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and climate records.  READ MORE: What are October's current weather records? If a reading doesn’t meet the required standards, it’s rejected and removed from the record. This ensures that the UK’s weather data remains trustworthy and comparable with records from around the world. What makes a good weather

A new event summary from the Met Office shows that the UK’s recent extreme heat was far more intense and widespread than previous comparable heatwaves. This was the first time 40°C has been recorded in the UK.

of long term climate records. “What’s particularly notable is how much more widespread the heat was from this event than the previous two occurrences of temperatures in excess of 38°C in the UK. Temperature records tend to get broken by modest amounts and by just a few stations, but the recent heat

• Air Quality Partnership: current lead UK Grant Awardees www.metoffice.gov.uk © Crown Copyright 2019 Met Office WP1: Monitoring, Attribution and Reanalysis • Develop a better understanding of how East Asian climate has changed over the past: • Digitisation of observations • Improving climate records

weather moves in from the west. Read more Latest 2025 is double-record breaker: UK’s warmest and sunniest year on record 2025 has broken historical climate records, with provisional Met Office figures showing it has been both the warmest and sunniest year on record for the UK. Read more Latest New

The latest data confirms 2020 concludes the earth’s warmest 10-year period on record.

nominally the second warmest year in the dataset’s record. Data from a number of climate monitoring centres including the Met Office, NASA and NOAA are compiled by scientists at the Met Office for the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) to create its central annual global mean temperature estimate

and processes them into a detailed grid at a resolution of 1km x 1km, covering every part of the UK.  Some of these records stretch all the way back to 1836, meaning almost 200 years of weather data. From rainfall to monthly temperatures, this data allows our scientists to track climate patterns

The climate guide encompasses a range of areas, from statistical records to computer model projections and climate change. Weather The Met Office provides a wide range of forecasts and warnings to help the public make informed decisions about day to day activities. These include forecasts for more than

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during hot spells and heatwaves. “Reaching 34°C during June is a rare, but not unprecedented, event in the historical climate records for the UK. But if it should happen this week it would be notable that it would have occurred on three days during the last six Junes.” The other days being 21 June

Northern Ireland had its wettest July on record in a series which dates back to 1836, according to provisional Met Office statistics.

and 176.7mm of rain respectively. Scotland had 50% more rain than average, with 155.1mm. The Met Office’s Mike Kendon, who works as part of a team that looks after the UK’s climate records, said: “It has been a significantly wet month for much of the UK; particularly for those in Northern Ireland. “The jet