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, and winds gusted over 60 mph in some places, with brighter showery weather following from the west. Wales diary of highlights October was a generally cloudy and wet month with near-average temperatures, and the last third of the month was particularly wet and windy. It was briefly settled

and sunny early, record breaking rainfall High pressure, noticeable by its absence during the summer months, made a brief appearance at the end of August before moving away north on the 1st, not only taking the very warm late summer temperatures with it, high 20s Celsius in the south and east, 30.1deg C

of England, including London. England diary of highlights Much of the month was fine and settled, though with some wetter days. It was briefly very warm around the 7th and 8th, and the rest of the month was rather warm for much of the time before a marked change to chilly and wet weather arrived

, and showers developed across the north-west in the afternoon, turning thundery over the northwest Highlands and the Moray Firth. 19th to 25th A spell of wet and windy weather set in. The 19th had a foggy start in the north and east, with showers briefly developing across the Central Belt, and patchy

. This multi-hazard event brought a prolonged spell of damaging winds, as well as significant rain, and saw the first red warning issued since Storm Isha in January 2024. Following the storm, high pressure briefly settled over the UK, bringing calmer and colder conditions, particularly in Scotland

months, made a brief appearance at the end of August before moving away north on the 1st, not only taking the very warm late summer temperatures with it, high 20s Celsius in the south and east, 30.1deg C in Cambridge, but also allowing the first of many depressions to influence the weather over

, they provide bolder probabilities and therefore potentially richer information for users. The project is also introducing training for national meteorological services to digitise and assess past forecasts. “Once you’ve digitised previous forecasts, you can compare with observations and assess

cloud until midday. Do you really have to go at 0800UTC? Consider the duration of your flight, weather improvement times and the length of remaining daylight and good conditions. The flight should only be started once you are confident that en-route conditions are safe, and you should make regular

at the equator. Tropical cyclone forecast verification - measures of error Advisory positions from RSMCs La Réunion and Nadi, Fiji, Bureau of Meteorology, Australia and JTWC Hawaii are used as verifying observations of storm location. Best track data from these centres will be obtained once they become

leading to extreme late winter warmth over Eurasia and a supercharged stratospheric polar vortex leading to persistence into spring.  Once the higher than normal temperatures were established reduced ice and snow only exacerbate the warmth. Global temperatures for 2020 from January to the end of May