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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

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

. They are counties in Western Region, which have a much wetter climate than Tana River County. Consequently, flooding is the main hazard and can be severe, including through flooding of the Nyando river. The main rainfall and flooding season is MAM, but floods can also occur in OND. Despite the generally wetter

, 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

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

to increase by 1.4 to 5.8°C during the 21 st century (Kwon et al., 2005; Sheperd and Jin, 2004). Lioubimtseva and � Corresponding author. Tel.: +98 915 3049764, Fax: +98 51 33822311. E-mail address: [email protected] Henebry (2009) showed that aridity would increase across the entire central Asian

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

, and Sutcliffe 1996). Together the RSCZ and the ITCZ produce a bimodal seasonal distribution of precipitation with one peak between March and May and the other between July and September. In this report, a single wet season between April and November is considered. Outside of the two wet periods

Sunshine 35 Wind 39 Sea Level 42 Extremes for year 2016 44 Significant Weather Events of 2016 45 Eastern Scotland wet spell 45 September hot spell 47 Correction to 2015 report 49 Annex 1: Datasets 50 Monthly grids 50 Long term average grids 52 Daily grids and degree days 53 Central England