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Details of the World Food Programme and Met Office study into the relationship between long-term climate change and future food security.

Download the full food security and climate change assessment for Sudan here. Sudan lies at the northern most extent of the band of tropical rains known as the Inter-tropical Convergence Zone. This means it has a strong gradient of rainfall, ranging from extremely dry conditions in the north

HadGEM1 is the first in a new generation of coupled climate models incorporating a non-hydrostatic, fully compressible, deep atmosphere formulation with a semi-implicit semi-Lagrangian time integration scheme.

Note that the most recent HadGEM model is the HadGEM3 HadGEM1 stands for the Hadley Centre Global Environment Model version 1. It was developed in 2006 and used in the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The atmospheric component has 38 levels extending

ASPIRE – Adaptive Social Protection - Information for Enhanced Resilience Overview • ASPIRE will integrate climate information into social protection decision making in the Sahel so that it can become responsive to climate shocks. For example, increasing regular cash payments to vulnerable

for it to be the warmest on record too.    From powerful winter storms and widespread snowfall, to unprecedented spring sunshine and the hottest summer on record, the past twelve months have showcased the full spectrum of the UK’s climate.  The UK’s highly variable climate means that every year is different

highest temperatures recorded in July? Author: Press Office 23 July 2025 The UK has experienced a notable shift in its climate over recent decades, with extreme heat events becoming increasingly common. In this blog, we explore the top ten hottest days recorded in the UK during July, and examine

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this? First, periods of slowing down and pauses in surface warming are not unusual in the instrumental temperature record. Second, climate model simulations suggest that we can expect such a period of a decade or more to occur at least twice per century, due to internal variability alone. Third

: Press Office 28 December 2023 With temperature and rainfall records broken, red warnings issued and a flurry of named storms, 2023 has been another eventful year of weather for the UK. While the full year’s provisional weather and climate statistics will be available on 2 January, along

The UK’s new record-high temperature of 40.3°C at Coningsby, Lincolnshire, has been confirmed by the Met Office, following a rigorous process of analysis and quality control.

reflect our weather and climate and have not been adversely influenced by other factors.   Dr Mark McCarthy of the National Climate Information Centre said: “Verification of these record-breaking temperatures confirms what we’ve been saying in the last week, that the UK exceeded 40°C for the first time