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and how they’re recorded Author: Press Office 18 July 2022 Here at the Met Office we have been collecting weather observations since we were founded, and the earliest daily temperature data we have in our digital climate database is from 1853. However, there are a number of elements to verify

waters cannot be ruled out as an additional cause of the very low extent of 2023. The precise contribution of anthropogenic (human-caused) global warming to the record low sea ice of 2023 is not yet known. While climate models predict that Antarctic sea ice extent will decrease in response

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, 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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. 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

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 to appear

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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

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