northern Ireland and Wales.  How do we know when records are broken? The answer lies in a Met Office dataset that's

. Storm Deirdre brought wet and windy weather from the west on the 15th, which turned widely to freezing rain, also with sleet and snow in some places. 1 cm of lying snow was recorded at Bowhill (Selkirkshire), Tulloch Bridge (Invernesshire) and Gartocharn (Dunbartonshire) on the 16th, followed

northwesterly had established over the country dropping temperatures back to single figures away from the south coast, with lying snow being reported in parts of Invernesshire. There was a slow warming trend to the end of the month, but also wet and windy conditions too, interspersed with transient ridges

pressure. As systems off the Atlantic pushed into the UK from the west, and hit the cold air over the country, many places recorded several centimetres of lying snow, before milder air dug in and turned it all back to rain. There was another short-lived ridge on the 16th before more systems

of lying snow at Copley (County Durham) and a maximum of only 3.7 °C at Pennerley (Shropshire), and some areas saw showers of sleet and wet snow to low levels. The 28th was a little less cold, with showers mainly in eastern areas, these locally thundery with hail in the south-east, and any sleet

, situated along the typhoon belt of the Pacific, means that it is particularly vulnerable to a range of natural disasters, including tropical cyclones (typhoons), earthquakes and volcanoes. As a low-lying island nation of over 7,000 islands dominated by coastal communities, it is also highly

was measured at Loch Glascarnoch (Ross & Cromarty) on the 17th. 18th to 24th Following a frosty start with 3 cm of snow still lying at Loch Glascarnoch (Ross & Cromarty), rain spread to all but the north-east by dusk on the 18th and introduced much milder air. The 19th was mainly cloudy with some areas of rain

climate model results and observations (i.e. biases). In addition, climate models neglect unknown effects of missing earth system processes. While the combined evidence of UKCP18 covers a broad range of potential future climate pathways, it remains possible that observed future changes could lie outside