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Dec 30, 2021 · Winter as a whole was colder and wetter than average. Spring 2021. A notably dry and very sunny April, the sunniest April on record for the UK, with the most air frosts for at least 60 years. The wettest May on record in Wales, fifth wettest for England and fourth wettest for the UK overall. An unseasonably warm spell at the end of March ...
- UK climate continues to change in 2021 - Met Office
Temperature. In what was in some regards a relatively...
- UK climate continues to change in 2021 - Met Office
Nov 23, 2021 · It is not a daily weather forecast but instead focuses on the likely chance of the average temperature and rainfall amounts occurring during the three month period. Our current Three-Month Outlook says that the period as a whole gives a 30% chance of being wetter than average and a 10% chance of being drier than average: leaving a 60% chance of the period being near average precipitation.
Therefore whilst we can still forecast the general feel of the weather to a relatively high level of accuracy using our ensemble models, it becomes harder to offer local detail to as high a level of accuracy as our shorter range forecasts. For this reason our text forecasts for 5 days and beyond are written on the scale of the UK as a whole.
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Was 2021 an average year for UK climate? The answer rather hinges on what we define as “average” – a rather tricky concept in a shifting climate. All national meteorological agencies, including the Met Office in the UK, retain extensive historical records of weather and climate observations. In order to facilitate international consistency in the w...
The 2021 UK average temperature is an example of a situation that was previously quite rare and unusual, but is now commonplace. Thanks to climate “attribution” science, we can quantify the role of human-caused climate change on these statistics using now well-established attribution methods. We have conducted analysis using a collection of climate...
Looking at each season specifically, 2021 began on a relatively cold theme. It was overall the coldest January since 2010, and the coldest for any calendar month since the cold and snowy March of 2013. Storm Christoph (pdf) saw some exceptional rainfall totals during 18-20 January, requiring evacuation of homesin parts of Warrington, Chester and Ma...
A maximum temperature of 24.5C was recorded at Kew Gardens on 30 March, which is only the third day on record with a UK March temperature exceeding 24C. A daily minimum of 12.7C at Kinloss in Moray that day was also Scotland’s equal highest March daily minimum. After this brief warm interlude, cold and snowy conditions returned rather abruptly with...
Early summer was relatively uneventful for UK weather, although parts of southeast England received up to twice their average rainfall for June. During mid-July there was a more significant heatwave and the Met Office issued its first-ever amber extreme heat warningfor western parts of the UK. On 17 July, Ballywatticock in County Down recorded a te...
Autumn was persistently warmer than average, with a temperature of 30.8C recorded at Hartpury College in Gloucestershire on the 7 September. It was the second warmest September on record for the UK, and for Northern Ireland its warmest – with temperatures approaching 2C above the 1991-2020 average. With an average temperature of 14.7C for the UK, S...
Jul 28, 2022 · Temperature. In what was in some regards a relatively unremarkable year in the UK’s recent climatology, the maximum temperature recorded in 2021 was 32.2°C. Compared to years from recent decades this was a relatively low peak temperature, but is still considerably warmer than the average hottest day of the year for the period 1961-1990 of 31 ...
Oct 14, 2021 · 14/10/2021 10:23 4 min. We have again had spells of unseasonably warm weather this week and although it looks like we are in for a cooler northerly blast in the next few days, we can expect another warm spell early next week. Overall, for the rest of the month, low pressure looks set to dominate our weather and this usually brings unsettled ...
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Dec 18, 2020 · UK Met Office scientists are forecasting that 2021 will be a little cooler around the world, but will still be one of the top six warmest years. The La Niña weather phenomenon will see ...
