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2020 has been a year of extremes with the wettest February on record, the sunniest spring, a heatwave in the summer and a day in October breaking rainfall records.

With just a few days left to go, 2020 looks likely to be the 3rd or 4th warmest on record depending on how cold the rest of the year turns out to be (full years statistics published 4th January 2021). This makes it clear that the general trend of warming as a consequence of climate change is being

Exploring climate impacts Age range: 7-11 Exploring climate impacts | Weather and climate stories Introduction Overview This lesson explores climate change and its impacts around the world. Your pupils will step into the shoes of people in other countries, finding out about their ways of life

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

Date: 28-29 November 2019 Location: Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago Funded by: World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Climate Risk and Early Warning Systems (CREWS) programme Hosted by: Met Office, WMO CREWS, Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology (CIMH) Workshop Objectives: 1. Raise

The WISER programme has been delivering transformational change in the quality, accessibility and use of weather and climate information services at all levels to support sustainable development since 2015.

and climate services.    As a global initiative that supports the provision of useful, usable and used weather and climate services, WISER works with communities who are disproportionately impacted by extreme weather, seasonal variability and a changing climate across Africa, the Middle East and North

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

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

First explorations UK weather and climate quiz 1 2 3 4 Explain to the group that in this activity, they’ll be exploring weather and climate change in the UK. Start the lesson by showing the group the weather warriors film here. Show your group slide 2 that includes the quiz and ask them to split

Leadership and services to climate science recognised in New Year Honours for Met Office Science Fellow

Richard Jones, who is a Met Office Science Fellow, and a visiting Professor at the University of Oxford has been working in climate science for thirty-two years, and has been a prominent author for the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) across its last four assessment reports

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