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• Don’t get caught out by the weather this summer

   singled out as a reason for being caught out by severe weather. With much of the country likely to be changing their habits in light of restrictions on international travel, the Met Office’s WeatherReady initiative aims to help people make the most of the summer weather, while also taking small

• Dr Victoria Chapman

  for an environmental consultancy as a GIS and Business Developer Consultant, delivering a variety of projects for national government, regulatory and corporate clients. Victoria has held several postdoctoral research positions at Birmingham and Oxford University. Projects worked on include assessing snow and light

• Met Office Daily Weather: Remaining changeable this week

  . Cloud and outbreaks of rain will move across England and Wales during the morning, clearing to leave sunny spells and showers later, some of which may be heavy locally. Winds will be light to moderate, but locally fresh to strong around some coasts. Temperatures will be near normal, though it may feel

• The London VAAC process

  on the ground, mounted on an aircraft or satellite-based, and can be used to observe the location and vertical profile of aerosols such as volcanic ash. A lidar measures backscattered light from atmospheric targets e.g. aerosols including volcanic ash and Saharan dust, water droplets and ice crystals, using

• Briefing on Arctic and Antarctic sea ice - August 2023

  extent lower than every year before 2007. Each year, scientific centres around the world submit predictions of September Arctic sea ice extent to the Sea Ice Outlook (SIO), a series of reports published in June, July and August by the Sea Ice Prediction Network (SIPN). The second report of the summer

• Temperature extremes and records most affected by UK’s changing climate

  totals are based on the average value across each county. Lead author and Met Office climate scientist, Mike Kendon, said: “Our new analysis of these observations really shines a light on the fastest changing aspects of our weather as a consequence of climate change. Long term averages can be difficult

• buontempo_2014_ensemble_africa.pdf

  Hadley Centre, FitzRoy Road, Exeter, Devon EX1 3PB, UK e-mail: carlo.buontempo@metoffice.gov.uk of the RCMs are often different than the driving GCMs and arguably more credible given the improved performance of the RCM. This also suggests that local climate forcing will be a significant driver

• buontempo_2014_ensemble_africapdf

  Hadley Centre, FitzRoy Road, Exeter, Devon EX1 3PB, UK e-mail: carlo.buontempo@metoffice.gov.uk of the RCMs are often different than the driving GCMs and arguably more credible given the improved performance of the RCM. This also suggests that local climate forcing will be a significant driver

• Twelve steps to safer driving this winter

  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

• Intensive testbed: Daily updates 2025

  The intensive testbed with its main hub in Zambia and centres in Mozambique and South Africa, hit the ground running on 30 January 2025.

  and nowcasts – sent every two hours. The morning’s forecasts predicted some heavy rainfall for Kanyama. While the team at ZMD experienced two brief but heavy showers during the morning, the Kanyama community observers reported that they experienced only light rain. This led to a discussion about how