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• Mixed bag of weather for the Easter weekend

  in from the south on Monday morning, which could bring further snow to northern hills as it heads north during the day. With such a variety of weather over the next few days Guy Barter, Chief Horticulturist at the RHS, provides some advice on how to keep your garden in the best shape: "Gardeners dread

• Twelve steps to safer driving this winter

  the length of a football pitch.   Only use your rear fog lights when visibility is significantly reduced and remember to turn them off as soon as it improves. If visibility is really limited, wind down your windows at junctions to allow you to listen out for approaching traffic. 4. Don’t rely on your

• A selection box of Easter weather

  on how to keep gardens in the best shape. Guy Barter, Chief Horticulturist at the RHS, said: “Gardeners dread spring frosts as these can nip the new flowers of fruit and other plants such as magnolias, but in many cases vulnerable flowers in the north will still be in bud, the growing season

• Adding local insight: How public observations could enhance weather station data

  Centre Climate Programme-funded project. He said: “Crowd-Grid is designed as a complementary dataset for the Met Office, including public observations of temperature to better capture those local details that may not be well represented solely by the HadUK-Grid. “For example, we all remember the day

• wiser_newsletter0721.pdf

  with a specific thematic learning focus, and a programme level lessons infographic. Sharing WISER and Met Office Kenya Partnership Impacts with President Kenyatta This week, President Kenyatta of Kenya visited the UK. During his visit, he attended an event at Kew Gardens to celebrate the Kenya-UK Year

• Why frost can still occur in late Spring

  earlier in the year. This is consistent with a warming climate. However, this does not remove the risk of late frosts altogether. In fact, they can become more problematic for gardeners and growers. Warmer springs can encourage plants and blossoms to develop earlier, leaving them more vulnerable

• Warming up for Easter

  After what has been a rather cold April so far, it’s getting warmer this week - just in time for the Easter Bank Holiday weekend.

  ) in Kew Gardens, London. Temperatures will continue to rise day by day and with the sun getting stronger at this time of year, it’s going to feel warm or very warm across much of the country this Easter weekend. “Temperatures will reach into the low 20s Celsius quite widely and there’s a good chance

• hot-dry-spell-july-2013---met-office.pdf

  to 24 July 2013 Date Daily max temperature (°C) Station 6 July 28.1 Heathrow and Kew Gardens, Greater London 7 July 29.7 Hurn, Dorset 8 July 29.9 Edenfel, Tyrone 9 July 29.3 Grangemouth Refinery, Stirling 10 July 28.5 Betws-y-Coed, Gwynedd 11 July 28.8 Castlederg, Tyrone 12 July 29.4 Auchtermuchty

• Beyond fruit and timber: the many other benefits of trees in today’s climate

  . But over time, the green cloak of oak and ash has been eroded to create space for communities and agriculture. Chris praises the recent modest increase in tree cover but he feels that targets for woodland recovery could be more ambitious with some areas in the UK having the potential to even reach

• Summer 2019 climate statistics: largely warm and wet

  Summer 2019 in the UK was record-breaking with a maximum temperature of 38.7 C at Cambridge University Botanic Garden logged on 25 July. That was the highest temperature ever recorded in the UK.

  However, one temperature record can’t tell the full story of a season overall. So how did Summer 2019 compare with previous summers? Tim Legg, of the Met Office’s National Climate Information Centre, provides more detail. He said: “Overall Summer 2019 was the twelfth warmest on record since 1910