July 27, 2023

State of the UK Climate 2022

The State of the UK Climate 2022 report examines how the UK’s climate last year compares to previous years, including information on notable meteorological extremes, how the UK extremes of temperature are changing compared with the average temperature, and the climate drivers behind the UK’s record warm year of 2022.

The paper was published in the Royal Meteorological Society’s International Journal of Climatology on Thursday 27 July.

Speakers included:

Mike Kendon, Climate Scientist at the Met Office and lead author

Prof Liz Bentley, Chief Executive of the Royal Meteorological Society

Dr Svetlana Jevrejeva, Leader of Sea Level and Ocean Climate, National Oceanography Centre

Fritha West, Research Scientist, Woodland Trust