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• How to avoid the impact of climate change

  Providing policy-relevant evidence and research on avoiding dangerous climate change and its impacts.

  It is critical that mitigation and adaptation policy are underpinned by strong scientific evidence. The Climate Change Mitigation Advice team carries out original underpinning research on aspects of dangerous climate change, including Amazon dieback, the cryosphere, and marine impacts. Our primary

• Attributing extreme weather to climate change

  This page explains how we study extreme weather events, to see if climate change was a cause. These attribution studies help shape our understanding of climate change and its impacts.

  effect climate change had on an event. This might include many variables, like temperature and rainfall. An attribution case study: The European heatwave in 2019 In July 2019, we saw record breaking temperatures across the UK and Western Europe. In Cambridge, we saw a temperature of 38.7°C

• Our supercomputer for weather and climate forecasting

  The Met Office supercomputing system is the first cloud-based supercomputer dedicated to weather and climate science

  Our supercomputing system With greater capacity and even higher performance, our new supercomputing system is the first cloud-based supercomputer dedicated to weather and climate science and will set new standards for industry leveraging the combined strengths of the Met Office and Microsoft

• Dashboard highlights urgency of climate action

  A Met Office Hadley Centre dashboard monitoring key indicators of global climate is providing an authoritative way to stay up to date with the current state of the climate.

  The  Climate Dashboard  – compiled by Met Office scientists – will help decision makers, including those at COP 26, to view how indicators of climate change, such as global temperature, ocean heat content, sea level rise, sea ice extent and atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations are shifting

• West Africa climate risk report

  Climate risk report for the West Africa region

  The climate risk report for the West Africa region is part of a series of regional climate risk reports the Met Office has produced in collaboration with ODI and commissioned by FCDO to provide evidence to the UK Government in support of adaptation and resilience planning and investments

• africa-climate-outlook---november-2024pdf

  OFFICIAL AFRICA: Monthly Climate Outlook August to May Issued: November 2024 Overview Current Status Outlooks Annex 1 – Supplemental Information OFFICIAL Climate Outlook Africa: August to May OFFICIAL Overview Africa Current Status and Outlook – Temperature Africa Current Status and Outlook

• northern-ireland_-climate-met-officepdf

  Northern Ireland: climate Northern Ireland consists of the six counties of Antrim, Armagh, Londonderry, Down, Fermanagh and Tyrone. These encompass a variety of topographical features. The inland basin centred on Lough Neagh (the largest lake in the UK, with an area of 385 sq km) is surrounded

• global-climate-outlook---march-2024pdf

  Climate Outlook Global: December to September Global: Monthly Climate Outlook December to September Issued: March 2024 Overview Current Status Outlooks Annex 1 – Supplemental Information Climate Outlook Global: December to September Overview MENA, Caribbean and British Overseas Territories Current

• Increasing climate challenge to Wimbledon Championship

  Climate change will have an increasing impact on our lives, including the sport we love to watch.

  already seen aspects such as extreme heat, and the worse is yet to come. “The UK has not recorded temperatures of more than 38.7 °C. However, our climate projections show temperatures of 40.0 °C or more are possible at Wimbledon even during future tournaments, posing considerable challenges

• 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