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facts about Autumn Fact checking climate information Met Office week ahead: Wet, windy but with hints of change Hurricanes, typhoons and tornadoes: What’s the difference? Why do we have seasons? How changing weather patterns are affecting UK wildlife Ocean forecasting at the Met Office: What
). Plants that succumbed to the heat early in the year may have a shortened flowering season, reducing food for pollinators, and not producing fruit such as berries in the autumn, which is another vital food source for small mammals and birds. During June 2023, a large number of fish were found dead
, which is seeing a shift to wetter and windier weather on Tuesday and into Wednesday. This could indeed see a mixture of snow and rain over the high ground of Scotland over the next couple of days, but this isn’t the weather the vast majority of people will experience and isn’t unheard of, even
available for storm development (measured as CAPE) is lower than earlier forecasts indicated, reducing the likelihood of severe weather. A Pattern of Change The overarching theme for the coming days is one of alternating systems: periods of wet and windy weather followed by brief, quieter interludes
northern areas will continue to experience blustery conditions and outbreaks of rain, particularly across Scotland. Temperatures will rise slightly, reaching 24 to 25°C in the southeast. Weekend weather: dry in the south, wet in the north As the weekend begins, many areas will enjoy dry and increasingly
decade 2015-2024, the number of months where counties are recording monthly rainfall totals of at least twice the 1991-2020 monthly average has increased by over 50% compared to the number in 1961-1990. As the UK’s climate warms, it is also becoming wetter, with this report showing that the increase
Storms Isha and Jocelyn, 21 to 24 January 2024 Storms Isha and Jocelyn, the ninth and tenth named storms of the 2023-2024 storm season, arrived in quick succession in late January 2024. The storms were influenced by a powerful jet stream which was intensified by a large contrast in temperature
the impactful wet and windy weather from Storm Éowyn, it’s a mark of how unusually bright other days were that January 2025 will go down as one of the sunniest on record for the UK. “We chiefly saw this as a result of frequent high pressure over the UK, bringing clear skies for many but also below
Despite cold weather closing out autumn, it has been a mild season overall, especially across the southern half of the UK.
Wales this was the warmest autumn on record, marginally warmer than 2011 and 2006. Autumn rainfall It has been a wet autumn across the UK, except for western Scotland, with parts of eastern Scotland, north-east and eastern England, southern England and the east of Northern Ireland receiving over 150
of annual indices have also been calculated and gridded. These were derived from daily temperature (T) or precipitation data using the following definitions: • Growing Season Length (GSL) = period (days) bounded by daily T_mean > 5 °C and < 5 °C (after 1 st July) for ≥ 6 days. • Heating Degree Days
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