Not a good sign if it’s positive hints you’re after.

It's a big change and my first thoughts were very negative. I don't like how you no longer have a landing page with all of your selected locations - you have to navigate to it via the Change link. I always have as many as I can as I love to see weather around the UK and other parts of the world. Also it wiped out all of my saved locations and so had to add them all back in.

I actually don't mind the general look and feel and how you can navigate across to later in the day or other day details. 

Two main points for me:

1. Weather warning list option needs to be more prominent

2. What's happened to the text forecast - both 5 days and beyond?

I guess overall we'll get used to it and hopefully they will take feedback into account. 

23 Jan - 1 Feb Throughout this period, the UK will see a battle between Atlantic weather systems attempting to push in from the west while high pressure and colder, drier conditions attempt to exert some influence from the east. Initially, milder Atlantic air is expected to dominate for most parts, with showers or longer spells of rain. Temperatures are likely to be around or a little above average, except in the far northeast where it is likely to be colder with some sleet or snow. There is then an increased chance that conditions will turn more widely colder and drier. This aspect of the forecast is still somewhat uncertain but the potential transition to colder weather also increases the chance of snow across parts of the country.

Updated: 14:00 (UTC) on Sun 18 Jan 2026

"“Governments need to agree on a planetary solvency plan quickly,” says David King, former top climate adviser to the UK government who contributed to the report. “We are looking at an accelerated rate of temperature rise. We’re not sure if that will continue into the future but we can probably assume it’s not going to relax backwards.”

A first step towards such a plan could be to stop assuming the world economy will keep expanding, says Sandy Trust at the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries in the UK, an author of the new report. According to the Network for Greening the Financial System, global GDP could fall by 25 per cent with 2°C of warming by 2050. This would mean up to $25 trillion in economic losses annually due to climate-related impacts, says Trust. But the network says it doesn’t foresee a recession, since it expects global economic growth to outpace those damages."...

But the biggest reason we could surpass 1.5°C sooner than expected is because emissions have continued to increase each year, says Samantha Burgess at Copernicus. Fossil fuel emissions set yet another record in 2025.

“Emissions haven’t come down as fast as people believed they would,” says Burgess.

Every tenth of a degree of warming will result in more frequent and intense extreme weather. Already, the Los Angeles wildfires in January 2025 – potentially the costliest natural disaster in US history – were twice as likely and 25 times larger due to climate change. Hurricane Melissa, the strongest storm to make landfall around the Atlantic Ocean, was associated with wind speeds at least 16 kilometres per hour faster than would be expected without climate change.

Sooner-than-expected climate impacts could cost the world trillions

A report warns that we may have seriously underestimated the rate of warming, which could damage economic growth

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2511371-sooner-than-expected-climate-impacts-could-cost-the-world-trillions/ 

Stav late yesterday mentioned a snowy soell

in the way, but Look East this morning talked about cooler weather on the way. I think this reflects the model outputs - 0z as opposed to the 12z and 18z yesterday. The fat lady isn’t singing just yet, but she’s warming the vocal cords. Is this GW - probably- it is pretty shite for everyone now and in the future - with disinterested Game of Thrones power brokers in charge of most of the planet, but equally- these downgrades have been common for a decade or two - since the 80s really. 

Some rough times ahead for NE Scotland this week , gales, snowfall pretty certain on the Hills with the worst of it in a band South of the Great Glen, heavy cold rain along the coast. (11 minutes); then the final panels (after 22 mins) with percentages assigned to widely different outcomes.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cedwp8w1j24o 

(just seen that she's from Morar! we stayed there a couple of years back; a stunningly beautiful place, but very small)

It's not a surprise to me, as I said a week ago that I expected flooding to be in the news! 

This is one of the things the media's good at - they love pictures of flooded-out cars, rivers flooding their banks etc, they're always popular.

She must have seen the latest model runs and thought enough is enough. 😁

Only kidding, wishing her all the best with early retirement, although she looks great for coming up mid-sixties.

Update on Storm Chandra:

"Poor weather could impact journeys across England, Scotland and Wales until Friday, National Rail warned, as road closures and rail, ferry, and flight cancellations cause widespread travel disruptions. As of Wednesday morning, there were 99 flood warnings, where flooding was expected, and 260 flood alerts, where it was possible, across England."

Storm Chandra brings heavy rain, flooding and travel disruption to UK

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy8p2yey0gdo 

The Met Office has launched its most significant scientific upgrade in more than three years, a major step forward for the UK’s weather and climate science capability.

The new science delivers clearer, more accurate and more intuitive forecasts, bringing them closer than ever to real-world weather.

The upgrade marks a major step forward in the UK’s weather and climate science capability delivering tangible improvements that will make forecasts easier to interpret. Forecasts will now more accurately show rain and snow in a way that more closely reflects real-world‑ conditions.

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/news-and-media/media-centre/weather-and-climate-news/2026/major-upgrade-to-met-officce-forecasting-system 

The upgrade went live in late January. On TWO the UKV, UK Met Global and MOGREPS-G feeds automatically switched to it, and that will be the same for other websites / apps.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c14mlrd460vo 

I saw the story but not the sun here in the city (and the official stats don’t seem to show any sunshine either). It should be different over the next couple of days, thankfully.

Officially the breakdown will occur tonight to see clear skies and sunny weather and to see first 20.0 in my conservatory as never exceed 19.9 this year while 23.3 highest and in Jan 2025 and 27.6 on 7th Feb so hoping tomorrow to see low 20s and much reduced heating costs. Colder Northerly set up used less heating than less cold to mild overcast days. 

😂

Allied to that their 'most likely' LP track charts are pretty much the kiss of death - the 7 day forecast had that as precip along the southern coastal counties, less likely option being across the Midlands and Northern England. Next set of model runs corrected it north. 

This isn't a MetO bash btw, aside from their deeply irritating 'heavy spells of rain' thing (is it the spells that are heavy or the rain???), I prefer their forecasts to the Beeb but this winter does seem to have been one of LPs deepening a touch more than expected and tracking further north as a result. Insignificant globally, somewhat more relevant for little old Blighty. 

"Outlook for Wednesday to Friday:

Early fog clearing, then dry and very mild with warm sunny spells Wednesday."

Snow maps reveal UK cities buried in wintry weather blast bringing 11 inches

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/snow-maps-reveal-uk-cities-36761697 

Forecast is for Mon 8th - but given that WX charts (on which this is based) seem to regard their purpose in life as providing clickbait for tabloids ...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czj18j09wvro 

Major UK tourist attractions including Chester and Edinburgh Zoo are calling for changes to the way weather forecasts are displayed on mobile phone apps - warning that "misleading" rain icons cost venues up to £137,000 a day.

The radio report on this suggested that the Great British Public are either too thick or too lazy to look at more than one icon for the day.