Climate guide

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  3. Climate change is a large-scale, long-term shift in the planet’s weather patterns or average temperatures Climate change refers to a large-scale, long-term shift in the planet's weather patterns or average temperatures.

Climate guide

Find out about climate, climate change and climate science in our climate guide

The following pages include information around what climate is and what influences it, how and why our climate is changing and the work we undertake to help the UK prepare for future changes.

If you would like to find out more about the climate services we provide, including Climate Service UK, you can do so on the climate services section of our website. For more in-depth information about climate research go to our research web pages.

The Met Office also hosts the National Climate Information Centre which holds national and regional climate information for the United Kingdom. Digitised records for the whole country date back to 1910 and data for the Central England Temperature record dates back to 1654 - the world's longest instrumental record.

Last updated: 25 March 2014