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A wet and dull April
It will be no surprise for many to hear that April 2024 has been a wet month. In what has felt like an unsettled spring so far, the UK has had its sixth wettest April since the series began in … Continue reading
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Tagged climate, Met Office, monthly statistics, rain, rainfall, sunshine, temperature, UK, weather
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Wildlife banking on a warm spring
Today (1 March 2024) is the first day of meteorological spring. We cannot yet guarantee exactly what this spring will bring, but wildlife will be betting on another warm one, writes Grahame Madge – a Met Office climate spokesman and … Continue reading
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Tagged Biodiversity, climate change, Met Office, nature's calendar, phenology, spring, Stone-curlew, temperature, UK, weather
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How have daily temperatures shifted in the UK’s changing climate?
A new visualisation of Met Office data lays bare the changing climate of the UK using daily temperature data since 1960. Data shows a 26% increase in above average temperature days (1991-2020) when compared to the climate baseline period of … Continue reading
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Tagged climate change, Met Office, temperature
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May 2023: a record for UK sea-surface temperature says Met Office chief scientist
The North Atlantic, including around the UK has been experiencing record-breaking temperatures. Professor Stephen Belcher is the Met Office Chief Scientist. He said: “May 2023 has seen the highest temperatures of any May since 1850. But it doesn’t stop here. … Continue reading
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Tagged climate change, marine heatwave, Met Office, sea surface temperature, temperature
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Climate monitoring through historical data
It is mid July 2022. We are currently experiencing a significant – at the time of writing provisionally record-breaking – heatwave for the UK. Red weather warnings for extreme heat are in force for large parts of England and forecasts … Continue reading
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Tagged climate change, climate monitoring, heatwave, Met Office, temperature
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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
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Tagged Met Office, Met Office National Climate Information Centre, National Sheep Association, RHS, snow, spring, temperature, weather, weather forecast, weather forecasting
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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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Weather Statistics for September
Looking back at September as a whole it turned out to be a fairly average month, although there were a few notable events. For the first time in 4 years we saw temperatures reach 30 degrees and a few long … Continue reading
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Tagged MetOffice, rain, September, statistics, Sun, sunshine, temperature, weather
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A local look at the record-breaking Spring and May weather
Both the month of May and the full spring season have been exceptional for the UK, as outlined in our recent news release. In this blog we look at the local detail of what has been an exceptionally sunny and … Continue reading
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Tagged Jet stream, Met Office, Met Office Hadley Centre, rain, spring, temperature
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My career in climate
Sir David Attenborough looks at the science of and potential solutions to climate change in a new BBC Documentary (broadcast 9pm Thurs 18 April 2019). Met Office climate scientist Professor Peter Stott appears in the programme and also supported the … Continue reading
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Tagged BBC, climate, climate change, climate science, extreme weather, global temperature, Met Office Hadley Centre, statistics, temperature
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