Provisional statistics released by the Met Office show that England has had its joint hottest summer in a series which runs from 1884.

The Environment Agency is urging people living in flood risk communities along the north coast of Cornwall, Devon and Somerset to prepare for flooding from a forecast tidal surge caused by Storm Eunice tomorrow.

The Government has today confirmed that £1.2 billion of funding is being made available to develop a state-of-the-art supercomputer, meaning that predicting severe weather and the impacts of climate change will be faster and more accurate than ever before.

A new report by the Met Office which reveals further details about changes in the UK’s climate since the 1960 shows that heatwaves in the UK are lasting twice as long as they did 50 years ago.

After further assessing the temperature data for the UK as a whole for summer 2018, the Met Office has confirmed that the figures are so close it is declaring it as the joint hottest on record together with the record-breaking summers of 2006, 2003 and 1976.

The Met Office has issued a health alert as the heatwave continues with temperatures set to rise into the mid 30s Celsius this week.

The Met Office and Thames Water have signed a joint agreement to launch a suite of weather intelligence models for the water industry.

A huge catalogue of old weather data, from the ships' logs of historic voyages to World War I Royal Navy records, is being used for an international project to recreate the world's past climate.