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under a high-emissions scenario – increasing from a UK-average of once every ten years in the present day to almost once every five years by the 2070s. This year has already seen the UK’s highest recorded daily maximum temperature of 38.7 °C in Cambridge on 25 July. The projections from UKCP show
important ‘breadbasket’ regions, such as the Punjab in South Asia, where these strains have not yet been detected. Now, a team of scientists of the University of Cambridge, the UK Met Office and CIMMYT (International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre) have adapted modelling systems previously used
. Cambridge U. Press, Cambridge, pp 847–940 Christensen JH, Kjellström E, Giorgi F, Lenderink G, Rummukainen M (2010) Assigning relative weights to regional climate models: Exploring the concept. Clim Res. doi:10.3354/cr00916 Collins M et al (2006a) Towards quantifying uncertainty in transient climate
in 2009. Mike graduated with an MSc in Hydrology for Environmental Management from Imperial College, London in 2004. Mike graduated with an MEng Engineering from Cambridge University in 1996. Before joining the Met Office, Mike spent 3 years as a hydrologist for a Civil Engineering Consultancy
in the south. Rain will be patchy and mainly in the far north. Maximum temperature 14°C. Cambridge United vs Barnet Heavy rain early on will become lighter and more intermittent. The brisk easterly wind will make it feel chilly, with a high of 11°C. Fleetwood Town vs Swindon Town Cloudy with rain
. Richardson eloquently described his fantasy in his book "Weather Prediction by Numerical Process" (Cambridge University Press, 1922; see also "Richardson's Fantastic Forecast Factory" by Peter Lynch in Weather January 2016 71:1). LFRic continues the formal collaboration with STFC that was established
Cambridge Botanic Gardens 01 October 2011 29.9 Gravesend (Kent) 01 November 2015 22.4 Trawsgoed (Ceredigion) 28 December 2019 (provisional) 18.7 Achfary (Sutherland) Highest daily minimum temperature Date Highest daily minimum temperature °C Location 25 January 2016 13.1 Magilligan (County Londonderry) 23
, China. Center for Global Change Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA. Centre for Rediscovered and Redefined Natural Resources Research and Education (C4RE), Dhaka, Bangladesh. CICERO Center for International Climate and Environmental
that those in Cambridge and Oxford would avoid the use of slang, each similarly favoured the term ‘chucking it’ to describe heavy rain (83% and 57%). Glaswegians are most likely to use the term ‘pelting it’ and Londoners prefer to say ‘caning it’. Despite being almost 90 miles apart, the people
of Wight. Details of the temperature records broken are given in the following table, with most of the stations having over 70 years of data: Station County August 1990 Maximum temperature (°C) Date Previous record Cheltenham Gloucestershire 37.1 3 35.9 Cambridge Botanic Gardens Cambridgeshire 36.5
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