Title: The Meteorology of the Exceptional Winter of 2015/2016 across the UK and Ireland Author(s): Mark McCarthy 1* , Sandra Spillane 2 , Séamus Walsh 2 , Michael Kendon 1 1 Met Office, National Climate Information Centre, Exeter 2 Climatology and Observations Division, Met Eireann, Dublin * Correspondence to: Mark McCarthy, mark.mccarthy@metoffice.gov.uk This article is provided by the author(s) and Met Éireann in accordance with publisher policies. Please cite the published version. NOTICE: This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Citation: McCarthy, Mark, Sandra Spillane, Séamus Walsh, and Michael Kendon. “The Meteorology of the Exceptional Winter of 2015/2016 across the UK and Ireland.” Weather 71, no. 12 (2016): 305–313. doi:10.1002/wea.2823 . This item is made available to you under the Creative Commons Attribution License.