Author Archives: Met Office Press Office

Felicity Liggins, Education Outreach Manager  The Met Office Education Outreach team delivers in in-person and virtual events all over the UK and beyond. One of the best things about these events are the brilliant questions young people ask us. Alongside the queries about extreme weather … Continue reading →

With the recent COP26 focussing heavily on the chances of keeping global temperature rise below 1.5°C, it might be easy to forget that we are still committed to further climate change and a resulting increase in the frequency and intensity … Continue reading →

 The current Three-Month Outlook covers the early winter period of November to January. It is not a daily weather forecast but instead focuses on the likely chance of the average temperature and rainfall amounts occurring during the three month period. … Continue reading →

The Met Office and the University of Exeter have signed a landmark collaboration agreement at COP26, formally committing to further grow the work of the Joint Centre for Excellence in Environmental Intelligence. The agreement sees the continuation of the Joint … Continue reading →

October 2021 was a warm and wet month for the UK, with a typically autumnal mix of weather types with warm spells, frequent showers and some persistent heavy rain. That is according to provisional figures released by the Met Office.   UK mean temperatures have been 1.4°C … Continue reading →

In coming weeks you can expect to hear more in the media about the impacts on the UK’s late autumn and winter weather emanating from La Niña: part of a pattern of climate variability in the tropical Pacific. Seasoned climate … Continue reading →

Climate change is making some forms of extreme weather events, such as heatwaves and heavy rainfall, more frequent and more intense. Communities affected by those events inevitably suffer economic, social and societal impacts. The rising number of extreme weather events … Continue reading →

As the second phase of the Weather and Climate Information Services for Africa (WISER) Programme comes to a close, Met Office WISER Programme Manager Kate Ferguson gives an overview of the achievements and learnings from the programme. I first wrote … Continue reading →