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on Easter Saturday at Heathrow, London (1949), Mildenhall, Suffolk (1949) and Wisley, Surrey (2011). If you have plans over the weekend, get the latest on the weather using our forecast pages, Twitter or Facebook, as well as using our new mobile app which is available for iPhone from the App store and for Android from the Google Play store. Search for "Met Office" in store.
, to improve climate adaptation and resilience. The Commonwealth Summit on 19-20 April in London will be an important forum for discussions about responding to the impacts of climate change. In order to build a sustainable future, countries need to mitigate climate change, reduce vulnerability and increase resilience.
report of MOSACs annual November meeting to the Board. • The Board noted the report and expressed thanks for the very helpful work and feedback MOSAC provides. JH re-iterated that it was genuinely appreciated by all involved and should be fed back to MOSAC members. • The Board requested some more detail about the progress and preparation work for the Olympics. • The next meeting was confirmed as London (Feb 28th) • Close of Meeting
, FSA, EA; developed during and since the response to the Fukushima-Daiichi 2011 accident. Volcanic ash modelling to support the Met Office’s role as the London VAAC; used during the eruptions of Eyjafjallajökull in 2010 and Grimsvotn in 2011 and continues to be developed. Development and support
or London in August 2022. Published in the journal Weather and Climate Extremes, the study was led by the Met Office and Newcastle University, with support from the Universidad de Costa Rica, San Jose, Costa Rica and the Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland. Study lead author, Met Office
of Somerset CCC, Simon Lee, about the importance of our weather forecasts for pitch maintenance. Why choose the Met Office? The UK’s official weather service and global forecast centre Meteorological provider to many high-profile sporting events, including the 2012 London Olympics World-leading science 24/7 support, 365 days a year Reliable and flexible forecasting capability Key contributor to understanding climate change
was near average in some western areas, but well above average further east, with over 200% of normal for London and the south-east and also parts of Aberdeenshire and Moray. Sunshine was particularly low for much of England and Wales, with only the south of Northern Ireland and the Isle of Man
being evacuated. Meanwhile a wildfire in Dagenham, east London on the 15th saw further house evacuations with around eight hectares of land scorched, according to local Fire and Rescue service reports. The 12th saw temperatures reaching 33C in Cardiff and on the same day there were reports of the heat
”). For sea level rise, the primary scenario is defined by Network Rail to be the RCP4.5 95 th percentile, because UKCP18 does not contain sea level projections for RCP6.0. Transport for London (2021) uses the same guidelines. A review for ORR (Ferranti et al., 2021) concluded that whilst
, Brown et al. (2014) estimated a 20-year return level of 35.7°C for summer TXx in London, for 1961-90. Such rare daily events can occur either during short spells of hot weather associated with particular synoptic conditions (e.g. during 2018, McCarthy et al., 2019), or during an extended heatwave
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