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Jul 26, 2023 · The report examines the weather of 2022 in the context of long-term climate records and highlights how the UK’s climate continues to change, with recent decades warmer, wetter, and sunnier than the 20th century.
Jul 27, 2023 · 2022 was a record-breaking year for weather and is a sign of the UK’s changing climate. The latest Met Office ‘ State of the UK Climate ’ report has been published today in the Society's International Journal of Climatology, examining the weather of 2022 in the context of long-term climate records.
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- The Year in Summary
- Central England Temperature Series
- Attribution
- Weather Through The Year
Our observational records show that 2022 was – for the majority of the country – warm, dry and sunny. The maps below show the average temperature (left), rainfall amount (middle) and sunshine duration (right) across the UK during 2022. The darkest shading shows the areas of the country that saw the warmest (red), driest (brown) and sunniest (yellow...
Currently, our official statistics for the UK go back to 1884 for temperature, 1836 for rainfalland 1919 for sunshine. These reflect the amount of digitised observational records we have in order to produce robust UK-wide statistics. Earlier instrumental weather records do exist for the UK, and ongoing data recovery activities to digitise historica...
We conducted an attribution studyfor 2022 to quantify how human-caused climate change has influenced the likelihood of the UK recording annual average temperature in excess of 10C. We use a Met Office system developed for rapid attribution of extreme events. It is built upon well-established and peer-reviewed risk-based methodology that estimates t...
Unsurprisingly, with 2022 being the warmest year on record, it saw an abundance of temperatures well above their seasonal average. The chart below shows daily UK average temperatures through 2022, where the orange peaks are periods above average for the time of year and blue troughs show below average periods. (Note that the chart shows UK-wide ave...
Dec 28, 2022 · All four seasons in 2022 were in the top 10 warmest on record for the UK. Winter was the eighth warmest, spring the fifth warmest, summer the fourth warmest and autumn the third warmest. Dr Mark...
Jul 26, 2023 · Updates compared to State of UK Climate 2021. Anomaly maps and summary tables for the most recent decade (2013–2022) have been added for temperature, rainfall and sunshine. UKCP plots to year 2100 have been added for temperature and rainfall.
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