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Climate Data Challenge – working in partnership for innovation
As Governments, organisations and individuals around the world seek to tackle the challenges of climate change, creativity and innovation are key to finding ways to improve our resilience to weather and climate. Our scientists work at the forefront of global … Continue reading
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Tagged British Red Cross, Centre for Disaster Protection, climate, climate change, climate science, Commonwealth & Development Office, Foreign, hackathon, Marine Environment Data & Information Network, Met Office, Met Office Hadley Centre, National Oceanography Centre, National Severe Weather Warning Service, Natural Environment Research Council, Ordnance Survey, Plymouth Marine Laboratory, The James Hutton Institute, UK Climate Reslience Programme, UK GBC, UK Hydrographic Office, UKRI
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Records broken as temperate end to March offsets earlier cold spell
March 2021’s overall provisional climate statistics show a 0.9°C average temperature increase from 1981-2010 national averages for the month, as some high temperatures during the latter part of the month saw several stations break their existing records for their warmest March day. Particularly low temperatures started the month for large parts of the … Continue reading
What kind of temperature swings are ‘normal’ in UK spring?
With forecasters predicting a marked shift in temperatures in the coming days, here we take a look at how commonplace temperature fluctuations are during a typical UK spring. It’s certainly not uncommon for spring in the UK to see big … Continue reading
Atmospheric carbon dioxide passing ‘gloomy’ milestone
This year the climate is passing a gloomy threshold. The concentration of carbon-dioxide in the atmosphere is reaching 417 parts per million: an increase of 50 per cent since humans embarked on the industrial revolution and began to emit greenhouse … Continue reading
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Tagged climate change, climate science, CO2, hawaii, Mauna Loa, Met Office, Met Office Hadley Centre, Richard Betts
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Did the weather fuel climate-changing forest fires in the Amazon in 2019?
In 2019 there was a sudden spike in Amazon fires that captured the world’s media attention. Between them the blazes destroyed 906,000 hectares of rainforest – an area larger than the island of Corsica. The thousands of fires produced around … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon Rainforest, climate, climate change, IUCN, Met Office, Met Office Hadley Centre, pied tamarin, rainforest, UKCEH, wildfire
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Scottish Flood Forecasting Service marks 10th Anniversary
The Scottish Flood Forecasting Service (SFFS) is today (Tuesday 9 March) marking a decade of supporting Scotland’s preparedness and response to flooding. Staffed around the clock 365 days a year, the service has been combining hydrological and meteorological data to … Continue reading
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Tagged Centre of Expertise for Waters, climate change, Met Office, Met Office Hadley Centre, National Severe Weather Warning Service, rain, rainfall, Royal Meteorological Society, Scotland, Scottish Environment Protection Agency, Scottish Flood Forecasting Service, Scottish Flood Forum, SEPA, severe weather, SFFS, weather
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Record low temperature for the UK this millennium
Overnight the recorded minimum temperature at the weather station at Braemar dropped to -23.0°C, one of three stations in the UK to dip below minus 20.0°C. With the media reporting on the ‘extreme’ conditions, we have analysed our records since … Continue reading
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Tagged climate, climate change, climate science, cold, Met Office, record, Scotland, severe weather, snow, statistics, temperature, Winter
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Multiple drivers create challenges for forecasting weather direction
How times change. This time last year, we were in the early days of a month which went on to become the wettest February for the UK in a series stretching back to 1862. Storms Ciara, Dennis and Jorge, which … Continue reading
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Tagged El Niño-Southern Oscillation, El Nino, ENSO, La Niña, Madden Julian Oscillation, Met Office, North Atlantic Oscillation, Storm Ciara, Storm Dennis, Storm Jorge, sudden stratospheric warming
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Coldest January since 2010, but not exceptional by historical standards
January, with an average temperature of 2.2 °C, has been the coldest January across the UK since 2010. In that year the average UK January temperature was 0.9 °C; the coldest January on record was 1963 with a mean temperature … Continue reading
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Tagged Met Office, Met Office Hadley Centre, Met Office National Climate Information Centre, rainfall, snow, Winter
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Why the beast from the east is unlikely to roar.
A sudden stratospheric warming high in the atmosphere early in January has led to reports a so called ‘Beast from the East’ is heading our way and speculation of extreme cold weather to come. A sudden stratospheric warming (SSW) sees … Continue reading
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Tagged Met Office, rain, severe weather, snow, sudden stratospheric warming, weather, weather forecast
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