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in the first half of September: A wet start, but the deficit remains October  October started with the naming of Storm Amy, the first named storm of the 2025/26 season. Storm Amy brought very strong winds and heavy rain to northern and western areas, with amber warnings highlighting the risk of power cuts

or sunny spells in between, and as Thursday progresses, showers are expected to ease for many. READ MORE: Met Office Deep Dive: Storm season past and present A brief drier spell on Friday As we head into Friday, the weather is set to turn a little drier for many. The influence of low pressure

, 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

Storm Henk, 2 January 2024 Storm Henk, the eighth storm of the 2023-2024 storm season, brought damaging winds and heavy rain to southern and central parts of England and Wales on 2 January 2024. Winds gusted widely at over 50Kt (58mph), even in inland locations, while Exeter Airport recorded a gust

Weather warnings have been issued by the Met Office with wet and windy weather to continue over the next few days.

in from the west, bringing further wet and windy weather. It will feel rather cold, with parts of Northern Ireland, Wales and western and southern England seeing a frost on Saturday morning.  Sunday could see rain linger again across the northeast of the UK, with sunny spells and blustery, heavy shower

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

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

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

2026, revealing a season characterised by persistent wet weather and stark regional rainfall contrasts. Read more Latest Global call to action: addressing the critical gap in climate change risk assessment The world currently lacks an authoritative and up to date assessment of climate change risks say

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