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• Bank holiday forecast: A hot and settled weekend

  strongest wind gusts recorded? Weekly weather quiz October 23: Test your knowledge! Weekend weather: Wet and windy as Storm Boelo arrives How to find wind and gust information in the Met Office app  10-day trend: Storm Austen brings wind and rain How has the jet stream influenced Storm Austen’s

• Met Office festival forecast: Mixed conditions for late July festivals

  July festivals Author: Press Office Mon 28 Jul 2025 As festival season continues across the UK, the latest Met Office forecast is here to help festivalgoers prepare for the week ahead. With a number of major events kicking off from Thursday 31 July, conditions are expected to be mixed, with humid air

• Why has it been so warm and humid recently?

  . That warmth has continued into July, with mean temperatures placing this summer so far in the top 5% of all summers on record. Night-time temperatures have been especially notable, exceeding previous records for this stage of the season. By the end of the recent hot spell, temperatures of 30°C or more had

• An ‘unprecedented’ El Niño and its implications for the weather forecast

  South America (see figure below). El Niño also affects tropical cyclones and suppresses Atlantic hurricanes by increasing wind shear in the tropical Atlantic. Consistent with this, there have only been three storms so far this season, but it only takes one large hurricane to lead to devastating

• Met Office Deep Dive: A change on the way, but when?

  , we need to look at the broader atmospheric pattern, particularly the behaviour of the jet stream. High pressure remains in charge through this week, bringing anticyclonic gloom for many ☁️ However, a change is on the way over the weekend with low pressure retuning, bringing wetter and windier

• Deeper Dive: Why we need to look up

  scientific vocabulary, while the sky itself offers a universal point of connection. READ MORE: Deep dive: From mountain waves to mammatus Are the UK’s seasons changing? Global climate in 2025: How did the UK compare? Does a hot summer mean a cold winter?    Keep up to date with weather warnings, and you

• southern-england_-climate-met-office.pdf

  in these seasons. In summer, convection caused by solar surface heating sometimes forms shower clouds and a large proportion of rain falls from showers and thunderstorms then. The additional heat from the London urban area can encourage such shower development in summer. A further factor that greatly affects

• southern-england_-climate-met-officepdf

  in these seasons. In summer, convection caused by solar surface heating sometimes forms shower clouds and a large proportion of rain falls from showers and thunderstorms then. The additional heat from the London urban area can encourage such shower development in summer. A further factor that greatly affects

• NCIC Monthly Summary

  . 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

• barometer-issue-35.pdf

  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