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? Pollen production is heavily influenced by weather conditions. A warm and wet spring can lead to higher pollen production, while dry and breezy conditions help disperse it into the air. Conversely, a cold winter can delay the start of the pollen season by keeping plants dormant longer. Spring

will continue to be a feature of the forecast until the end of the week. By the end of the weekend there is a signal that we may see a shift in type away from the Arctic-dominated conditions with milder and wetter weather coming in from the Atlantic. This transition could bring the risk of significant

As festival season kicks into high gear across the UK, revellers can expect a mixed bag of weather conditions, with warm temperatures, sunny spells, and the ever-present risk of showers. Here's the latest forecast for some of the major events taking place this week. Glastonbury Festival, Worthy

the engagement with the government regarding Storm Bert and Darragh. The autumn season had been characterised by wet and windy conditions. Lynn Mawdsley (Non-Executive Director and Audit and Risk Assurance Committee (ARAC) Chair) provided a verbal report on the meeting the previous day. ARAC had met

is with a baseball player (or to choose another sport, a cricketer) who starts taking steroids and afterwards hits on average 20% more home runs (or sixes) in a season than he did before (Meehl 2012). For any one of his home runs (sixes) during the years the player was taking steroids, you would

monthly sunshine hours. Notable weather Storm Ashley, the first named storm of the 2024/25 season, brought wet and windy weather to the UK between 20-21 October with the strongest winds across north-western areas. While crossing the Atlantic the area of low pressure interacted with a powerful jet

regional forcing is a strong component of simulated biases in tropical-extratropical interaction frequency Hart, Washington, Stratton (2018) GRL Result 2: Reduction of wet bias in CP4 ● Reduced October to January rainfall bias in CP4 and improved maintenance of east-west rainfall gradient Hart

wet summers from 2007, with only that of 2013 drier than average for the UK and four of these summers exceeding 130% of average for the UK overall. Winter Spring Summer Autumn Rainfall anomaly (%) 20% 20% 400.0 300.0 200.0 100.0 0.0 1910 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 Year Season

Changing Climatic Conditions of British Sporting Events under Increased Global Temperatures Author: Press Office 11 July 2024 Anyone exploring the Met Office’s UK Climate Projections (UKCP) for the first time is unlikely to be looking for long before coming across the phrase ‘warmer, wetter winters; hotter

The latest Met Office ‘State of the UK Climate’ report has been published today, examining the weather of 2022 in the context of long-term climate records.   The report highlights how the UK’s climate continues to change, with recent decades warmer, wetter and sunnier than the 20th century