Global warming is rapidly increasing the number of hot summer days in the UK and intensifying heat waves, with an outside ...

A Met Office study warns that 40°C heatwaves are now 20 times more likely in the UK than in the 1960s. Southern England could ...

In a study published in Weather , researchers estimated the current chances and characteristics of extreme hot episodes in the UK, and how they have ...

Adam Scaife of the Met Office Hadley Centre said the predictions by the UN agency, which gathers global, regional and national data sets, were “shocking” because they showed that years in ...

The chances are "exceptionally unlikely", probably no more than 1%, said Prof Adam Scaife from the Met Office Hadley Centre, who worked on the report.

A spokesman for the Met Office said: "We've received many reports of an illuminated swirl in the sky. "This is likely to be caused by the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, launched earlier today.

Climate activists gather with signs for a demonstration calling upon the G20 conference to adhere to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius compared to pre-industrial levels, at the ...

Met Office Academic Partnership . The University of Leeds is a founding member of the Met Office Academic Partnership. The roles are funded by the University of Leeds as part of its strategic ...