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Following yesterday’s exceptionally hot weather, provisional figures received by the Met Office today could challenge the UK’s highest temperature on record.
July temperature. Dr Mark McCarthy from the National Climate Centre (NCIC) at the Met Office said: “As the official source of meteorological statistics for the UK, we take the quality of our recordings very seriously. We are talking about a potential new record for the highest temperature recorded
reasons. Firstly, it was notable that this record had held for such a long period of time even within a changing climate, so studying the previous chance of this record being exceeded provided useful context to the present-day record. Secondly, because of the rapid nature of the study a method
. Forecasting snow in the UK is often tricky, as we’re surrounded by water. To forecast snow, meteorologists need to know where the source air is from, have very heavy precipitation and have warm air meeting cold air. UK weather records can be broken down by nation and month on our climate extremes page
weather, ice and snow. Met Office observations show a generally warming trend for UK winters. Six of the ten warmest UK winters on record have occurred after 2007. Despite a warming trend for winter, the UK’s variable climate continues to allow cold conditions. 2010 is the only winter since 2000
, linked to the warming of the globe over this period. Did climate change play a part in the record rainfall? Overall, this implies that climate change played a secondary role in making winter 2013-14 as wet as it was, providing about 10-15% of the excess rainfall. The very wet conditions in the UK were
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As the UK continues to experience more frequent and intense heatwaves, it’s worth reflecting on some of the most prolonged periods of high temperatures recorded across the country.
In the UK, a heatwave is officially defined when a location records at least three consecutive days with daily maximum temperatures meeting or exceeding the heatwave temperature threshold. This threshold varies by county, reflecting the diverse climate across the UK. Originally, these thresholds
2021 has been less of a record-breaker than 2020, but there has still been plenty of notable weather.
, thanks to unusually warm summer and autumn seasons, including its highest temperature on record, set during July. North-western parts of the UK have seen sunshine statistics well above average, and rainfall well below average. Regional variation Mike Kendon is from the Met Office National Climate
Climate statistics from 2024 show the UK is heading outside of the 'envelope of historical weather observations'.
2024 was provisionally the fourth warmest year on record for the UK, in a series from 1884. With a mean temperature of 9.78C (0.64C above the 1991-2020 average) it follows 2022, 2023 and 2014 as (provisionally) the fourth warmest year for the UK according to mean temperature. All top 10 warmest
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