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Experts to examine UK weather
Leading forecasters and scientists are due to meet at The Met Office in Exeter today to discuss what is causing the UK's unusual weather conditions.
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Summit will examine extreme weather records
Snow or sleet now falls on the UK an average of 33 days a year according to figures from the Met Office between 1971 and 2000.
Meteorologists and scientists meet this afternoon at the Met Office to discuss recent, unusual weather patterns in the UK.
The Met Office records the most extreme weather as follows:
- March 2013: Coldest since 1962
- April 2012: Wettest ever on record
- Spring 2012: Warmest ever
- Highest daily maximum temperature record: 38.5C, August, 10, 2003, Faversham (Kent)
- Lowest daily minimum temperature record: -27.2C, February 11, 1895, Braemar (Aberdeenshire)
- Highest 24-hour rainfall totals for a rainfall day: (0900-0900 GMT): 279mm, July 18, 1955, Martinstown (Dorset)
- Gust speed: 142mph, February 13, 1989, Fraserburgh (Aberdeenshire)
- Snow: Between 22 January and 17 March, 1947 snow fell every day somewhere in the country
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March 2013 coldest on record since 1962
- March 2013 was the coldest on record since 1962
- The average average temperature in March was 2.2C - 3.3 degrees below the average temperature for that time of year.
- A reading of -11.2C was taken in Braemar, Aberdeenshire, on April 2, making it the coldest night since 1917.
Experts to examine 'unusual seasons' in UK
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Experts to discuss UK's unusual weather conditions
Leading forecasters and scientists are due to meet to discuss what is causing the UK's unusual weather conditions.
It comes after the freezing winter of 2010, last year's droughts and floods and the coldest spring for more than 50 years.
Discussions at the Met Office in Exeter will seek to answer whether the unusual seasons were the result of natural variation or linked to impacts of climate change, such as melting Arctic sea ice, which could be influencing weather
What's happening to our weather - the jet stream may have the answers
Meteorologists say the Jet Stream has now slipped, meaning the sunshine has given way to wet and windy weather.
Now experts at the Met Office are meeting next week to try to work out what is happening to our summers, and whether the trends of the last few years can be put down to the UK's varied conditions.
Or is there a more serious climate change imminent. David Woodland reports.
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