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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

with a trend towards wetter winters in the UK. Winters are expected to feature more days with significant rainfall, particularly in western regions.  Attribution studies across the UK and Europe have linked several record-breaking rainfall events to the influence of human-induced climate change. While

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Further information about the UK gridded climate datasets.

Duration Recorded by Campbell–Stokes and Automatic Sensors' (Published as National Climate Information Centre Memorandum no. 27 (2011). National Meteorological Library: Exeter, UK). How are the monthly wind statistics calculated? The standard exposure for wind sensors is at 10 m above ground

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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For the first time on record temperatures in the UK have exceeded 40°C.

A provisional temperature of 40.3°C was recorded at Coningsby at 15:12 yesterday (19 July) which, if confirmed, will beat the previous record of 38.7°C set in 2019 by 1.5°C. With temperatures continuing to climb through the afternoon we will have to wait to see what the new record will actually