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• New official highest temperature in UK confirmed

  A recording of 38.7°C at Cambridge Botanic Garden on Thursday 25 July has become the highest temperature officially recorded in the UK.

  high temperatures gripped large parts of central and western Europe last week, the UK joins Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands in breaking national temperature records.   The recording was taken at the University of Cambridge Botanic Garden - which houses a Met Office climate observation site

• seasonal-assessment---summer24pdf

  average and thunderstorms across southern England. The second week of August saw the highest temperature of the year so far, 34.8°C, recorded in Cambridge. On the 22 nd , the 12 th named storm of the 2023/24 season, Storm Lilian, arrived and brought strong winds and heavy rain to northern England

• Andy Samuel appointed to Met Office board

  and storage, hydrogen, and offshore wind energy. Andy serves on a number of boards and helps companies formulate and deliver on their energy transition strategies and projects.  He co-chaired the Aberdeen Maggie’s cancer charity for five years. He holds an MA in Natural Sciences from Cambridge University

• Study examines drivers of 2018 UK summer heatwave

  of 38.7 °C at Cambridge University Botanic Gardens on July 25. The paper has been published in the Royal Meteorological Society journal Weather and can be read here.

• Statistics for April 2017

  nights later in the month pulled the night time temperatures closer to average. The coldest night reaching -6.2°C (Cromdale, Moray 18 April 2017), April has been a warmer than average month. On 9 April 25.5°C was recorded at Cambridge, the warmest day of the year so far. Overall the UK mean temperature

• SOAerosol_SeamlessModelling_Bristol_05062025.pptx

  , climate feedbacks, and climate sensitivity, in Climate change 2021: The physical science basis. Contribution of working group I to the sixth assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Cambridge, UK: Classification: Cambridge In-Confidence University Press: 923–1054

• Chances of 40°C days in the UK increasing

  recorded in the UK is 38.7°C set in Cambridge in July 2019. This prompts the question of whether exceeding 40°C is now within the possibilities of the UK climate. High emmissions scenario The study suggests the current chance of seeing days above 40°C is extremely low, however by 2100 under a high

• ukcp18_factsheet_sea_level_rise_storm_surge_supp_data_mar23.pdf

  . Goldfarb, M.I. Gomis, M. Huang, K. Leitzell, E. Lonnoy, J.B.R. Matthews, T.K. Maycock, T. Waterfield, O. Yelekçi, R. Yu, and B. Zhou (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press. In Press Fung F, Palmer M, Howard T, Lowe J, Maisey P and Mitchell JFB (2018). UKCP18 Factsheet: Sea Level Rise and Storm Surge, Met

• ukcp18_factsheet_sea_level_rise_storm_surge_supp_data_mar23pdf

  . Goldfarb, M.I. Gomis, M. Huang, K. Leitzell, E. Lonnoy, J.B.R. Matthews, T.K. Maycock, T. Waterfield, O. Yelekçi, R. Yu, and B. Zhou (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press. In Press Fung F, Palmer M, Howard T, Lowe J, Maisey P and Mitchell JFB (2018). UKCP18 Factsheet: Sea Level Rise and Storm Surge, Met

• Thunderstorm warnings – August 2020

  °C was recorded on Saturday,  and 34°C was recorded on Sunday.  Highest temperature on record The highest temperature on record for the UK was 38.7°C, recorded at Cambridge Botanic Garden on the 25th July last year. While the hottest August day on record is 38.5C recorded at Faversham on 10th August