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to the future, climate risks threaten food and water security, health, infrastructure, and economic development. To put this into perspective, policymakers might realise that sea level rise requires more spending on flood defences, but they may not be aware that parts of a large city, such as London or New
daily temperatures and summer maximum daily temperatures through the 21 st century for Exeter, under RCP8.5 compared to a baseline period of 1981-2000. For summer rainfall in four of the seven cities (London, Exeter, Bristol and Kirklees), the v2022 projections show reduced drying compared to v2018
CITY OF LONDON CLIMATE CHANGE The Science Source: City of London 2020 How has London’s climate changed? The London climate stripes show how annual average temperature has changed since 1884, compared with a baseline average between 1981 and 2000. Tides – The River Thames is tidal and can be subject
Hot spell August 1990 At the beginning of August 1990 there was a widespread hot spell, during which a new UK temperature record was set A maximum of 37.1 °C was measured at Cheltenham on the 3rd, beating the record of 36.7 °C set at Raunds (Northamptonshire), Epsom (Surrey) and Canterbury (Kent
The VAAC London QVA API, introduced in July 2025, provides access to the Quantitative Volcanic Ash (QVA) data sets provided by the London Volcanic Ash advisory centre (VAAC).
To access the VAAC London QVA API, users must: Review the service summary. Find full details in the QVA API Licence Agreement and QVA API Standard terms and conditions. Register your acceptance of the QVA User Licence Agreement. Email [email protected] to start the registration process. The VAAC
These plots show the performance of WAFC London forecasts produced by the Met Office in the United Kingdom.
Verification statistics for World Area Forecast Centre (WAFC) London data sets are produced by the Met Office for various regions, mostly corresponding to World Meteorological Organization (WMO) CBS-defined areas for comparison between modelling centres. Area 2 covers the north Atlantic, western
High pressure will influence the UK’s weather this weekend, but what does that mean for the thousands of people running the TCS London Marathon?
After a wet start to April, where some counties have already had more than their average rainfall for the whole of the month, the weekend weather forecast is for drier, more settled weather to become dominant for much of the UK. Speaking in the Met Office’s London Marathon forecast on YouTube, Met
had already reached 32°C at JFK and Newark airports, while New York City hit 39°C, breaking its June record. This heat is being driven by a ridge in the jet stream, drawing hot, humid air north from the Gulf of Mexico. Temperatures are set to climb in the UK during the coming days but other parts
is situated within walking distance (five minutes) of Aberdeen International Airport. Aberdeen Airport itself is well linked to other Scottish regional airports and also to Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, London Heathrow, London Gatwick and London City.
change scenario and geographic location. The very likely ranges for UK capital cities at 2100 are summarised below for each scenario included in this report. Sea level change at 2100 (m) relative to 1981-2000 average RCP2.6 RCP4.5 RCP8.5 London 0.29-0.70 0.37-0.83 0.53-1.15 Cardiff 0.27-0.69 0.35-0.81
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