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holiday period; the Board commended the forecasting team for the quality and resilience of their work over this period. The associated KPIs remained on track. The Board also discussed the longer-term seasonal forecast and the North American hurricane season. Nick Jobling (Chief Financial Officer

are avoided. Retired names: Any name previously retired as a hurricane name will not be reused. Impartiality: Storms are never named after private companies or brands. Suitability: The frequency of a name’s submission does not influence its selection; suitability is paramount. When are new storm names

. 2) National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS), U.K. 3) ECMWF, Reading, U.K. Climate Extremes in Changing change Heatwaves Hurricanes and floods Air pollution SMOG UK Heatwave An Iraqi man shows a thermometer reading more than fifty degrees Celsius on July 30, 2015 in Source: Baghdad. WMO Irma

in an anticlockwise direction in the northern hemisphere (clockwise in the southern hemisphere). A tropical storm is a tropical cyclone with mean wind speeds of at least 39 mph The terms hurricane and typhoon are region-specific names for strong tropical cyclones with wind speeds of more than 73 mph The North

of at least 39 mph. The terms hurricane and typhoon are region-specific names for strong tropical cyclones with wind speeds of more than 73 mph. The North Atlantic tropical storm season usually runs from June to November. The degree of activity over the whole season varies from year to year

weather forecast: Colder, breezier and showery for many Met Office weekend football forecast Met Office week ahead forecast: Classic Autumnal weather on the way What do meteorologists do at the Met Office? Met Office Deep Dive: Hurricane Melissa and the UK weather outlook How the Met Office brings life

natural variability and climate change. It has already been demonstrated that skillful multi-year predictions of Atlantic hurricane frequency can be produced (Smith et al. 2010). Much more remains to be done to exploit the regional information in decadal forecasts and indeed in climate predictions

knots Track forecast errors were low and skill scores very high for forecasts for Hurricane Helene. The landfall location was very well predicted. Isaac (10L) 26-30 September 968 mb, 90 knots The first forecast for Isaac was a little fast, but later forecasts had very low track forecast errors

for most, with only scattered showers and mist. August ended with unsettled weather as low pressure brought outbreaks of rain, some heavy, to much of the country. The 25th and 26th saw increased rainfall along the west coast of the UK as the remnants of Hurricane Erin arrived. Temperatures returned

system (known as GloSea) is used to forecast the number of tropical storms (including hurricanes) and Accumulated Cyclone Energy (ACE) index for the Atlantic sector in the period July to November 2009. Recent research has shown that the skill of dynamical systems such as GloSea is challenging or even