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Climate risk report for the Sahel region

The climate risk report for the Sahel 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. The Climate

by the Joint UK DECC/Defra Met Office Hadley Centre Climate Programme (GA01101). 4 Executive Summary Land temperature l 2014 was the warmest year on record for the UK, England, Wales and Scotland in a series from 1910, and for Central England in a series from 1659. l 8 of the 10 warmest years

with the previous generation, although they simulate global patterns of climate and climate change with greater fidelity. Despite the recent pause in the global mean surface temperature rise, the upper ranges of TCR and ECS derived from extended observational records, and specifically including

in developed countries than for countries in the global south. Confidence in climate attribution analysis relies on high quality observational records, climate models’ abilities to simulate a particular type of event, and scientific understanding of how natural variability and climate change may influence

region, there is either a National Meteorological Service (NMS) or a National Meteorological and Hydrological Service (NHMS). NMS or NMHSs are responsible for observing the weather and keeping climate records, forecasting the weather at various timescales and for developing and delivering forecast

in that period including an attribution study of the UK’s record-breaking annual temperature in 2022, where human-induced climate change made this event around 160 times more likely.  In December 2023, the Met Office annual global temperature forecast was published. Global average temperature rise

Exploring climate impacts Age range 11-14 What is the difference between weather and climate? www.metoffice.gov.uk/schools | 2 © Crown Copyright 2020, Met Office What is climate change? • What does it make you think of? • What are some of the impacts of climate change? • How might climate change

over the whole year it might seem rather unremarkable, however it is telling that whereas we consider 2021 as near-average for temperature in the context of the current climate, had this occurred just over three decades ago it would have been one of the UK’s warmest years on record. “Although 1°C

greater. With record-breaking temperatures and increasingly frequent and intense natural disasters, it’s clear that we cannot avoid the effects of climate change. In this context, businesses play a crucial role as agents of change. But the question remains: how can they truly adapt to these challenges

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