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April's lowest average minimum temperatures since 1922

UPDATE: This release has now been updated to reflect the full provisional figures for the month of April.  Provisional figures from the Met Office’s National Climate Information Centre indicate that April had the third lowest average UK minimum temperature for the month since records began in 1884

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was the coldest recorded temperature in the UK? What was the hottest? • yAnswers in Celsius, you get 5 degrees on either side • yBonus points if you can say where it was and which decade it was in! 4. What is climate change? 5. What kinds of things do scientists predict will happen in the UK as a result

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New global record ‘likely’ within five years

Latest predictions suggest that Earth’s global average temperature is likely to reach record warmth during the five-year period 2020-2024.

The current warmest year on record is 2016, but the latest forecast based on Met Office computer models suggest a new annual record is likely within the next five years. Individual years from 2020 to 2024 are predicted to be between 1.06 °C and 1.62 °C above pre-industrial conditions

How have daily temperatures shifted in the UK’s changing climate?

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Holly Titchner

Holly develops observations of sea ice concentration for use in climate research.

that it can be used for climate studies. She is also developing uncertainty estimates for the data. Holly is always on the look out for extra sources of sea ice observations, particularly in the Antarctic prior to 1979, when the satellite record begins. Career background Holly has worked on observations

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Record breaking rainfall - for some

north Scotland climate region having just 69% of the seasonal average (364.1mm). In comparison to the rainfall distribution in 2000 when many Autumn records were set, this Autumn’s highest rainfall accumulations were very focused in the East Midlands. In 2000 the highest totals affected much

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2020 set to extend series of Earth’s warmest years

The Met Office annual global temperature forecast for 2020 suggests that next year will once again extend the series of the earth’s hottest years, since records began in 1850.

The series of warmest years began in 2015; the first year when global temperatures exceeded 1.0 °C above the pre-industrial period (1850-1900). 2020 projected to be another warm year The warmest year on record was in 2016, when significant El Niño-related warming in the tropical Pacific boosted

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September 2019 Met Office Hadley Centre Climate Briefing Note How is sea ice affected by climate change? • Arctic sea ice September extent has declined by about 12% per decade since satellite records began in 1979. Research suggests this decline is unprecedented in at least the last 1000 years

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