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☀️ What a beautiful day, it’s also the warmest day of the year so far 🌡 . . . #loveukweather #wintersun #satelliteIt was a 🌫 foggy 🌫 start for some of us this morning – especially in the south of England. . The fog is now clearing and the rest of Friday is expected to be sunny for the vast majority! . Out of the wind and in the sunshine, it will feel spring-like as temperatures climb widely into the teens by the afternoon. Today’s hotspots will be Northern parts of Cornwall, Devon and Wales with highs of 16 Celsius in places. It will be windier, cloudier and cooler in Western Scotland and Northern Ireland. . Saturday will be dry again for most of us but there’ll be more cloud – especially in the south of England and Wales. Sunny spells will continue further north. . On Sunday, it will be windy in the west with some rain. In the east, after a sunny start, it will turn cloudier through the day but stay dry. It won’t be as mild as today but temperatures will remain above average for mid-February. . 🙏🏻 to @simplytomrice for letting us share his foggy photo of Exeter canal. . . . #fog #mist #foggy #loveukweather #photography #igdaily #photooftheday❤️ L O V E I S I N T H E A I R ❤️ . Or is it fog 🧐 . ⬇️ T O D A Y ⬇️ A sunny day in England and Wales after any early mist and fog clears. Cloudier skies at first in northern areas with patchy rain and drizzle over the hills, although gradually turning brighter through the day. Mild for most.❤️ It’s going to be a warm Valentine’s Day for much of the UK tomorrow ❤️. . We could reach 16C in northern Scotland and many places will get to 12 or 13C – which is well above the average for mid February. . But the warmest Valentine’s day on record is 19.1C recorded 21 years ago in Somerset! . . #WednesdayWisdomAn early hint of #spring? 🌸 . This week is going to be mild as temperatures reach the mid-teens in some places.Did you catch a rainbow this weekend?! 🙌🏻😍. . Here’s a UK forecast for the next 5️⃣ days.. . ⬇️ T O D A Y ⬇️ Largely dry with sunny periods. However a band of cloud and showers, initially across northern England, clearing south with any rain easing. Showers across north Scotland also fading. Cloud then thickening across northwestern parts later, with a little rain possible. . ⬇️ T O N I G H T ⬇️ Clear spells for England and Wales, with frost and fog patches possible, especially southeast. Cloudier across Scotland and Northern Ireland, with some rain, mainly northwest. Early frost possible eastern Scotland. . ⬇️ T U E S D A Y ⬇️ Mild, with sunny periods for much of Wales, and southern England. Northern parts cloudier, with outbreaks of rain spreading south and easing. Sunshine and showers follow. Windy in far north. . ⬇️ W E D N E S D A Y - F R I D A Y ⬇️ Mild, especially across some northern parts. Cloudy and windy, with some rain in the north and west, before clearing Friday. Sunny periods likely elsewhere, but also overnight fog and frost.Archives
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Monthly Archives: July 2013
Warm air to bring short hot spell
Temperatures are forecast to exceed 30 °C tomorrow in some areas with a heat health warning in place for parts of the south east. However, these high temperatures are expected to be short lived with temperatures dropping by a few degrees again over the weekend. … Continue reading
Rainfall figures for the weekend
With thundery showers bringing heavy rain, some areas saw high rainfall totals over the weekend. The wettest was Carlisle, in Cumbria, which saw 97.4 mm of rain over the last 48 hours. 48 hour rainfall totals (0900 GMT 27 July … Continue reading
Weather on the 27 July
Today marks a year since the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, so to celebrate a year since the Games, we’ve taken a look back at the weather on 27 July. The Met Office holds the UK’s weather and climate records, … Continue reading
Posted in Met Office News
Tagged climate, Met Office, news, olympics, statistics, weather
Guest blog: Stay safe this summer with Norfolk’s firefighters
With summer finally making an appearance Norfolk’s firefighters are offering some timely safety advice. Every year fire destroys thousands of acres of countryside, forestry and other wildlife habitats across the country. Some fires are started deliberately, but most could easily … Continue reading
Posted in Met Office in the Media
July starts dry, sunny and warm
Early Met Office figures for the first half of July show that it has been warmer, drier and sunnier than usual so far this month. We’ve now had 11 days with temperatures over 28 °C somewhere in the UK, making … Continue reading
Posted in Met Office News
Tagged Environment Agency, Heat, heatwave, hot weather, july, Met Office, Pollen, summer, temperature, weather
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St Swithin’s day – fact or meteorological myth?
Recently we have all been enjoying a run of prolonged, fine dry weather across much of the country. Today may be St Swithin’s day but for most of us, despite a rather cloudy and misty start across some parts, this has … Continue reading
Weather for the royal baby
Historical weather information provided by the National Meteorological Library. For more information on the weather on the day of William and Kate’s wedding, have a look at our royal wedding factsheet.
Very high levels of grass pollen forecast across much of UK
As the hot period of weather continues across most of the UK, very high levels of grass pollen are forecast. One in five people suffer from hay fever across the nation. The Met Office pollen forecast shows most parts of … Continue reading
First ‘Heat-Health’ alert of the summer
Parts of England have been put on Heat-Health alert as the hot temperatures continue into the weekend. Temperatures are expected to climb close to heatwave thresholds across the East Midlands and Yorkshire and the Humber regions during Friday and Saturday, … Continue reading
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Tagged Department for Health, heat-health alert, heatwave, Met Office, NHS, Sun, weather
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The Spectator: How accurate is the Met Office?
In an article which appeared in the Spectator online today, Rupert Darwall makes a sustained attack on climate scientists and specifically on the Met Office. His main point seems to be that the Met Office gets weather forecasts wrong. To … Continue reading
