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• Hottest July day on record for the UK

  Temperatures yesterday reached 38.1°C in southern England, setting a new record for the highest July temperature recorded in the UK.

  The new record was set in Cambridge at 15:37 on Thursday, beating the previous record of 36.7°C set in Heathrow in 2015 and coming close to the all-time UK temperature record of 38.5°C, recorded in Faversham in August 2003. Exceptionally high temperatures have gripped parts of Scotland and much

• Briefing on Arctic and Antarctic sea ice - June 2025

  Summary Arctic sea ice extent is currently well below average, the 5th lowest on record for the time of year following quite fast ice loss during May Extent is particularly low in the seas on the Atlantic side of the Arctic Winter and spring in the Arctic have been very mild, and winter Arctic sea

• Heatwave for parts of the UK this week

  Temperatures will climb through the week, potentially reaching record breaking levels by Thursday.

  bringing heavy thundery showers from the early evening and overnight as they spread north into Wales before dissipating in the early hours of Wednesday. Temperatures will remain high overnight into Wednesday, making it uncomfortable to sleep, with potentially record-breaking overnight temperatures of 24°C

• 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

• Storm Bert in the news

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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

• One in 250-year event underway high in the atmosphere

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• 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

• 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