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Spotlight on 'climate monitoring' |
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During July, we have been focussing on climate monitoring with a series of blog posts to help explain this. We have looked at the importance of historical data, current observations – including those from around the globe – and also the monitoring of climate adaptation. Experts have shared their knowledge in a series of blog posts.
 The challenges of urban observations in weather and climate monitoring were highlighted in the first blog post in which we also explored the value of crowdsourcing observations through platforms such as WOW.
 The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) supports global climate monitoring and shared information on their work with meteorological services around the world. They also explained climate normals and the challenges of gathering enough data.
 Past weather data is critical to enable us to understand past climate and also to inform what the future might hold. Mark McCarthy, Scientific Manager in the National Climate Information Centre, wrote about climate monitoring through historical data and referenced the recent heatwave.
 The Met Office Surface Marine Observations Team manage a variety of operational surface marine observing networks both in UK waters and on a global scale to deliver in-situ, real-time observations of meteorological & oceanographic conditions. They recently collaborated with British adventurers, the Turner Twins, who will be assisting them by deploying a drifting observational buoy in the most remote point of the Atlantic – the pole of inaccessibility.
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 On Monday and Tuesday last week, large parts of the UK experienced unprecedented extreme heat conditions, with temperatures exceeding 40°C in some regions – never before seen in the UK. These temperatures posed a range of hazardous impacts, including impacts to infrastructure, health risks and fires. A new event summary from the Met Office shows that the UK’s recent extreme heat was far more intense and widespread than previous comparable heatwaves.
 In the latest episode of our Weather Snap podcast, we hear what it was like forecasting during the heatwave, the impacts as they occurred in France and the part played by climate change.
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Tomorrow, on 28 July, the Royal Meteorological Society will publish the latest State of the UK Climate report by the Met Office, providing an up-to-date assessment on the UK’s climate for the year 2021. Follow #StateOfUKClimate on Twitter for all the latest.
In August, the American Meteorological Society will publish its annual State of the Global Climate report in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS). The report is an international publication, based on contributions from scientists across the globe, including Met Office scientists, and provides a detailed update on the current state of the global climate. We'll be sharing news of the report once it is published, stay tuned to our social media channels for the latest updates.
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