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Details of funding awards from the UK Climate Resilience Programme that ran from 2019 to 2023

October 2020 Open funding calls for the UK Climate Resilience programme were announced in May 2019. Following the bidding process and evaluation of the submitted bids, we are pleased to announce that the following projects commence in October 2020.  Climate services standards monitoring and valuing

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

Providing Regional Climates for Impacts Studies

Read our news updates and newsletters about the UK Climate Projections (UKCP18)

News updates Shaping the Future of UK Climate Projections - 26 February 2025  The Met Office and Defra are launching a new consultation of our UK Climate Projections (UKCP) service to gather user perspectives. It’s an opportunity for users to share their experiences of using our climate information

Exploring climate impacts Age range 7-11 What is the difference between weather and climate? www.metoffice.gov.uk/schools | 2 © Crown Copyright 2020, Met Office What is climate change? • What does it make you think of? • What are some of the impacts of climate change? • How might climate change

with historical records. The latest edition of the State of the UK Climate report [published on Monday 14 July 2025] showed the flowering of hazel trees has advanced significantly over the period from 1999-2024. Looking at the information collated by the Woodland Trust from data submitted

November 2024 - Novel research projects joining expertise at Met Office and The Wildlife Trusts sow the seeds for further research on climate and nature.

There are strong relationships between climate and the natural world. Habitats and wildlife often suffer as a result of climate changes, but they are also a key part of the solution, helping us to build resilience to current and future change.   The UK is one of the most nature depleted countries

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

Climate change isn’t just affecting global temperature, it’s also changing the amount of water vapour in the atmosphere with potentially significant impacts, finds a new study looking at global humidity.

Kate Willett is a Met Office scientist and author of a new study looking at global humidity – the amount of water vapour held in the atmosphere as a gas. She said: “Think of climate change and people immediately think of rising temperatures. This isn’t wrong, but it misses a key fact that climate

Northern Ireland: climate Northern Ireland consists of the six counties of Antrim, Armagh, Londonderry, Down, Fermanagh and Tyrone. These encompass a variety of topographical features. The inland basin centred on Lough Neagh (the largest lake in the UK, with an area of 385 sq km) is surrounded