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• How changing weather patterns are affecting UK wildlife

  , shifting rainfall patterns, and rising sea levels are affecting species and ecosystems across the UK. Impacts on species behaviour One area of focus has been the impact of changing weather on species behaviour. For example, in Northern Ireland, warmer and wetter conditions are influencing barn owl

• Microsoft Word - 2025_02_storm_eowyn.docx

  Storm Éowyn, 24 January 2025 Storm Éowyn, the fifth storm of the 2024/2025 season so far, hit the UK in late January. Northern Ireland and Scotland’s Central Belt experienced the brunt of this storm with winds gusting widely at well over 70Kt (81mph), and in places over 80Kt (92mph). The highest

• April extremes: a closer look at April’s current weather records

  interactive graph below. Rainfall extremes: intense downpours and very wet days April can be a showery month, but it can also produce prolonged or intense rainfall events. The UK’s highest April daily rainfall total is 181.6mm at Seathwaite (Cumbria) on 22 April 1970. Scotland’s highest April daily rainfall

• Seamless decision-making for climate adaptation

  and to food supply. Decisions on a range of timescales We don’t 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

• An unsettled and chilly week for the UK

  Storm Ewan was named by Met Éireann, the Irish Met service, as the fifth named storm of the season on Saturday night. Storm Ewan brought strong winds to southern areas of Ireland on Sunday 26 February

  and hill snow in some areas. Chief Meteorologist Andy Page said: “Polar Maritime air is becoming established across the UK with colder conditions expected for the next few days, but nothing unusual for late winter. The week will be characterised by wet and windy spells across the southern half of the UK

• minutes_pwscg_27_apr_16_final.pdf

  and Met Eireann to review this first season of storm naming by the end of June. The views expressed by this group in relation to warnings were similar to others in that crucial elements to being successfully able to prepare and mobilise resources depend on the lead time into an event. This issue of timing

• ukcp-probabilistic-extremes-report-september-2020.pdf

  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

• ukcp-probabilistic-extremes-report-september-2020pdf

  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

• aspire-implementation-plan.pdf

  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

• Adding local insight: How public observations could enhance weather station data

  sources of weather and climate information in the UK, stretching back to 1836 for some metrics, and is one of the ways the Met Office can authoritatively compare observations with previous months and years, and is how we know when a month has been its wettest, or a season its sunniest, as well