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So what happened to our summer?
Our Chief Scientist Professor Dame Julia Slingo OBE FRS reflects on this summer’s weather and what has influenced it: No-one can deny that we have had a pretty disappointing summer with a lot of unsettled weather and only a few … Continue reading
Posted in Met Office News
Tagged climate, climate change, climate science, cold, dry, England, global warming, heatwave, heavy rain, Jet stream, Met Office, Met Office Hadley Centre, rain, rainfall, record, severe weather, Storm, storms, summer, temperature, UK, weather, weather forecast, weather forecasting, wet, wind
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Met Office in the Media – 7 August 2015
An article published today makes a number of claims about Met Office weather and climate science. It would be difficult to cover all the points raised in this blog, but here we look at the science and facts behind a … Continue reading
Met Office scientists to feature in BBC Horizon programme ‘Global Weirding’
BBC Horizon will broadcast ‘Global Weirding’ on BBC Two tonight at 9pm, exploring the science behind why the world’s weather seems to be getting more extreme and if these patterns are a taste of what is to come. Horizon say: “Something … Continue reading
Met Office in the Media: 20 March 2012
There has been widespread coverage of a scientific paper detailing an update to the joint Met Office Hadley Centre and University of East Anglia, HadCRUT global temperature dataset. The paper is published in the Journal of Geophysical Research. Compiled from temperature observations … Continue reading
Has spring sprung?
This week temperatures are forecast to reach 16 °C, the mildest of the year so far. This is unseasonably warm for February, which usually reaches highs of around 8 °C on average. So is this the first sign of spring? Meteorologically speaking, no. … Continue reading
Posted in Met Office in the Media
Tagged Equinox, Met Office Hadley Centre, meterology, spring, UK, weather
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What’s bringing the cold weather to Europe and the UK?
The current cold weather across Europe is in sharp contrast to the mild, wet and windy conditions across much of Europe through December and January. The cause of the cold conditions is the development of a large ‘blocking’ anticyclone over … Continue reading
Posted in Met Office News
Tagged Arctic Oscillation, Block (meteorology), cold, Europe, freezing weather, global temperatures, ice, Jet stream, Met Office, Met Office Hadley Centre, National Severe Weather Warning Service, Russia, snow, sudden stratospheric warming, weather, weather forecasting
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Met Office in the Media: 29 January 2012
Today the Mail on Sunday published a story written by David Rose entitled “Forget global warming – it’s Cycle 25 we need to worry about”. This article includes numerous errors in the reporting of published peer reviewed science undertaken by the Met … Continue reading
Climate change and extreme weather
As the first week of COP17 in Durban draws to a close Peter Stott, Head of Climate Monitoring and Attribution at the Met Office Hadley Centre was interviewed by OneWorld TV about how our climate is changing today and what … Continue reading
Posted in Met Office in the Media, Met Office News
Tagged Africa, climate change, cop17, durban, food security, Met Office Hadley Centre, regional projections, UNFCCC
Met Office in the Media: 01 July 2011
The Independent has today reported about a partnership between the Met Office and NCAR and other leading climate scientists to investigate exceptional weather events to see whether they can be attributable to global warming caused by greenhouse gas emissions. In ‘Extreme … Continue reading
Posted in Met Office in the Media
Tagged climate change, environment, Met Office, Met Office Hadley Centre, weather
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Met Office Chief Scientist nominated for Public Servant of the Year in Women in Public Life Awards
Prof. Julia Slingo OBE has been nominated for Public Servant of the Year in Women in Public Life Awards 2011. Her citation from the Women in Public Life Awards says: ‘Professor Julia Slingo OBE is widely recognised as a world-leading scientist … Continue reading
