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The team, which involved scientists from the Met Office Hadley Centre, Imperial College London and the University of Reading, compared wind power availability with electricity demand in winter and they found an interesting result. Hazel Thornton, of the Met Office Hadley Centre, is one

different NIHR HPRU’s Who we are... London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) - Lead Academic Institution (Dr Sari Kovats – Lead) Public Health England (PHE) University Exeter (UoE) UK Met Office University College London (UCL) Public Health and Land Cover in the UK Workshop at the Met

in an hour could be 3.5 times more likely by the 2070s compared with the 1990s. In London 30mm/hr could be 2.5 times more likely. 30mm of rain in one hour is a threshold which is typically used to trigger flash flood warnings. These results suggest a big increase in the frequency of flash flood

this summer, Cirencester in the Cotswolds recorded the largest number of ‘warm weather days’, with 32 days of 25-30 degree heat. This was followed by St James’ Park in London, which enjoyed 30 days of temperatures between 25-30 °C. Shoreham-by-Sea in West Sussex, completed the top three, recording 23 days

at the Met Office headquarters in Exeter and online. The Met Office headquarters are located in Exeter in the southwest of England, approximately 300 km from London. There are rail links to London and airports at Bristol and Exeter. The Met Office has an ambition to achieve net zero CO2 emissions by 2030

The warmest late May Bank Holiday Weekend on record is officially 32.8 °C, recorded on Bank Holiday Monday itself on 29th May 1944 in Horsham (West Sussex), Tunbridge Wells  (Kent) and Regents Park (London) just a few days ahead of D-Day. Martin Young, Deputy Chief Meteorologist at the Met Office

In situ measurements at the L5 Lagrange point - summary Jonathan Eastwood 1 1. Space and Atmospheric Physics Group, Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London Science from an Operational Mission: An L5 Consortium meeting BIS Conference Centre, London, 13 May 2015 In situ measurements at L5

. Career background Roger started his meteorological career by doing a PhD in atmospheric physics at Imperial College London, on the transmission of the atmosphere at millimetre wavelengths. Before joining the Met Office, he worked in a number of different institutes, including the Rutherford Appleton

broadcasts. Warnings of severe weather had been issued, however, to various agencies and emergency authorities, including the London Fire Brigade. Perhaps the most important warning was issued by the Met Office to the Ministry of Defence at 0135 UTC, 16 October. It warned that the anticipated

stations. On 13 September temperatures exceeded 30 °C across much of East Anglia and Kent, with 34.4 °C at Gravesend (Kent), 33.5 °C at Kew Gardens (Greater London) and 32 °C reached at Writtle (Essex), Bedford and Cambridge. The chart below compares hourly air temperatures recorded at two locations