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• Global warming update as COP29 gets underway

  Meteorological Organization (WMO) publishes an update to its annual State of the Global Climate report. This year the update highlights how 2024 is on track to be the world’s hottest year on record, surpassing the previous 2023 record, with 2015-2024 also set to be the hottest decade on record

• Summer temperature 2018 – the ‘new normal’?

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• Why has it been so warm and humid recently?

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• 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

• Look out, there's a frost about

  is a member of the Met Office’s National Climate Information Centre. He said: “Detailed frost recording in the UK began in 1961. With only 11 days of frost, March 2017 was the most frost-free since March 1998. In fact, England had fewer air frosts than in any other March since records of air frost began

• Week ahead: Exceptional heat peaking midweek

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• Week ahead: Heat continues, but a gradual change later this week?

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• Bank holiday forecast: A hot and settled weekend

  records are being made globally accessible Weekly weather quiz September 12: Test your knowledge! Weekend weather: Rain, wind and September sunshine About this blog This is the official blog of the Met Office news team, intended to provide journalists and bloggers with the latest weather, climate

• Microsoft Word - 2025_02_storm_eowyn.docx

  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