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Northern Scotland: climate This describes the main features of the climate of Northern Scotland, comprising Highland Region, the Western Isles, Orkney and Shetland. The principal mainland geographic features comprise the Grampian Mountains and the northern Highlands, which rise steeply from

Northern Scotland will see the strongest winds and heaviest rain, however, Glasgow, where the COP26 climate conference is underway, does not escape the unsettled weather. Bonfire Night   It will be mostly dry across the UK as a whole for Friday evening, but cloudier the further north you go. A few

The ENACTS initiative is led by the International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI).

The ENACTS initiative is implemented by National Meteorological and Hydrological Services and Regional Climate Centres in Africa with the support of the International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI) and other partners. It is designed to transform local, national and regional

Eastern Scotland: climate This describes the main features of the climate of Eastern Scotland, comprising the Borders, the Lothians, Falkirk, Clackmannanshire, Fife and the former regions of Tayside and Grampian. This region includes the cities of Edinburgh, Dundee and Aberdeen. The principal

Met Office and Microsoft join forces to build world’s most powerful weather and climate forecasting supercomputer in UK

The Met Office has signed a multimillion-pound agreement with Microsoft for the provision of a world-leading supercomputing capability that will take weather and climate forecasting to the next level and help the UK stay safe and thrive, announced today on Earth Day (22 April). This new

Climate stripes collage Our climate is changing, and one way we can show this is to make graphs, maps or pictures of climate data. You may have noticed the climate stripes developed by Climatologist Professor Ed Hawkins using Met Office data. Looking almost like works of art, these eye-catching

The Met Office supercomputing system is the first cloud-based supercomputer dedicated to weather and climate science

Our supercomputing system With greater capacity and even higher performance, our new supercomputing system is the first cloud-based supercomputer dedicated to weather and climate science and will set new standards for industry leveraging the combined strengths of the Met Office and Microsoft

This page explains how we study extreme weather events, to see if climate change was a cause. These attribution studies help shape our understanding of climate change and its impacts.

effect climate change had on an event. This might include many variables, like temperature and rainfall. An attribution case study: The European heatwave in 2019 In July 2019, we saw record breaking temperatures across the UK and Western Europe. In Cambridge, we saw a temperature of 38.7°C

Document history Version Purpose Date 0.1 Review 14/05/2021 1.0 Final delivery 30/07/2021 1.1 Revisions 27/10/2021 1.2 Revisions 20/10/2023 1.3 Climate analysis revisions, no socioeconomics 31/01/2025 have been updated 1.4 Review 28/02/2025 Lead authors Katy Richardson, Senior Scientist Amy Doherty

Southeast Asia Climate Risk Report HEADLINE CLIMATE STATEMENTS MYANMAR VIETNAM LAO PEOPLE’S DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC THAILAND CAMBODIA PHILIPPINES BRUNEI DARASSALAM Between 1980-2015, average temperatures across the majority of Southeast Asia increased by around 0.5°C. Warming rates have been highest