Recent weather coverage has featured dramatic claims about a “super El Niño”, polar vortex, widespread snow, freezing temperatures and an enormous wall of rain.

Scientists say the growing El Niño weather pattern is an "unprecedented event" and means 2027 is likely to be the world's hottest year on record.

The UK has provisionally set a new maximum temperature record for June for the second consecutive day, with 36.7°C reached at Merryfield, Somerset, on 25 June.

On the 50th anniversary of the start of the 1976 summer heatwave, Met Office scientists have highlighted how similar events could become significantly more intense in the future, with a plausible scen...