Met office climate report 2018

The Met Office have published their annual State of the UK Climate report for 2018. Some of its key findings are:

• Nine of the 10 warmest years for the UK have occurred since 2002 and all the top 10 warmest years have occurred since 1990.
• The most recent decade (2008–2017) has been on average 0.3 °C warmer than the 1981–2010 average and 0.8 °C warmer than 1961–1990.
• Seven of the 10 wettest years for the UK have occurred since 1998.
• Mean sea level around the UK has risen by approximately 1.4 mm/year from the start of the 20th century, when corrected for land movement.

Please see 2018 report here

The study Human contribution to the record-breaking July 2019 heat wave in Western Europe, published by World Weather Attribution, assessed how human-induced climate change has altered the likelihood and intensity of the July event or similar events.