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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.
State of the Global Climate 2025 Published on the 23 March 2026
Copernicus Climate Bulletin February 2026
February 2026 was the fifth-warmest February globally, with an average surface air temperature of 13.26°C, 0.53°C above the 1991-2020 average for February, according to the ERA5 dataset. The warmest February on record was in 2024.
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.
The average sea surface temperature for March 2026 over 60°S–60°N was 20.97°C, the second-highest value on record for the month. The warmest March on record was in 2024 during the last El Niño event. A transition from neutral to El Niño conditions is forecast by many climate centres for the second half of the year.
The daily sea surface temperature steadily increased throughout March and is approaching the record values set in 2024.
Averaging over 12-month periods smoothing out shorter-term variations in regional-and global-average temperatures. Globally, the annual average for the latest 12-month period (April 2025 to March 2026) was 0.55°C above the 1991-2020 average, and 1.43°C above the estimated 1850-1900 average used to define the pre-industrial level.
Copernicus Climate Bulletin January 2026
0.51°C warmer than the 1991-2020 average for January, with an absolute surface air temperature of 12.95°C. The fifth-warmest January on record, 0.28°C cooler than the warmest January on record in 2025.1.47°C warmer than an estimate of the pre-industrial January average for 1850-1900. The average land temperature over European for January 2026 was -2.34°C, 1.63°C below the 1991-2020 average for January, making it the coldest January since 2010.