Extreme weather the UK’s new normal

Britain is repeatedly breaking the records of heat and rainfall as its climate continues to heat up, the meteorological office has warned.

The pattern of the country’s changing weather means that the UK now experiences “especially different” climate, a few decades ago, in the state of the UK climate report.

According to this latest assessment, now we have many more hot days and many have very little cold nights.

This shows that global warming creates our civilization due to the huge emission of greenhouse gases, which is re -shaping the country’s climate.

Climate change is bringing more severe weather events such as storms and floods – and essentially the changing climate of the country is affecting the natural world, some species suffer.

Report focuses on 2024, when the UK experienced its second hottest February, the hottest May, the hottest spring, the fifth most hot December, and the fifth most hot winter because the record began in 1884.

Met office has highlighted that some of these records have already crossed in 2025 – more evidence of this trend towards more extreme weather.

In this summer, many parts of the country are around their third heatwave with a very hot weather in Southern England along with Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland.

The first hosspipe ban of the year was imposed in Yorkshire last week After England’s hottest June on the record, which came after the country’s most dry and most sunshine for 132 years.

Yorkshire and North West of England were declared in official drought By the Environment Agency in June. At least one area is expected to be added to the list when the UK national drought group is found on Tuesday.

Mike Kendon, a Mike Climate scientist and lead author of the UK Climate Report, said: “Every year what happens is another upward step on the warming trajectory, which is on our climate.

“Overview shows that our climate in the UK is now particularly different what it was a few decades ago.”

As an island between the giant Atlantic Ocean and continental Europe, the UK sits at the intersection of a full range of major air people. That is why the climate of the country is such a variability and this variability makes some climate changes more difficult.

The rain pattern causes a lot of ups and downs compared to the temperature, the Met office says, but it finds that, as well as warming, the UK is also getting wet, there is a lot of increase in rainfall during winter. Between October and March, the rainfall in 2015-2024 was 16% higher than in 1961–1990, it says.

All these changes have a tireless increase in the average temperature run by climate change, the meteorological office says. The global temperature since the industrial revolution has exceeded 1.3C as humans continue to release carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere at an unprecedented rate.

The Met Office has been calculated that the UK is heating up at a rate of about 0.25C per decade, the period of 2015-2024 compared to the period of 1.24c warmer 1961-1990.

As the UK’s National Meteorological Service, the Met Office is the mentor of the temperature records of Central England, the longest lasting weather records in the world, depending on the measurements taken using thermometer and other equipment. It extends from 1659 to current and indicates that recent warming exceeds any observed temperature over 300 years.

The last three years have been in the UK’s top five hottest records, the fourth most hot dating in the record with 2024 has been dating back in 1884.

Even a small innings in temperature can significantly increase the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events, as the graph below shows.

Look, how, as the distribution of temperature, which were earlier extremes, they are brought to the border and are quite more likely in the new extreme limit.

We are often talking about how it used to cool back during the day. Well which is borne by the data of the Met office. We are really rapidly getting less cold days. The Met Office says that there were 14 short days with air frusts – when the air temperature falls below zero in the last decade compared to the period 1931 to 1990.

In recent years, floods and storms last year caused the worst weather damage in Britain.

The UK, starting in the autumn of 2023, helped a series of nominated storms to cause widespread floods in early January. Half of winter in more than 250 years – from October 2023 to March 2024 contributed.

The floods particularly badly killed by the floods included Eastern Scotland, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and West Midlands, with some places their normal rainfall for September was recorded three to four times.

Royal Shakespeare Company had to cancel the performance for two consecutive evenings in early January 2024 Stratford-on-Aven due to floodsA wall collaps After water in a local Brook, the city center flooded,

Met office chief scientist Professor Stephen Belty said that evidence of the effects of climate change is already coming out, which is suited for the UK to cope with the future extremes.

“The climate is likely to continue to change, and we need to prepare for the effects that will be on the season of our experience,” he said.

For the first time this report highlights that the sea level of Britain is growing faster than the global average.

Dr. of National Oceanography Center Svetlana Jeverejeva says that the sea level continues to rise around Britain.

“We know from historical events that it is only a matter of time until Britain is in the way of a major storm growth,” he said.

The changing climate of Britain is essentially affecting the natural world.

In 2024, 12 out of 13 spring events on spring records were before the average to average and the first in the series was the first for frogspon appearance and Blackbirds Nesting.

The time of seasonal activity in plants and animals is known as phenology and it is collected by a network of volunteers coordinated by the calendar civil science project of nature.

Changing patterns of natural phenomena can have a major effect. Dermis and Hedgehogs – Two of the two most dangerous mammals in the UK are particularly affected when the weather is very hot, for example.

Fruits and nuts ripen in the first hot weather and means that there are less available in autumn when these animals are trying to build fat reserves they need to see them through winter.

Outside London, they are investigating at Alice Holt Forest Research Center as to how our trees and forests can be made more flexible for the future climate of the country.

The sad fact is that many of our current tree species cannot just face, Dr. GAIL Atkinson, who is the head of climate change science at the Center.

“After a drought you can see a low growth, so trees are not growing because we will expect them,” she says.

“If you see in the canopy then you can see the leaves a little ragdie and there are other signs of stress because you are passing through Woodland, including extreme examples, you can find that trees are actually dead.”

Studies in Elis Holt show a species that can do well because the UK can be hot and wet, there are coastal redwood from California. It has been growing trees from different latitudes for the last 60 years how they rent in the UK climate.

This means that, in the coming decades, the world’s tallest trees can become a common view in Britain.