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• 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

• The influence of climate change on severe weather

  of heatwaves have increased worldwide. A number of major heatwaves in the UK have occurred in the past 5 years (2018, 2019, 2021 and 2022), each seeing new temperature records set. Notably the England record has been set three times over. Numerous climate attribution studies have shown that human

• High resolution global climate modelling

  The High Resolution Global Climate Modelling group both develops and analyses a hierarchy of model resolutions (ranging from 130km to 25km in the atmosphere, and 1 degree to ¼ degree in the ocean) based on the Met Office climate prediction model: HadGEM3 family configuration of the Unified Model

• factsheet_7-climate-of-south-west-england_2023pdf

  Climate National Meteorological Library and Archive Factsheet 7 — Climate of southwest England The National Meteorological Library and Archive Open to everyone The library was first mentioned in the 1870 Annual Report of the Meteorological Office. In 1914 the archive was established as the official

• 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

• Making sense of climate change projections

  Skip to main content Weather & climate Research programmes Services About us Careers Menu Search site Search Back Weather & climate Everything you need to know about the forecast, and making the most of the weather. Find a forecast Warnings & advice Warnings & advice UK weather warnings UK Storm

• Central Africa climate risk report

  Climate risk report for the Central Africa region

  The climate risk report for the Central 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

• UK Climate Resilience Programme infographics

  The UK Climate Resilience Programme ran from 2019 to 2023. As part of our role in co-leading the programme, we produced various infographics to help communicate its outputs.

  Programme overview and legacy The infographics below show the programme's strategic themes and how it will achieve a lasting legacy.  Download the UK Climate Resilience overview infographic (PDF document) Download the UK Climate Resilience legacy infographic (PDF document) From climate hazard

• Learn more about the weather and climate

  A collection of factsheets and guides to understanding our weather and climate.

  A fascinating series of factsheets that clearly describe and illustrate the processes involved in global weather and climate. A brochure on how forecasts are made. Historical factsheets on key weather events, including D-Day. In-depth guides on all aspects of climate and climate change.

• Humidity – the second pillar of climate change

  Climate change isn’t just affecting global temperature, it’s also changing the amount of water vapour in the atmosphere with potentially significant impacts, finds a new study looking at global humidity.

  Kate Willett is a Met Office scientist and author of a new study looking at global humidity – the amount of water vapour held in the atmosphere as a gas. She said: “Think of climate change and people immediately think of rising temperatures. This isn’t wrong, but it misses a key fact that climate