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• Adapting for tomorrow, now

  2023 The evidence of climate change can be seen all around us. Globally, 2022 was the sixth warmest year in a series stretching back to 1850, according to Met Office figures. Sea levels have risen by 20cm since the early 20th century, ocean heat content is at record levels and the Antarctic sea ice

• metoffice_weatherwarriors_ukweatherandclimatequiz_presentation_firstexplorations_22-04.pdf

  UK weather and climate quiz First explorations Icebreaker quiz Weather and climate change in the UK 1. What is weather? 2. What types of severe weather do we get in the UK? 3. What was the coldest recorded temperature in the UK? What was the hottest? • Answers in Celsius, you get 5 degrees

• 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

• 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

• False autumn: Why leaves are falling before summer officially ends?

  climate.  Why was this summer so warm and what does it mean for our trees? 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 driven by persistent high

• 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

• Deep dive: Storm Floris, tropical developments and a warming summer

  a closer look at July’s climate statistics and what they mean for the summer as a whole. Storm Floris brings record-equalling gusts Storm Floris has now moved away from the UK, but its effects were widely felt. An unseasonably deep area of low pressure, Floris swept across the country, particularly

• Met Office deep dive: Why the UK’s weather is turning colder and wetter

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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

• Signs of warmer weather on the way?

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