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Vice-Admiral Robert Fitzroy was the founder of the UK Met Office which was formed in 1854. It is the UK’s National Weather Service operating from Exeter in Devon. Not all its staff of about 1700 work in Devon but are spread throughout the world in 60 locations. Since 2016 it is part of the Department for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy. In December 2018 Penelope Endersby took over as Chief Executive. The organisation is the world’s leader in providing accurate weather forecasting and research into climate change which it has been doing for more than 20 years. The men and women who work for the Met Office provide a vast array of services which benefit mankind.
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This website will examine the climate of the United Kingdom together with its weather conditions. Our climate is part of a global pattern of weather travelling to our shores across the North Atlantic with the aid of the high altitude jet streams of air. Most of the data will be supplied by the UK and the Icelandic Met Offices and by the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration was formed on the 3 October 1970 to amalgamate the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey the Weather Survey and the U.S. Commission Fish and Fisheries.
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The Icelandic Met Office is a public institution under the auspices of the Ministry for the Environment and Natural Resources historically based on the Icelandic Met Office and the Icelandic Hydrological Survey. They merged in 2009. The Icelandic Met Office has 135 full-time employees.
Climate Change
Includes both the global warming driven by human emissions of greenhouse gases and the resulting large-scale shifts in weather patterns. Though there have been previous periods of climatic change since the mid-20th century the rate of human impact on Earth's climate system and its global scale have been unprecedented. The largest driver has been the emission of greenhouse gases of which more than 90% are carbon dioxide and methane. Fossil fuel burning for energy consumption is the main source of these emissions with additional contributions from agriculture deforestation and industrial processes. Temperature rise is accelerated or tempered by climate feedbacks such as loss of sunlight-reflecting snow and ice cover increased water vapour - a greenhouse gas itself - and changes to land and ocean carbon sinks. Because land surfaces heat faster than ocean surfaces deserts are expanding and heat-waves and wildfires are more common. Environmental effects include the extinction or relocation of many species as their ecosystems change most immediately in coral reefs mountains and the Arctic.
Climate in a narrow sense is usually defined as the "average weather" or more rigorously as the statistical description in terms of the mean and variability of relevant quantities over a period ranging from months to thousands or millions of years. The classical period is 30 years as defined by the World Meteorological Organisation. These quantities are most often surface variables such as temperature precipitation and wind.
Copernicus Climate Bulletin March 2026
March 2026 was the fourth-warmest March globally, with an average surface air temperature of 13.94°C, 0.53°C above the 1991-2020 average for March, according to the ERA5 dataset. The warmest March on record was in 2024. March 2026 was 1.48°C above the estimated 1850-1900 average used to define the pre-industrial level. The average temperature over European land for March 2026 was the second warmest at 5.88°C, 2.27°C above the 1991-2020 average for March. The warmest March on record was in 2025.
Copernicus Climate Bulletin April 2026
April 2026 was the joint third-warmest April globally, with an average surface air temperature of 14.89°C, 0.52°C above the 1991-2020 average for April, according to the ERA5 dataset. The warmest April on record was in 2024 and the second warmest in 2025. April 2026 was 1.43°C above the estimated 1850-1900 average used to define the pre-industrial level.
Copernicus Climate Bulletin May 2026
The global average temperature for May 2026 was 15.81°C, 0.55°C above the 1991-2020 average for May and 1.42°C above the estimated 1850-1900 pre-industrial average for the month. May 2026 was the second-warmest May on record globally, slightly warmer (+0.02°C) than the third-warmest May in 2025 and 0.10°C cooler than the warmest May in 2024. The average global temperature for the last 12 months (June 2025 to May 2026) was 0.55°C above the 1991-2020 average, and 1.43°C above the 1850-1900 pre-industrial average.
Copernicus Climate Bulletin June 2026
June 2026 was the second-warmest June globally. Western Europe experienced its warmest June on record and Europe as a whole its second-warmest June, with an intense heat wave affecting much of the continent during the second half of June. Sea surface temperature over the extra-polar ocean was the highest on record for June, with developing El Niño conditions in the equatorial Pacific. In June 2026, Arctic sea ice extent ranked sixth-lowest for the month, with particularly low sea ice cover in the northern Barents Sea around Svalbard and Franz Josef Land.
State of the Global Climate in 2025 Published on the 23 March 2026
