Let’s face it – weather is our favourite topic. CCMs are experts in the application of weather information to a host of practical challenges. Extreme events have become more frequent, leading researchers to examine aspects of a more volatile.Extreme weather events have been occurring more frequently than natural variability would suggest. Autumn rainfall records were broken for South Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire, and Lincolnshire, with the previous records set in 2000.

These are external links and will open in a new window.The UN has warned that the world needs to limit climate change to below 1.5C above pre-industrial levels. Compared with the average summer rainfall between 1981-2010, these counties saw 179%, 174% and 173%, respectively.Scotland was very wet overall as it recorded its second wettest summer, only surpassed by summer 1985.Tim added: “The picture for each of the three months was different depending on where you were in the UK. Thunderstorms and intense rainfall caused flooding across parts of northern England on 30th and 31st July.Overall Summer 2019 was the twelfth warmest on record since 1910 across the UK, but unusually this summer was also relatively wet.

Commodities will be vulnerable to direct impacts, such as changes in crop and livestock development and yield, as well as indirect impacts from pests and pathogens that emerge in some volatile patterns.Aviation is also experiencing impacts of climate change and increased volatility. England as a whole has had its fifth wettest autumn with 348mm. It reached its lowest point on record in 2012.Sea ice has been reducing for decades, with melting accelerating since the early 2000s.The Arctic Ocean may be ice-free in the summer as soon as the 2050s, unless emissions are reduced, the committee has said.The extent of Arctic sea ice in 2019 was tied with 2007 and 2016 as the second lowest on record. But this wasn’t the case across the whole of the UK.There was been a marked difference in rainfall amounts between eastern parts of England and north western Scotland. In total it recorded 474.8mm, breaking its previous record of 425.2mm also set in 2000.The location with the highest total through the autumn was Holne - on the southern edge of Dartmoor, in Devon - with 899mm. The driest spot was Shoeburyness, in Essex, with 148mm.Conversely, northern and western Scotland have been much drier than average, with our north Scotland climate region having just 69% of the seasonal average (364.1mm).In comparison to the rainfall distribution in 2000 - when many autumn records were set - this season’s highest rainfall accumulations were focused in the East Midlands. Southern England and Wales endured the heaviest rainfall in June, whereas Scotland and northernmost parts of England saw the heaviest rainfall in August.”.The mean temperature for the UK for summer 2019 was 15.2 C, which was 0.8 C above the long-term average between 1981-2010.The UK sunshine figures overall were close to average, but some locations received more sunshine.

2. These events have significantly impacted both regional and local areas throughout the United States. Almost 400 all-time high temperatures were set in the northern hemisphere during the summer of 2019. At any given time, on … It is an alarm clock set at a horrifying volume. The mind-melting blast of heat that struck western Europe this week left a trail of all-time records in the dust. Previous hot summers have been largely dry but this summer was 7th wettest overall in the UK in a series dating back to 1910.”.Meteorological summer includes June, July and August.