Met Office News
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The wheat crop in the U.K., the European Union’s third-largest grower, may be bigger than previously expected after drier weather in the past two months allowed plant development to accelerate.
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The U.K. lost a third of its honeybee colonies during the winter of 2012-13, the highest rate since an annual survey began, after adverse weather last year prevented bees from leaving hives to seek pollen.
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The U.K.’s wheat area may be 29 percent smaller than a year earlier after rain prevented farmers from planting winter crops, the National Farmers Union said.
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U.K. Energy Secretary Ed Davey will make his strongest attack yet on climate change skeptics he accuses of purveying a what he calls a “seductive” and “dangerous” message that global warming has stopped.
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The U.S. and Europe may see colder and wetter conditions for the next 25 to 30 years, curbing yields for grain farmers, said Piers Corbyn, managing director of London-based WeatherAction.
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The U.K.’s Met Office issued a weather warning today, saying while any snowfall will be light, freezing temperatures and gale force winds will make travelling hazardous across much of Britain.
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Wheat stockpiles held by farmers in England and Wales slumped 9.6 percent in the year through the end of February after the harvest declined, the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs said.
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The amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere surpassed a threshold not seen for 3 million years, exceeding 400 parts per million for the first time since researchers began tracking the data.
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The U.K.’s Met Office issued a weather warning today, saying while any snowfall will be light, freezing temperatures and gale force winds will make travelling hazardous across much of Britain.
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The U.K. Met Office lowered its forecast for warming temperatures over the next five years, citing natural variability in the global climate.
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