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be detected in Earth’s atmosphere as soon as 8.5 minutes after a solar flare (travelling at the speed of light). CMEs are often associated with flares, eruptions of large amounts of matter from the solar atmosphere. These can take days to reach Earth, carrying a local magnetic field from the Sun

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Double rainbows are formed when sunlight is reflected twice within a raindrop with the violet light that reaches the observers eye coming from the higher raindrops and the red light from lower raindrops.

. The second rainbow is fainter and more 'pastel' in tone than the primary rainbow because more light escapes from two reflections compared to one. The secondary rainbow is also dispersed over a wider area of the sky. It is nearly twice as wide as the primary bow. A key feature of double rainbows

The Met Office, in collaboration with the National Oceanography Centre, have produced a new climate monitoring dataset for surface humidity over oceans. The dataset is called HadISDH.marine which stands for the Met Office Hadley Centre Intergrated Surface Dataset of Humidity for the marine

a spectacular light show sometimes seen as far south as Scotland and Northern England/Ireland - if skies are clear. The distance to the aurora belt, compounded by light pollution or twilight, means it can be difficult for the naked eye to see the phenomenon clearly and it is often portrayed much

at night means fair weather is generally headed towards you. A red sky appears when dust and small particles are trapped in the atmosphere by high pressure. This scatters blue light leaving only red light to give the sky its notable appearance. A red sky at sunset means high pressure is moving in from

with some patchy light rain at times.” Mid-week Rain, which could be heavy at times, will move east across the country on Wednesday, turning patchier and more showery on Thursday, with the heaviest showers expected in the south and east.  Easter weekend Looking further ahead, Deputy Chief Meteorologist

parts, and the 2nd saw 12.6 hours of sunshine at several sites including East Malling (Kent) and Tibenham (Norfolk), but the west was cloudier with some light rain and drizzle. Rain across the north-west and far south-west moved into the north-east on the 3rd but died out further south, with warm

showers affected eastern and north-western coasts. A band of rain spread into the north late on the 1st and spread southwards on the 2nd, turning light and drizzly as it moved south, with brighter weather following into the north. Between the 3rd and 5th, a ridge of high pressure brought dry, sunny

involved. o The recent 5 major weather warnings, which had all been assessed as excellent. o The publication of the second stage of the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6), which had a significant contribution from the Hadley Centre. o The relatively limited impact of recent higher levels of COVID19