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hotter and drier conditions leading to reduced carbon uptake. Nevertheless, the long-term change is driven by human emissions.” CO2 measurements at Mauna Loa are taken by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, and also independently by NOAA. The future scenario limiting warming to 1.5°C long-term is the SSP1.1-9 scenario.

overall. The majority of August was unsettled and showery, though there was a drier spell later on during which it became hot especially in south-eastern areas. This summer was rather warmer than average. Apart from the first two days, much of June was relatively cool, but warm weather towards month

to rainfall patterns and rising temperatures mean that many crops don’t grow as well as they used to. More and more people are moving away from the countryside into towns and cities, as they can no longer earn money growing crops. Encourage farmers to grow crops that can cope better with less water and hotter temperatures. What else would you suggest?

persist in the sky for hours. Information released: Contrails are formed when hot aircraft exhaust emissions mix with cool, moist ambient air in the upper troposphere. Traditional forecasting methods for predicting the presence of contrails have used the tephigram, a tool for plotting the atmospheric

of Inverness and at Stonehaven in Aberdeenshire. There was widespread rainfall across the southern half of the UK on the 17th causing road closures from flooding on the 18th. Several rain-related road accidents were reported, Devon Police described four cars aquaplaning on the A38 prior to crashing

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of Inverness and at Stonehaven in Aberdeenshire. There was widespread rainfall across the southern half of the UK on the 17th causing road closures from flooding on the 18th. Several rain-related road accidents were reported, Devon Police described four cars aquaplaning on the A38 prior to crashing

were above average for the majority of the time, though nowhere reached 24 °C until May 27th. The provisional UK mean temperature for the month was 11.6 °C, which is 1.0 °C above average. Rainfall was above average in a band from Devon to Norfolk, whereas much of Wales, Scotland and north-west England

(Clwyd, 77mAMSL) -4.0°C on 2nd at Balmoral (Aberdeenshire, 283mAMSL) 12.4°C on 25th at East Malling (Kent, 33mAMSL) and Exeter Airport No 2 (Devon, 27mAMSL) -12.5°C on 3rd at Altnaharra No 2 (Sutherland, 81mAMSL) -15.1°C on 2nd at Bank Newton No 2 (North Yorkshire, 128mAMSL) 118.8mm on 16th at Kinlochewe

the UK, with more than 200% of average across the west of Northern Ireland, Lancashire, Merseyside and the Manchester area and parts of Devon, Dorset and Wiltshire. The UK overall rainfall total was 170% of average overall, making this provisionally the wettest July since 2009 and sixth wettest July