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levels throughout the year.   Pollen and hay fever  Respiratory allergies are more common than ever, and recent studies in Europe have found that some pollen types are increasing in severity, season duration and seeing an earlier onset as a result of climate change.    Pollen is made up of tiny

). A target could be to have information available ahead of the 2019 rainy season. 2) Risk of extreme years within the 2-5 year period. A small amount of additional diagnostic work could provide supporting diagnostic information on the risk of very dry / very wet years within a 2-5 year period, based

Catherine’s Point (Isle of Wight) recorded 953.6hPa, England’s lowest November pressure on record. Ciarán also brought further significant and unwelcome heavy rainfall on top of persistent wet weather through much of October. Impacts The worst of the impacts from storm Ciarán occurred across

a big impact on UK weather, particularly by determining the position of the North Atlantic Storm track in winter. For example, read about the influence of the jet stream on the unusually wet October 2019 (https://blog.metoffice.gov. uk/2019/11/04/the-jet-stream-casts-its-shadow-over-the-uk

, February) for many, the season had its fair share of impactful, and at times destructive, weather.  Although the provisional weather and climate statistics show a slightly drier, duller and warmer winter for the UK compared to the long-term average, these figures mask what has been a mixed season

chance of milder, wetter winters and hotter, drier summers along with an increase in the frequency and intensity of extremes. By the end of the 21st century, all areas of the UK are projected to be warmer, more so in summer than in winter. The figure shows regional projections for lowest, central

for most of the season. It was provisionally the warmest and sunniest spring on record for the UK as a whole, the sunniest spring for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland and the warmest spring for all countries in the UK. March started with cooler than average conditions in the south, while the north saw

to be drier and cooler seasons wetter. This also means that any correlations found between crop yields and either of these variables are not mutually exclusive, and so multivariate correlation will be explored in Section 3.5. Figure 4: Scatter plot of WFDEI JAS season total precipitation against

also been notable, with an exceptionally dry spring and summer. However, autumn rainfall so far is running above average for this point in the season, thanks to a very wet September and a wet start to November. The figures presented in this article do not include this month’s statistics

Storm Aiden 31 October 2020 Storm Aiden 1 brought strong winds and heavy rain to the UK on 31 October 2020. The storm was part of a spell of turbulent, wet and very windy weather from late October to early November as a succession of deep Atlantic low pressure systems, associated with a powerful