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• england-and-wales-drought-2010-to-2012---met-office.pdf

  spring of 2011 had adverse effects on agriculture and the environment, with eastern counties worst affected. Conditions were difficult for both livestock farmers and growers. River and groundwater levels became very low, resulting in widespread environmental impacts. During May 2011, wild fires

• Changing climate brings impacts for hay fever sufferers

  pollen counts. Conversely, very dry weather in spring suppresses pollen production in grasses, reducing the potential, and very hot and dry weather actually prevents grasses from growing at all. For tree pollen, the production occurs in the catkins in the previous summer and if June and July are very

• What’s the pollen forecast this year?

  . After the wettest March in over 40 years for England and Wales, some are now wondering what the weather we’ve seen so far could mean for the release of pollen this year, with ‘very high’ forecasts for tree pollen already for some areas of the UK. What’s the pollen outlook? The majority of hay fever

• What do we mean by a climate tipping point?

  or the Amazon rainforest. The resulting socio-economic impacts could be very large, and crossing of one tipping point may then make others more likely to be crossed. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) AR6 Synthesis Report, published in March 2023, highlights that the likelihood

• 10-day trend: Brief periods of mild, drier weather but rain on the way

  approach Christmas. Here’s a detailed look at what to expect, based on the latest 10-day forecast. A very active jet stream driving unsettled weather The dominant feature influencing the UK’s weather is a notably active jet stream stretching across the Atlantic. This powerful ribbon of wind is being

• Our changing weather patterns: a tale of abrupt transitions

  , with a major change from the end of this week and beyond as very cold air from Scandinavia floods south into the UK. We can project these extremes onto large-scale weather patterns: with high pressure towards Greenland; low pressure over Scandinavia; and low pressure occasionally stretching across the UK

• Memo

  ; progress towards a sustainable funding model for the Met Office Hadley Centre; very strong performance of the Met Office Business Group; agreement to form an Environmental Futures and Big Data hub in collaboration with the University of Exeter; the start of the winter season’s services; positive

• Microsoft Word - 2023_11_storms_elin_fergus.docx

  , Suffolk, Lancashire, Cheshire, Merseyside and West Yorkshire recorded their highest December gusts since a major winter storm on 5 December 2013. Storms Elin and Fergus formed part of an ongoing sequence of very wet weather to affect the UK, The map below shows rainfall accumulations from 7 to 11

• July so far, warm south east and cooler north west

  respectively. Despite recent thundery downpours in some parts of the UK, rainfall totals are fairly unremarkable for this point in the month across the UK, with most regions recording close to the average. The complexity of thundery weather systems mean that only very small areas will see the peak

• Met Office daily weather: Shifting conditions and regional contrasts

  through the morning and into the afternoon. Some of these may become locally moderate, and very isolated heavy downpours are possible later in the day. Elsewhere across the UK, it will be a dry day with variable cloud and bright or sunny spells. READ MORE: Met Office 10-day trend: Stormy conditions