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Navigating My First Weeks at the Met Office and Championing Climate Science
In this blog, Professor Rowan Sutton writes about his first month here at the Met Office as he takes up the role of Director of the Met Office Hadley Centre.
Collaborating for energy network resilience
The UK Government’s plans to transition to clean energy are crucial to achieving Net Zero targets and are built on a foundation of renewable generation. Just as delivering clean energy is far more complex and wide reaching than just wind and solar capability, so too, is the Met Office’s role in supporting the energy sector.
The unbelievable May that had everyone talking
“I’m not sure anyone believes you, it was a very cold month”, “My heating was on all month”. Just two examples of the replies to our statistics release that May 2024 was the warmest on record for UK mean temperature in a series dating back to 1884. In a month that was wet and dull for many, people certainly didn’t feel that May was a record breaking month. But what could cause such a disconnect between perception and statistical reality?
A cool career studying the impacts of a warming planet
Professor Peter Stott MBE writes about his recent interview on the BBC programme 'The Life Scientific' and reflects on his career.
Ten years of forecasting beyond the skies
The Met Office Space Weather Operations Centre (MOSWOC) celebrates ten years of operations this week, looking back on a decade of forecasting potential impacts from the Sun.
On the path to delivering next generation UK weather forecasts
Reporting on progress of the Met Office and Alan Turing Institute AI for Numerical Weather Prediction project.
Looking back on a storm-laden season
With publication of the latest storm names for use for 2024/25 due later this week, we look back at the storms of 2023/24 in what was a wet and windy autumn and winter for many in the UK.
When sounding the alarm feels too alarming
As part of our August climate theme of climate anxiety, Emma Lawrance, Neil Jennings and Jessica Newberry Le Vay from Imperial College London have written this guest post on concerns around the psychological impact of working in climate science fields and on others in society alarmed by climate change.
Nasa Space Apps Challenge returns to Exeter
The Met Office will play its part in the world’s largest hackathon when it hosts NASA’s International Space Apps Challenge once again. Up to 150 participants will gather for the two-day event at the Met Office headquarters in Exeter on 5-6 October to take on challenges set by NASA on the theme of ‘the Sun touches everything’.
20 years on from Boscastle – how would things be different?
It’s now 20 years since a devastating flood swept through the small Cornish village of Boscastle. A month’s worth of rain fell in just two hours, causing two rivers to burst their banks and about two billion litres of water to rush straight into the village. Whilst rainfall was in the forecast that day, the intensity of that rainfall and its impact on the village was not predicted, meaning residents had little time to react.
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