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and carrots for example and newly planted lettuces and other plants but should not greatly delay sowing and planting once conditions improve. Tender plants, petunias and tomatoes for example, won’t be put outside for another month at least but lower light affects greenhouses and will slow

, and showers developed across the north-west in the afternoon, turning thundery over the northwest Highlands and the Moray Firth. 19th to 25th A spell of wet and windy weather set in. The 19th had a foggy start in the north and east, with showers briefly developing across the Central Belt, and patchy

-2010 long-term average. Rainfall was 103% of average; many places had near-average rainfall, but the south-west was wetter and it was very dry in the north of Aberdeenshire. Sunshine was 110% of average, and some parts of Aberdeenshire, Moray and Highland had a notably sunny month. 1st to 5th

spells of rain during the day. From the 9th to 12th it was generally cloudy, while turning progressively milder. The 9th and 10th had light rain and drizzle, though with some bright spells around the Moray Firth and parts of the Northern Isles on the 9th. A significant band of rain reached western

Climates for Impacts Studies - regional climate modelling system from the Met Office Hadley Centre Background The Philippines is ranked as one of the world’s most disaster prone countries, coming third out of 171 countries based on the number of disaster events in the last 10 years. 2 It is also

. 4 2022, Met Office Modelling Model Institution Centre BCC BCC-CSM1-1 Beijing Climate Center, China Meteorological BCC-CSM1-1 Administration CSIRO-BOM ACCESS1-0 CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial ACCESS1-3-m Research Organisation, Australia), and BOM (Bureau of Meteorology, Australia

, with provisionally 491.6 hours recorded (97% of the longterm average). Southern England was marginally sunnier than Wales and Scotland, and Northern Ireland experienced the least sunshine at only 82% of the long-term average. UK statistical summary Mean temperature Rainfall Sunshine The provisional

unsettled weather to come. At the moment, Wednesday actually looks largely dry, at least to start, but then some rain is going to push its way in, particularly across southern parts later on.”

, the official trigger for a heatwave. It will also be a warm night on Friday, with urban areas holding onto the heat for longer into the evening thanks to the urban heat island effect. A UK heatwave threshold is met when a location records a period of at least three consecutive days with daily maximum

for 2025 is forecast to be between 1.29°C and 1.53°C (with a central estimate of 1.41°C) above the average for the pre-industrial period (1850-1900). This would make 2024 the twelfth year in succession that temperatures will have reached at least 1.0°C above pre-industrial levels. The Met Office’s Dr