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2019: How hot, how cold, how wet and how stormy?

As Mostly Weather returns, Clare Nasir unpicks details of the annual State of the UK Climate 2019 report released on 31st July 2020

Clare talks numbers with Met Offcie Scientist Dr Mark McCarthy, learning about how last year sat in terms of overall UK climate. She gets an overview of why the report is so important from Prof Liz Bentley from the Royal Meteorological Society and as this year’s report also includes a section on phenology, Clare talks to Darren Moorcroft, CEO of the Woodland Trust who talks about the impact of a changing climate on the UK’s tree population.

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Met Office State of UK Climate report 2019

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