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• Storm Bert in the news

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• Has it been an unusually cold start to March?

  -versa. Indeed, statistically it is marginally more likely to snow in March than it is in December in the UK. Comparisons of temperature You don’t have to look back too far in the observational record to find a similar start to March, as Dr Mark McCarthy from the Met Office National Climate Information

• Microsoft Word - 2024_04_storm_kathleen.docx

  with several more powerful April storms in the observational record, including 1 April 1994, 11 April 1989 and 2 April 1973. (6 and 7 April 2024 storm Kathleen highlighted in orange). Author: Mike Kendon, Met Office National Climate Information Centre Last updated 01/05/2024

• El Niño declared for 2026 as Pacific warms

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  2011. However, none of these compare with the Boxing Day storm of 1998 or the Burns Day storm of 1990 – two of the most severe and damaging storms in observational records. Overall, what the observations do clearly show is storms of the severity of Éowyn are to be expected as part of the UK’s climate on a reasonably regular basis. Mike Kendon, Met Office National Climate Information Centre Last updated 30/01/2025

• Decadal forecast

  Outlook for global climate in the coming years

  of greenhouse gases. However, other changes 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,  although La Niña

• Microsoft Word - 2026_04_storm_dave_1.docx

  at this station in a 30-year record. A number of other stations also recorded their highest April wind gust on record. For the UK overall, based on the number of stations exceeding gusts of 50Kt (58mph) or 60Kt (69mph), this was the most severe April windstorm since storm naming was introduced

• Was summer 2018 the hottest on record?

  Having further assessed the temperature data for the UK as a whole for summer 2018 the figures are so close that we are declaring it as the joint hottest on record together with 2006, 2003 and 1976.

  The margin between the mean temperatures at the top of the league tables (records dating back to 1910) is so small, at around 0.03 of a degree, that it is impossible to separate the years. Usually we will only quote statistics to the nearest 0.1C as differences smaller than this could result from

• Deep Dive: UK heat and tropical cyclones

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