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• Early end of July statistics

  pushed the level of actual rainfall received in the whole region to 21.0mm – only the eighth driest on record. Dr Mark McCarthy, Manager of the Met Office National Climate Information Centre, said: “The UK experienced its hottest ever May this year, and its second hottest June. For a large part

• UK on track for one of its warmest summers on record

  Provisional statistics from the Met Office show that summer 2025 is shaping up to be one of the warmest on record.

  . Climate change is also playing a role, with the UK warming at a rate of approximately 0.25°C per decade. 2023, 2022 and 2018 are among the UK’s top ten warmest summers in records back to 1884. 

• The Terra Nova expedition of 1911 - 1912

  . An important part of their investigations was to make a detailed record of the weather and climate and to this end Scott appointed a team of meteorologists led by George Simpson, nicknamed 'Sunny Jim' because of his resemblance to the character on 'Force' cereal packets. Whilst the main party was based

• Decadal forecast 2016

  Outlook for global climate in the coming years

  ), which makes 2016 one of the warmest two years on record Introduction Decadal forecasts are designed to predict fluctuations in the climate system over the next few years. They take into account natural variability as well as human influences. This is achieved by initialising climate models

• Decadal forecast 2019

  Outlook for global climate in the coming years

  in the climate system, including longer term shifts in both the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) and Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO), are also contributing. Near record temperatures are predicted during the coming five years, consistent with the 2020 Met Office annual global temperature

• PowerPoint Presentation

  in the 2020s, international efforts to try and reach global agreement and reduce greenhouse gas emissions have been largely ineffective. Because of climate change, extreme rainfall events are now 40% more intense on average than at the start of the century and records are being broken regularly. Due

• Briefing on Arctic & Antarctic sea ice - August 2026

  Summary Arctic sea ice extent is currently 9th lowest on record for the time of year, at 7.02 million sq km on 2nd August Extent was exceptionally low in the Kara Sea, and well below average in the remainder of the marginal seas bordering the Atlantic Ocean as well as the Siberian coastal seas

• An early look at the July statistics: just how dry has it been?

  Early provisional Met Office statistics, covering the period up to and including 30 July, show that both England and Wales are on course to record their driest July in 190 years, with several counties across England having seen less than 1mm of rainfall during the entire month so far. With more

• Amber warning extended, though heatwave easing for some

  on the day Andy Page said: “Friday marks the peak of the heatwave in terms of temperatures and the third consecutive day of record-breaking June heat. “This exceptional heat has been unprecedented for June and is another marker on how climate change is shifting the dial on temperature extremes

• What can the world expect from the developing El Niño?

  between El Niño and a colder than average end to winter in northwest Europe. Global temperature The last major El Niño spanned 2015 and 2016, and the second year of the event remains the hottest year on record. Jeff Knight is the Met Office’s manager of Climate Variability Modelling. He said