How climate change will affect temperatures around the UK in 2050

The Met Office has produced the most detailed projections yet of the effects of global warming on the UK during the rest of the century

Boats are left high and dry on the River Thames near Kew during the severe drought of summer 1976

Hundreds of ancient trees were uprooted in Kew Gardens by the Great Storm of 1987, the worst to hit Britain since 1703. The storm was responsible for the deaths of at least 22 people in Britain and France

Water levels were still alarmingly low in the Scammonden Reservoir, West Yorkshire, in autumn 2003 following a drought in the summer

Flash flooding in Boscastle, Cornwall, on 16 August 2004