Following the El Nino event in 2015, the Met Office worked with the UK Government’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) and the University of Reading to design a new service which would provide insights into the upcoming season and enable more lead time for decision making. The service focuses on the upcoming 6 months and provides details of potential differences in weather compared to a ‘typical’ season. It represents the month-, season- and 4-6 month ahead predictions for rainfall and temperature to feed into wider humanitarian planning in a number of countries across the world. It provides an overview of the outputs of all the Global Producing Centres (GPCs) for long-range forecasts across the world.

Learn more: https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/services/government/international-development/climate-outlook.