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The Meteorological Office, abbreviated as the Met Office, [2] is the United Kingdom's national weather and climate service. It is an executive agency and trading fund of the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology and is led by CEO [ 3 ] Penelope Endersby , who took on the role as Chief Executive in December 2018 and is the first woman to do so. [ 4 ]
The Met Office region of South West England, shown within England. [ 1] The climate of south-west England is classed as oceanic ( Cfb) according to the Köppen climate classification. The oceanic climate is typified by frequent cloudy skies, cool winters with cool summers and precipitation all year round, with more experienced in winter.
United Kingdom weather records. Cambridge Botanic Garden Weather Station where a temperature of 38.7 °C (101.7 °F) was recorded in the 2019 European heat wave. The United Kingdom weather records show the most extreme weather ever recorded in the United Kingdom, such as temperature, wind speed, and rainfall records.
Source: The Met Office: averages, sunshine, precipitation; [21] extremes [2] Below is a list of record temperatures for Northern Ireland, according to the UK Met Office . Both the highest and the lowest temperatures were set in Castlederg in County Tyrone .
The England and Wales Precipitation (EWP) record is a historical meteorological dataset which was originally published in the journal British Rainfall in 1931 and updated in a greatly revised form by a number of climatologists including Janice Lough, Tom Wigley and Phil Jones during the 1970s and 1980s. The monthly mean rainfall and snowfall for the region of England and Wales are given (in ...
The climate of Wales refers to the weather conditions prevailing in Wales in general or over a long period. Wales has warmer temperatures throughout the year than Northern Ireland and Scotland and has milder winter minima than England, but cooler winter maxima than Northern Ireland. Wales is wetter throughout the year than Northern Ireland and ...
The climate of Liverpool features a temperate maritime variety ( Köppen: Cfb ), with relatively mild summers, cool winters and rainfall spread fairly evenly throughout the year. Since 1867, rainfall and temperature records for the city have been kept at Bidston Observatory, as well as atmospheric pressure records since 1846.
Temperatures are expected to climb in the coming days reaching the mid-20s by the middle of the week and then up to 30C in places, the Met Office predicts, as a surge of warm air will envelop the ...