text: **OBSERVATIONS**
  **Annual report: State of the UK Climate. Downloadable data.**
  The “State of the UK Climate” report for 2017 will be included as part of the UKCP18 package, 
  bringing the observed data right up to date. This annual update8 covers trends, the multi- 
  decade climate record and significant weather events such as the early July 2015 hot spell 
  and the exceptionally mild and wet December of the same year. 
  
  Quality controlled UK observational datasets from the Met Office observing network, provided 
  at spatial resolutions to match the land projections and for pre-defined administrative regions 
  and river basins, will be available under an Open Government Licence9. For variables such as 
  temperature and precipitation these data sets will span the late 19th Century to the present 
  day and will be provided for daily, monthly, seasonal, annual and long term averages. 