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• Climate extremes are becoming the new ‘normal’ for the UK

  was memorable for the intense drought over the spring and summer, when we saw very low river flows across the country, as well as significant impacts on water supplies, agriculture and the environment. River flows over the spring and summer approached or were lower than other recent droughts like those

• flooding-in-cumbria-december-2015---met-office.pdf

  a new record for two consecutive rain-days (0900 - 0900 GMT). Impacts The severe flooding which resulted was exacerbated by the already very wet ground conditions, partly as a result of Storm Desmond. Many parts of north-west Britain had already recorded more than twice the monthly average rainfall

• SGM_25.pptx

  cool … models are in amazing agreement, so that's nice. Data volumes Whilst our models are better and we have a lot of decision aids, that doesn't mean to say making warnings is actually easier because we have a huge amount of data to look at. Considerations Lead time There is a danger by going very

• Keith_Williams_ppt_UP.pptx

  developments to the convection and microphysics parametrizations in the Met Office model (arguably the two parametrizations there is most sensitivity to). • Development of single, seamless, cloud fraction and aerosol schemes are also very significant pieces of work which are essential for unifying our

• jesper_schou-helioseismologypdf

  in surface Doppler shift • Global mode analysis in terms of global resonant modes – Good for large scale structure and flows • Local seismology using – see next slides • Able to determine sound and flow speeds very well – E.g. solar rotation • Some sensitivity to density • Magnetic effects

• wiser0168_daraja_impact_case_study_1219.pdf

  rate. Natural population growth and huge numbers of people migrating from rural communities to towns and cities are putting tremendous pressure on urban spaces. Incoming populations often have little alternative other than to settle in informal settlements that are very likely unplanned and lack basic

• Arctic and Antarctic end of season report - October 2019

  average, but only 0.05 million square km below the long-term linear trend (Figure 1). Extent was very low in all regions of the Arctic except the Central Arctic and in the vicinity of Fram Strait (Figure 2). Figure 1. September Arctic sea ice extent during the satellite era, according to HadISST1.2

• A warm welcome for fine weather conditions next week

  week’s conditions are likely to fall just outside of official Met Office heatwave thresholds. However, this shouldn’t lead to any disappointment as many can anticipate a very fine spell of weather with temperatures reaching 27°C during the middle of the week.”  The highest recorded April

• Settled weather gives way to wind and rain

  High pressure has been dominant across the UK, bringing dry, settled weather with some sunshine for most but also some overnight frosts. However low pressure from the Atlantic will take over this week, bringing wet and at times very windy conditions. The first area of low pressure moves

• Heavy rain and thunderstorms continue

  .  An amber warning for heavy has also been issued for parts of southeast Scotland, where 80 to 100mm of rain is possible over higher ground. Further warnings for thunderstorms have been issued for parts of southeast England today.  Chief meteorologist, Dan Suri said: “It has been a very wet week for many