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of the wet season in semiarid tropical climates of western Africa. Int J Climatol 21:1251– 1262 Sijikumar S, Roucou P, Fontaine B (2006) Monsoon onset over Sudan- Sahel: simulation by the regional scale model MM5. Geophys Res Lett 33: L03814. doi:10.1029/2005GL024819 Sivakumar MVK (1988) Predicting

Assessing the use and benefits of weather and climate information services in Pakistan Final report for the Asia Resilience to a changing climate programme August 2022 3 Authors University of Leeds Marta Bruno Soares Linas Svolkinas Hellen Msemo Natalie Suckall ICIMOD Mandira Shrestha Mani Nepal

and the Met Office predicts there could be an increased water requirement for maize irrigation by the middle of the century which will increase the risk of extreme water shortages in the NFR (Xu et al. 2019). These water shortages are projected to occur mid-season, an important developmental time

during the last week of the month was the weather truly unsettled, a period which included the first named storm of the season. The mean temperature was provisionally 0.5 °C above the 1981-2010 long-term average, with the north being rather milder but the south-east being near or just below average

just care about the weather tomorrow, but we care about the weather next season, and the weather further into the future. We know climate change will bring hotter drier summers, and warmer wetter winters, and more extreme summer hot dry days, longer periods of drought, and more frequent and intense

All tropical cyclones in the northern hemisphere season in 2018 are listed below including details of their start and end dates, lowest central pressure and maximum sustained wind (MSW).

Click on the name of the tropical cyclone to see a chart of the observed track and forecast tracks from the Met Office global model. Verification statistics on each tropical cyclone are available upon request from [email protected]. At the end of the season a verification report on the performance

the infamous snowy / windy / cold / sunny winter of 2016-17? I just hoped it wouldn’t be another wet winter. Winter 2015-16 was the second wettest on record; 2013-14 was the wettest in a series extending back to 1910. Those seasons were dominated by a powerful jet stream over the Atlantic, spawning

, representing plausible high-consequence but low-likelihood future climates. The scenarios will define hot, cold, wet and dry extremes, windstorms, sea level rise and compound events. Find out more.    Climate Expo Conference - May 2021 Registration is now open for Climate Exp0, the first virtual

update later under the MARG item. 4 FY17/18 Deliverables and Performance 4.1 Met Office Annual Report DR provided the group with a run through of the main challenges and achievements from the last financial year. A summary of the weather experienced during the seasons noted that the summer was relatively

the minutes from the previous meeting and if members were content with that record. No participants raised any point so the minutes were cleared. Item 4: Review of Weather and Warnings WL provided a summary update of the main weather events from the winter season which had been generally mild overall but wet