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to form, the ground temperature needs to fall below freezing, and below the dew point temperature. This causes the air to condense as ice crystals, or frost, instead of dew droplets. Frost will typically form on a night with clear skies and light winds. Frost can also form if dew droplets have

. Upcoming forecast Today With cloudless skies overnight across much of England and Wales, temperatures will drop into single figures with some rural spots seeing a light frost. Tuesday Tuesday will start bright and sunny for many, although the rain continues to persist in the north west of Scotland

exactly what weather the first month will bring. However, there is a good signal for high pressure to remain dominant across southern and eastern areas of the UK during the first part of September, allowing for plenty of sunshine and light winds meaning it will feel warm and possibly very warm at times

smartphone Phones may be multi-purpose tools, but in the event of a breakdown on the side of a country road at night, a phone light won’t give you enough visibility, and you might not have enough service to accurately pinpoint your location. Instead, keep a torch and a paper road atlas in your car

fell across Cumbria and parts of Derbyshire in early December. A major incident was declared in Cumbria with a large number of roads closed including the M6 for a time. Several rest centres were opened to accommodate stranded travellers and residents without power. Storms Elin and Fergus brought wet

forecast information to the interests of different customer groups which can include for example, the general public, emergency responders or airlines. To ensure that people and critical operations will not be put at risk by unexpected weather, the Met Office Operations Centre operates round

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on technology driven systems, it is only in The likelihood Whilst severe events leading to total failure of GNSS are rare, relatively common space weather events can still have minor disruptions on navigation systems, which can still be significant to an industry where navigation is at the centre of its

of the low temperatures (with hard frosts lasting for well over a week), rather than the snowfalls, which were generally unexceptional for the time of year, and conditions were mitigated to some extent by some welcome winter sunshine and relatively light winds. The graph below compares UK area-average

likely that this year will see a continuation of the post-2007 sea ice conditions, whereby every year since 2007 (inclusive) has recorded a September extent lower than every year before 2007. Each year, scientific centres around the world submit predictions of September Arctic sea ice extent