Alex Deakin

It's been a very mild day across the UK, especially for England and Wales

Here are today's top temperatures across each of the four nations 👇

Middle aged man wearing glasses and a green and blue anorak is outside with eyes closed and face turned to the winter sun with a hedge and blue sky behind him.

Roses are red🌹
The weather’s been sh*tty 🌧️
So get outside today 😃
And enjoy the apricity ☀️

Met Office blog post 13 February 2026 The school-taught physics that helps us understand space weather

In the first of a new series of Deeper Dive YouTube exclusives, Alex Deakin had an in-depth discussion with Professor Craig Rodger from the University of Otago, an expert on space weather and its impacts on the electricity network.

Read more: www.metoffice.gov.uk/blog/2026/de...

No it's not your imagination

UK weather is getting wetter

Double-decker bus with blue and red striped design, that demonstrates average temperature change across more than 100 years, parked on wet pavement under overcast sky.

Sustainable transport 🤝 Climate communication

As Reading continued to experience the longest unbroken spell of rainfall ever recorded in the town, it was fitting that Reading Buses were launching a new fleet of electric buses, including this beauty featuring the #ClimateStripes ♥️

#ShowYourStripes

It’s like… Groundhog Day

January 2026 Provision early UK statistics Above average rainfall Below average temperatures Below average sunshine

We’ll be releasing our full Jan 2026 statistics on Mon 2 Feb.
But early provisional Met Office UK statistics show Jan has seen:

👉 Above average rainfall – wettest in Northern Ireland, with southern England also very wet compared to average
👉 Below average temperatures
👉 Just below average sunshine

Which option do we choose - act or delay?

These are the 'warning' stripes highlighting global choices. Do we act rapidly and keep global temperatures below 2°C, or delay and end up in a 3°C world (or worse)?

The heat energy we added to the ocean LAST YEAR is the equivalent of:
- Detonating ten hydrogen bombs every minute
- operating over a hundred large power plants continuously for all of written human history
- Five times all the electricity human beings have ever used

Globally, no single day in 2025 was cooler than its 1991-2020 average.
climate.copernicus.eu/global-clima...

Details: This imagery contains the Day Cloud Phase Distinction product from the JPSS weather satellites. It was captured at 12:57 UTC on 2026-01-08.

Storm Goretti as seen from polar-orbiting satellites as it approached the UK.

A table of the top gust speeds recorded so far as a result of Storm Goretti. The highest so far is currently 99 mph, recorded at St Mary's Airport in the Isles of Scilly.

The highest gust speed as a result of Storm Goretti is currently 99 mph, recorded at St Mary's Airport in the Isles of Scilly, making it a new record for the site

Here are the top gust speeds so far 👇

Rapidly deepening #StormGoretti approaching from the SW

The most intense winds on its southern and western side

⚠️⚠️🔴 Red weather warning issued 🔴⚠️⚠️

Wind across the Isles of Scilly and parts of Cornwall

Thursday 16:00 – 23:00

Latest info 👉 bit.ly/WxWarning

Stay #WeatherAware ⚠️

Watch 100 years of December sea surface temperature anomalies updated through 2025. There's a lot of year-to-year variability, but a clear long-term warm signal is evident over time due to human-caused climate change. 🌊

Data from psl.noaa.gov/data/gridded...

Although its very cold at the moment in the UK, 2025 was both the warmest (with a mean temperature of 10.09°C) and sunniest (1648.5 hours) on record. Here is a climate and weather #dataviz summary for the last year. #climatechange #globalwarming.

YouTube video by Met Office - UK Weather Week Ahead 05/01/2026 – Rain, wind and snow for some – Met Office weather forecast UK

With Arctic air surrounding the UK, weather systems will move in from the west and southwest resulting in a messy mix of rain, wind, snow and ice in many places.

Find out more in the Week Ahead forecast with Aidan McGivern
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8ol...

It's the most magical time of the year — when estimates of last year's global average temperature anomaly come out. Time to dust off my "last year was hot" auto-response.

A map of the UK showing snow depths across the nations. 9 cm in Castlederg, 18cm in Sennybridge, 52cm in Tomintoul and 6 cm in Bridlington.

Wondering how much snow has fallen? ❄️

Here are the highest snow depths from all 4 nations over the past few days👇

UK ‘already seeing impact of climate change’, says Met Office scientist The Met Office announced today that 2025 was the warmest and sunniest year in the UK since records began, beating the previous record set only three years ago.

The scientific evidence is absolutely crystal clear:

We are certain the world is warming because we're burning fossil fuels and putting more greenhouse gases in the atmosphere

So we have to stop doing that

We also need to adapt to the changes we've already caused

www.channel4.com/news/uk-alre...

Map of the UK with minimum temperatures on the morning of Wednesday 31 December 2025. Braemar, Scotland = -9.6℃ Shap, England = -8.1℃ Katesbridge, Northern Ireland = -6.8℃ Sennybridge, Wales = -6.4℃

The last day of 2025 has gotten off to a widely frosty start

Temperatures plummeted across all four home nations 🥶

A white plate with sourdough toast topped with Christmas leftovers including goose in mayo, stuffing and cranberry sauce.

If leftovers aren’t your favourite bit of Christmas food are you even doing it right?

Probably not… but my team needs surgery.

He’s just getting into his flo, Slot has to start him

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Lots of chat about colder weather coming but from everything I’ve seen Thursday looks like a shoo-in for warmest day of the year so far….

😬

Burning fossil fuels causes the climate to change and many extreme weather events to become more severe. #fact

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Only 3 more Mondays until the nights start drawing out #funfact

Storm Claudia, named by @aemet.es, will affect the UK on Friday

Heavy rain and strong winds will bring disruption and possible flooding

Warnings are in force so stay #WeatherAware ⚠️