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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

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

This is the message from the Department of Transport and the Met Office. Today (Monday 1 December 2025), on the first day of meteorological winter, the recent cold weather reminds us of the importance of preparing for winter hazards. But, with winters becoming wetter overall, hazards

Exceptionally wet weather - November 2012 A sequence of heavy rainfall events in late November 2012 resulted in one of the wettest weeks in England in the last 50 years. The rain was due to a series of low pressure systems crossing the UK. Individually, each of these events was not exceptional

Summary Arctic sea ice extent for September 2024 was joint-4th lowest on record. Areas of moderately low ice extent were evenly spread over most of the Arctic, though a small area of isolated ice survived in the Chukchi Sea Summer Arctic weather was warm early in the season but cool later