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• Reflecting on an historic spell for weather and climate

  extreme hot spell were the overnight temperatures which also broke previous records by a large margin with Kenley Airfield, Greater London recording a minimum of 25.8°C beating the previous record by 1.9°C “At country and regional level the previous two days has also seen Wales and Scotland produce

• pollen-count-datasheet.pdf

  and Archive team under an Open Government License (OGL) Recording sites Locations covered are: Belfast Exeter London (King’s College) Cardiff Invergowrie (East Scotland) Plymouth Chester Ipswich Worcester East Riding (Yorkshire) Isle of Wight York Eskdalemuir (South West Scotland) Leicester Please

• Met Office Climate Programme delivered almost £2 billion in economic value for the UK

  and the continuing work of the HCCP enables local and national governments and industries to make informed decisions that future-proof the UK's infrastructure and economic assets. This analysis was commissioned by the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) and carried out by London Economics and Frazer Nash Consultancy, contributing to the findings of a wider economic analysis of the Met Office published in September 2024.  

• Climate change made severe UK fires in 2022 six times more likely

  That summer saw temperatures in this country hit 40°C for the first time and left firefighters stretched, with London Fire Brigade having its ‘busiest day since the Second World War’. The study, involving the Met Office, UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology and University of Exeter, highlights how

• Beast from the East February/March 2008

  lake in a London park. There was severe travel disruption with roads closed and numerous road traffic collisions. Cars were stranded overnight on many roads in both Scotland and England. Rail services were cancelled and air transport was severely disrupted. Thousands of schools across England, Wales

• A record-breaking Bank Holiday weekend?

  Summer Bank Holiday Monday.” The current highest temperature on record for the UK during the Late Summer Bank holiday weekend is 31.5˚C recorded at Heathrow, London in 2001, for Northern Ireland is 27˚C recorded in Knockareven, Co. Fermanagh in 2003 and for Wales is 27.3˚C at Velindre, Powys in 2003

• Prolonged rain triggers series of rainfall warnings

  than average over the weekend, especially across parts of eastern and southern England. There is potential for sheltered locations north of London to even reach 17.0 C over the weekend. The higher temperatures are expected to remain into next week, but these will be accompanied by unsettled

• NCIC Monthly Summary

  was near average in some western areas, but well above average further east, with over 200% of normal for London and the south-east and also parts of Aberdeenshire and Moray. Sunshine was particularly low for much of England and Wales, with only the south of Northern Ireland and the Isle of Man

• mwr_2025_07_for_printpdf

  being evacuated. Meanwhile a wildfire in Dagenham, east London on the 15th saw further house evacuations with around eight hectares of land scorched, according to local Fire and Rescue service reports. The 12th saw temperatures reaching 33C in Cardiff and on the same day there were reports of the heat

• mwr_2025_07_for_print.pdf

  being evacuated. Meanwhile a wildfire in Dagenham, east London on the 15th saw further house evacuations with around eight hectares of land scorched, according to local Fire and Rescue service reports. The 12th saw temperatures reaching 33C in Cardiff and on the same day there were reports of the heat