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formed part of a turbulent spell of wet and windy weather for the UK, associated with a powerful jet stream. Storms Dudley and Franklin also brought significant weather impacts. Impacts Storm Eunice brought major weather impacts. Four people died in the UK and Ireland as a result of falling trees. Over

with climate during the season. Although it was providing valuable scientific insight and remained popular with its observers, retirement of the last coordinator initiated closure of the network. After a gap of 50 years, the UK Phenology Network was resurrected in 1998 by the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology

and Schär, 2017), cold, hot, dry or wet seasonal extremes (e.g. Sexton and Harris, 2015) or multi-season droughts (e.g. Burke and Brown, 2010), can also be obtained. In UKCP, users can obtain projections of future extremes for the UK or other regions from UK Global (a set of 28 climate model simulations

different model variants that achieve this. These simulations will form our best estimate of the future range of changes in the worldwide patterns of temperature, moisture and atmospheric circulation that in turn alter the frequency and intensity of the extreme hot, cold, wet or dry seasons

the 30-year mean projections of UKCP09. This approach enables the projections to be expressed in terms of the extreme hot, cold, wet or dry seasons that impact society, providing a better idea of adaptation needs. The methods used to produce these new projections are based on the methodology developed

is generally grown in uplands and sub- humid areas (Gari, 2002). Optimum millet growing temperature is 30C Wheat is generally cultivated as a winter rainfed crop in the highlands of Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, and Tanzania (Negassa et al. 2012 ). Wheat is a cool season crop and increasing

early on in the formation of the service development teams that all users were feeding back that seasonal outlooks in East Africa were issued too late to support meaningful action and in addition, after the outlook had been issued, monthly updates of the progress of the season were required. Through

cloudier and wetter than average over much of the UK, average temperatures in May and Spring broke previous records in a series dating back to 1884. With the day-time heat in May and Spring focussed in sparselypopulated Northern Scotland, and significant (but not unprecedented) rainfall and cloudiness

, this natural climate variability is the current La Niña event, marked by cool sea surface temperatures in the equatorial Pacific Ocean which are generally associated with modified global weather patterns that make many tropical land regions wetter and cooler. These increase plant growth, temporarily

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