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A recording of 38.7°C at Cambridge Botanic Garden on Thursday 25 July has become the highest temperature officially recorded in the UK.

high temperatures gripped large parts of central and western Europe last week, the UK joins Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands in breaking national temperature records.   The recording was taken at the University of Cambridge Botanic Garden - which houses a Met Office climate observation site

more than 1.0°C warmer in the last 100 years. A new course for the red admiral The striking red admiral butterfly has always been a familiar visitor to parks and gardens the length and breadth of the UK. It used to be an exclusively migratory butterfly arriving on our shores after crossing the English

of the team working on the Hadley Centre Climate Programme-funded project. He said: “Crowd-Grid is designed as a complementary dataset for the Met Office, including public observations of temperature to better capture those local details that may not be well represented solely by the HadUK-Grid

on record for the UK as a whole in a series from 1910. Many parts of southern and eastern Scotland have received over twice the normal June rainfall.   A number of Scottish counties have had their wettest June on record. Stations at both Edinburgh Botanic Gardens and RAF Leuchars, among others, have had

Agency http://floodline.sepa.org.uk/floodupdates/ Wales: Natural Resources Wales http://naturalresources.wales/flooding Prepare a flood kit of essential items such as your insurance documents, a torch, a wind-up or battery radio, warm clothing and blankets, a first aid kit and any prescription

of the current record. “Nights are also likely to be exceptionally warm, especially in urban areas. This is likely to lead to widespread impacts on people and infrastructure. Therefore, it is important people plan for the heat and consider changing their routines. This level of heat can have adverse

with a specific thematic learning focus, and a programme level lessons infographic. Sharing WISER and Met Office Kenya Partnership Impacts with President Kenyatta This week, President Kenyatta of Kenya visited the UK. During his visit, he attended an event at Kew Gardens to celebrate the Kenya-UK Year

with falling air in the atmosphere trapping warm air at the surface. By the 19th a cold front tracking from the west resulted in some thundery rain and somewhat fresher air to parts of the country. The figure below shows the Met Office red extreme heat area extending from London to Manchester and Leeds

not as intense as overnight showers. These will gradually fragment into the afternoon, spreading cloud and patchy rain into southern Scotland and northern England. Elsewhere, showers will develop more widely as temperatures rise, with some warm sunshine breaking through. Highs are expected to reach

Slow-worms at the Met Office Slow-worm A long-term resident at the Met Office, the Slow-worm is a native species to Eurasia and they are inhabitants of grasslands, scrub, woodlands and gardens. They can be found basking (warming up) under the reptile refugia that have been placed around the Met