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, all being generally drier than average. The autumn months were wetter than average, although this was not enough to fully offset the deficit from the previous eight months. It was a sunnier than average year for most areas, especially eastern England, with only some northern and western fringes

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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

, i.e. v2018 and v2022 or the “original” and “new”. We have also included three scientific improvements to the methodology that improve the utility of the data. These are: • The statistical treatment of precipitation to avoid physically implausible values and improve the projections of dry- and wet

After a hot and dry June, July followed up with a wet and slightly cool month for many as low pressure brought frequent periods of winds and rain. Northern Ireland saw more than double its average rainfall for the month, with 185.4mm (207% of its long-term average) the provisional figure

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

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, but the exceptional start

Topic Climate change Climate science Corporate news Severe weather Weather news Weather review Year 2026 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 Latest An early look at the winter statistics: just how wet has it been? This winter has felt, for many, like a season stuck on repeat. Read more

and sunniest on record, as well as the sixth driest. However, the season had fewer instances of severe weather, with a subsequent decrease in warnings from previous months. So just how did the Met Office forecast develop and how was it used? We take a look… Light on warnings but not on some impacts Spring can