In an era defined by environmental uncertainty, the need to fortify our communities against the impacts of climate change has never been more pressing. Climate resilience...
It will be no surprise for many to hear that April 2024 has been a wet month. In what has felt like an unsettled spring so...
Each year, from June-October, polar climate scientists from the Met Office produce a series of monthly sea ice briefings for the government and the general public....
A numerical ocean model is a computer programme representing the equations of motion (momentum, conservation of mass and thermodynamics) for the ocean. The model stores each...
The Met Office launches this year’s Pollen Forecast today (Friday 22 March) which will run until mid-September. One in five people in the UK suffer from...
Today is the United Nations International Day of Forests, and in this blog post we explore the importance of this work. The Climate and Plant Biosecurity...
For the first time since records began in the mid 20th century , this extended winter period (November to March) is the first in our observational records...
Today (1 March 2024) is the first day of meteorological spring. We cannot yet guarantee exactly what this spring will bring, but wildlife will be betting...
Our weather is notoriously changeable – that is partly what makes it one of the nation’s talking points. But peering through the statistics a striking pattern...
January 2024 brought a month of contrasts to the UK weather, with three named storms, a significant spell of cold, wintry weather and finally a new...