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active Atlantic hurricane season ahead? Author: Press Office 27 May 2022 The Atlantic hurricane season – which runs from June to November – is most likely to be above average for tropical cyclone activity according to the latest seasonal prediction from the Met Office. The forecast for the coming

Seasonal Assessment – Summer 2023 The following represents a provisional assessment of the weather experienced across the UK during summer 2023 (June, July and August) and how it compares with the 1991 to 2020 average. Overall, this was a warm and rather wet summer. The lion's share of fine weather

. The winter so far has been milder than average, with a mixture of settled spells and wetter weather. December began rather unsettled and cold, a period which included Storm Barra, then after a quieter spell it became unsettled again for Christmas week and the first ten days of January. The last day of 2021

so far has been warmer than average, with mean temperatures more than 1.5 °C above normal over the majority of the UK. There have been few cold days so far this autumn, and frosts have been few. Much of the country has been rather wetter than average, though some places have been slightly drier

spells of settled weather were short-lived, with only parts of north-west Scotland having been drier than average, and southern areas had been quite wet with relatively little sunshine, but the second half of May was much drier and sunnier. Porthmadog (Gwynedd) reached 25.1 °C on May 30th

and eastern areas, with only a few western counties exceeding the average, giving a UK-wide figure of 76% of average. July was notably dry in many areas; some locations in the south-east had very little rain all month, whereas the far north-west of Scotland was slightly wetter than average

warmer than average, with mean temperatures more than 1.5 °C above normal over northern areas of the UK but closer to average in southernmost counties. The south-east of England has been particularly wet, though Wales, northern England, Scotland and Northern Ireland have all been drier than average

. The winter so far has been slightly colder than average, with an alternation between cold, settled spells and milder, wetter weather. The first half of December was fine and settled but increasingly cold, with Braemar (Aberdeenshire) recording a low of -17.3 °C on the 13th, followed by a rapid transition

above normal over parts of western Scotland but barely above average in southern and south-eastern counties of England. The south-east of England, as well as being coolest relative to average, was particularly wet, with almost double the average rainfall in a few places, though Wales, northern England