This summer was officially the UK’s warmest since records began in 1884, according to provisional statistics from the Met Office which show that the mean temperature for June 1 to August 31 was 16.1°C – 1.51°C above the long-term meteorological average for the period.

The previous hottest was summer 2018, with a mean temperature of 15.76°C. The summer of 1976, often used as a reference point for hot, dry UK summers, has now been pushed out of the top five warmest summers. All of the top five hottest summers have occurred since 2000.

Met Office scientist Dr Emily Carlisle explained, “The persistent warmth this year has been driven by a combination of factors including the domination of high-pressure systems, unusually warm seas around the UK and the dry spring soils.

Continue reading Summer 2025 was the UK’s hottest on record, Met Office reports at Meteorological Technology International.

A new artificial intelligence tool has been developed by a research team at the University of Miami that can track the early signs of hurricane formation, and has the potential to be used to improve prediction and early warning systems.

The AI tool can identify tropic easterly waves (TEWs) – “clusters of cloud and wind that often develop into hurricanes”, explains the University of Miami – and separate them from two major tropical wind patterns: the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) and the monsoon trough (MT).

“With this wave tracking tool, we have a new way to detect different patterns, and the types of systems that can grow into hurricanes,” said Will Downs, a PhD student in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the Rosenstiel School who led the development of the system.

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The American Meteorological Society has announced its 2026 Awards and Honors, recognizing the individuals and organizations that have made “outstanding contributions” to weather, water and climate research.

“Through its awards AMS recognizes some of the many, many exceptional people working across the weather, water and climate enterprise to benefit humanity,” said AMS past president Anjuli Bamzai, chair of the AMS Awards Oversight Committee.

“Even as our community is facing a time of unprecedented upheaval, the role we play in society remains crucial and only grows in importance. From emergency managers and meteorologists on the front lines alerting the public about disasters like Hurricane Helene, to educators and mentors, to researchers making transformative advances in understanding, this year’s honorees have made vital contributions.”

Science and technology medals and prizes will be awarded, alongside awards for service, teaching and mentorship, journalism and broadcasting, and outstanding contributions, among others.

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Scientists at the University of Washington in the USA have used artificial intelligence to simulate the Earth’s climate and its potential annual variations for up to 1,000 years into the future, in order to better predict so-called ‘100-year’ extreme weather events. What’s more, the AI model they’re developing takes only 12 hours to generate this long-range forecast, compared to the 90 days a supercomputer would take.

“We are developing a tool that examines the variability in our current climate to help answer this lingering question: Is a given event the kind of thing that happens naturally, or not?” said Dale Durran, a UW professor of atmospheric and climate science.

Continue reading University of Washington uses AI to simulate “1,000 years of the current climate in just one day” at Meteorological Technology International.

Statistics from the UK’s Met Office suggest that this year’s summer will most likely be the hottest on record, moving summer 2018 into second place.

“Provisional Met Office statistics show that summer 2025 will almost certainly be the warmest summer on record,” said Met Office scientist Emily Carlisle.

“At present, mean temperature is tracking at 16.13°C. The current record is 15.76°C, set in 2018. So, unless temperatures are around 4°C below average for the rest of August – which the forecast does not suggest – it looks like the current record will be exceeded.

“This would move 1976 out of the top five warmest summers since 1884, leaving all five warmest summers having occurred since the year 2000.

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According to a new study led by the UK’s University of Reading, future changes in ozone could cause the world to warm more than had been originally expected.

Stopping the production of HCFCs and CFCs, and the harm they were causing to the ozone layer that protects Earth from ultraviolet radiation, has enabled the ozone layer to recover. However, when this increase in ozone is combined with an increase air poll

Professor Bill Collins, lead author from the University of Reading, said, “Countries are doing the right thing by continuing to ban chemicals called CFCs and HCFCs that damage the ozone layer above Earth.

Continue reading “Ozone will warm the planet more than we thought”, reports University of Reading at Meteorological Technology International.

The American Meteorological Society’s 35th annual State of the Climate report has revealed that 2024 was a record setting year – with greenhouse gas concentrations, global temperature across land and sea, global sea level, ocean heat content and glacier ice loss all reaching record highs last year.

“The State of the Climate report is an annual scientific landmark. It is a truly global effort, in which hundreds of researchers from universities, government agencies and more come together to provide a careful, rigorously peer-reviewed report on our planet’s climate,” said American Meteorological Society president David J Stensrud.

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Come rain or shine, there is one thing that people in the UK are always ready to talk about – the weather. Whether it is the stereotypical rain that is readily associated with this grey collection of islands at the northwestern edge of Europe, or hot summers like that of 2025, nothing gets the Brits chattering like a good gossip about the weather.

New research conducted by the UK’s Met Office has discovered that people in the UK spend, on average, about 56.6 hours each year talking about the weather. That’s more than two full days out of a calendar 365.

Continue reading “Still raining?”: Met Office reveals UK public’s interest in the weather at Meteorological Technology International.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has retired the last two operational satellites in its long-serving POES (Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellites) constellation, which has been gathering weather and climate data from around the world for more than 40 years.

NOAA-15 was decommissioned on August 19 and NOAA-19 on August 13, 2025, following the emergency passivation of NOAA-18 on June 6, 2025, after the satellite lost functionality of its transmitter in late May. This brought to an end an environmental satellite mission that had run for 47 years.

The first POES satellite was launched in 1978 to monitor Earth’s weather and environment.

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A new chapter on image velocimetry has been added by the World Meteorological Organization to its Guide to Hydrological Practice, providing information to its members on the benefits of these innovative cost-effective methods for measuring rivers and streams.

“The inclusion of image velocimetry in the WMO Guide provides confidence and clarity on the use and applicability of these techniques,” the WMO said in a statement. “By adding this chapter, WMO signals to practitioners, institutions and decision-makers that these methods, after years of innovation, testing and collaboration across the global community, are no longer experimental, but part of the recognized hydrometric toolkit.”

Image velocimetry uses cameras and video analysis to estimate surface flow velocities in rivers and streams.

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