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• Climate change impacting the natural world

  Office Thu 17 Jul 2025 Climate changes are affecting the timings of natural processes with many key biological events in the UK - such as leaf out and flowering - now taking place earlier (and some autumn events also later) in the year when compared with historical records. The latest edition

• mena-climate-risk-report-finalpdf

  Document history Version Purpose Date 0.1 Review 14/05/2021 1.0 Final delivery 30/07/2021 1.1 Revisions 27/10/2021 1.2 Revisions 20/10/2023 1.3 Climate analysis revisions, no socioeconomics 31/01/2025 have been updated 1.4 Review 28/02/2025 Lead authors Katy Richardson, Senior Scientist Amy Doherty

• eastern-england_-climate-met-office.pdf

  Eastern England: climate The area comprises the counties of Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, Lincolnshire, the East Riding of Yorkshire and parts of Essex and Hertfordshire The altitude of much of the area is below 60 metres and the Fens has the largest tract of low, flat land

• sahel-climate-risk-report-final.pdf

  Document history Version Purpose Date 0.1 Review 14/01/2022 1.0 Final delivery 07/02/2022 1.1 Baseline climate plot revisions 31/01/2025 Lead authors Sarah Holmes, Lead Scientist Nick Brooks, Research Officer Gabrielle Daoust, Post-doctoral Research Fellow Rebecca Osborne, Scientific Manager Hannah

• Wet and windy weekend for climate conference.

  Northern Scotland will see the strongest winds and heaviest rain, however, Glasgow, where the COP26 climate conference is underway, does not escape the unsettled weather. Bonfire Night It will be mostly dry across the UK as a whole for Friday evening, but cloudier the further north you go. A few

• Supercomputing leap in weather and climate forecasting

  Met Office and Microsoft join forces to build world’s most powerful weather and climate forecasting supercomputer in UK

  The Met Office has signed a multimillion-pound agreement with Microsoft for the provision of a world-leading supercomputing capability that will take weather and climate forecasting to the next level and help the UK stay safe and thrive, announced today on Earth Day (22 April). This new

• Up to £1.2billion for weather and climate supercomputer

  The latest supercomputing technology will unleash the full potential of weather and climate data for the UK

  Up to £1.2 billion investment has been confirmed for a state-of-the-art supercomputer to improve severe weather and climate forecasting, Data from the supercomputer will be used to inform Government policy as part of leading the global fight against climate change and meeting net zero emission

• Climate extremes from the Poles to the Tropics

  Over the last decade the world has witnessed many extreme weather events including record-breaking temperatures this summer in England and devastating wildfires in Australia in 2019 and 2020.

  drought.” From 2020 the list includes the following global extreme weather and climate change impacts. United Kingdom, July 2022 Record high temperatures of over 40°C across wide areas of England. Over 1000 excess deaths in over-65s. 13 deaths due to drowning. Widespread disruption to railway network

• A look back at the weather and climate in 2020

  2020 has been a year of extremes with the wettest February on record, the sunniest spring, a heatwave in the summer and a day in October breaking rainfall records.

  With just a few days left to go, 2020 looks likely to be the 3rd or 4th warmest on record depending on how cold the rest of the year turns out to be (full years statistics published 4th January 2021). This makes it clear that the general trend of warming as a consequence of climate change is being

• OBE for Internationally renowned Climate Scientist

  Leadership and services to climate science recognised in New Year Honours for Met Office Science Fellow

  Richard Jones, who is a Met Office Science Fellow, and a visiting Professor at the University of Oxford has been working in climate science for thirty-two years, and has been a prominent author for the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) across its last four assessment reports