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Office festival forecast: Dry and sunny midweek before turning unsettled Author: Press Office 4 August 2025 As festival season continues, attendees can expect a varied weather picture across the UK from midweek. While Wednesday offers the best chance of dry and sunny conditions, Thursday and Friday

. Our Met Office climate projections indicate that hot spells will become more frequent in our future climate, particularly over the southeast of the UK. Temperatures are projected to rise in all seasons, but the heat would be most intense in summer."   Keep up to date with weather warnings, and you

-term average, with the driest regions in the east and southeast.”  Drier than 1976? The lack of rainfall through sequential months and seasons becomes significant when looking back over the years as the 8-month period from November 2021 to June 2022 has been the driest in England since 1975/76

natural savannah and grasslands to agriculture. However, changes in land use can act as a driver for fires in different areas such as tropical forests, and in other regions such as high-latitude forests wildfires are increasing more in line with fire weather and fire season length. Extreme weather

is Anticyclonic gloom? Author: Press Office 13 October 2025 When high pressure dominates the UK weather as it has done this past week, many expect crisp blue skies and sunshine. But as seasoned forecasters know, especially in the colder months, high pressure can bring something quite different

). 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

reach 20 to 40 millimetres, especially over high ground. Eastern parts of Northern Ireland are also a watch point for heavier rain. READ MORE: Met Office Deep Dive: Storm season past and present The day will start mostly dry in eastern areas, with mist and fog possible once again. However, winds

will become more frequent in our future climate, particularly over the southeast of the UK. Temperatures are projected to rise in all seasons, but the heat would be most intense in summer."   READ MORE: How weather and climate change are shaping the future of UK sport Keep up to date with weather

. There was plenty of settled weather, with only limited amounts of rainfall, especially in the south. Only 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

is not sufficient to assess model projections. Direct investigation of the mechanisms for future precipitation change is also important, and existing efforts in this area have generated valuable hypothesis about the potential drivers of wet and dry responses [e.g., Biasutti et al., 2008, 2009; Monerie et al