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during Paris Olympics 1 August 2024 The Paris Olympics in late July to August 2024 began with wet and unsettled weather, featuring heavy rain and thunderstorms at times. On 1st August, a series of early morning thunderstorms swept over the city, causing a delay in the start of the men’s race walk

is the best time to visit Alicante? The summer high season coincides with the hottest and driest part of the year, which is roughly June through to September. Summer On average July and August see very little rain, with an average of 10 or 11 hours of sunshine each day during these months

, making life very difficult especially to farmers. Longer droughts have manifested into unique crop and animal pests and diseases leading to low Agricultural production and food insecurity. Over the years, the cattle keepers are forced to migrate to safer wet land catchment areas or sell

on the atmosphere which, in turn can influence the weather here in the UK. Early in the winter La Niña can bring colder-than-average conditions, while later in winter it encourage warmer and wetter-than-average conditions. At the moment La Niña is in a weak phase and is likely to stay this way all winter

Storm Agnes, 27 to 28 September 2023 Storm Agnes was the first named storm of the 2023-2024 storm season (which begins in September). Agnes was an intense area of low pressure enhanced by energy from Tropical Storm Ophelia which affected the north-east coast of the US and caused serious flooding

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, drier summers,’ which describes, in a general sense, the changes we expect to see across the UK due

. There was heavy snow across parts of Highland Scotland and a mini-tornado in Greater Manchester. This storm contributed to the generally prolonged, very wet and unsettled spell of weather lasting through much of December. Weather impacts Storm Gerrit caused severe travel disruption to the rail

. standard-deviation) across the 12-member UKCP Local (2.2km) ensemble. This can be seen in some variables in some seasons, and especially in some locations. A detailed breakdown of this is available in the Technical Note and reproduced here in Table 1 in the Appendix. 3 Which existing UKCP documents

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

of the larger-scale changes, in which there may be more confidence. • The changes in characteristics of the weather types shown by the global projections indicate that, on average, UK winter weather conditions are expected to become milder and for certain weather types, wetter. We focus here on the UK