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• Deep Dive: Understanding this winter’s remarkably persistent weather pattern

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• Storm Dave in context: How the storm unfolded

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• 2024: provisionally the fourth warmest year on record for the UK

  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

• Glastonbury Festival Weather: A look back at historic extremes

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• Met Office deep dive: a change in the weather and a look back at summer

  the year 2000, a clear sign of the UK’s changing and warming climate. Why was this summer so warm? Several factors contributed to the exceptional warmth of summer 2025. June and July both saw above-average temperatures, with England recording its warmest June on record. Four widespread heatwaves were

• High risk of unprecedented rainfall

  1 in 3 chance of a new monthly rainfall record in at least one region each winter.

  demonstrated that, even with the current climate, it is likely that there will be one or more monthly regional rainfall record events, in the coming decade. This new use for Met Office computer simulations could also be applied to assess other risks such as heatwaves, droughts, and cold spells and could help

• A Pacific flip triggers the end of the recent slowdown

  After three record years for global temperatures, the recent slowdown in average global temperature has ended.

  at near record levels throughout, variations in decadal climate in the Pacific led to the slowdown in the rise of Global Mean Surface Temperature. The Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) – a pattern of warm and cool phases in Pacific sea-surface temperature – can persist for a decade or more. Coinciding

• Study examines drivers of 2018 UK summer heatwave

  A paper published in the Royal Meteorological Society’s journal Weather later today [Thursday 7 November 2019] looks at the drivers of last year’s UK heatwave, which led to the joint warmest summer on record (along with 2006).

  temperatures close to the UK - resulted in the extended spell of hot and sunny weather. However, the observed record-breaking temperatures for the summer overall could not be fully explained by these conditions alone, and also needed to factor in additional warming from climate change. Dr Mark McCarthy

• How exceptional were UK summer 2026 daily temperatures?

  is a record event with nine days above 35°C – almost double the previous record set in 2020. Comparing with our UNSEEN estimate suggests that experiencing nine days over 35°C is approximately a 1% chance in any given year under current climate conditions. This is often described as a “1-in-100 year

• How wind speeds are measured by the Met Office

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