State of the UK Climate 2022

This report provides a summary of the UK's weather and climate through the calendar year 2022, alongside the historical context for a number of essential climate variables. This is the ninth in a series of annual 'State of the UK Climate' publications and an update to the 2021 report (Kendon et al., 2022). It provides an accessible, authoritative and up-to-date assessment of UK climate trends, variations and extremes based on the most up-to-date observational datasets of climate quality.