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Monthly Archives: August 2015
So what happened to our summer?
Our Chief Scientist Professor Dame Julia Slingo OBE FRS reflects on this summer’s weather and what has influenced it: No-one can deny that we have had a pretty disappointing summer with a lot of unsettled weather and only a few … Continue reading
Posted in Met Office News
Tagged climate, climate change, climate science, cold, dry, England, global warming, heatwave, heavy rain, Jet stream, Met Office, Met Office Hadley Centre, rain, rainfall, record, severe weather, Storm, storms, summer, temperature, UK, weather, weather forecast, weather forecasting, wet, wind
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A look back at this week’s news
The Met Office has been in the news again this week, with our contracts for broadcast weather services generating a huge amount of column inches and public reaction. It’s certainly been heartening to see and hear the level of public … Continue reading
Posted in Met Office in the Media, Met Office News
Tagged Android, apps, BBC, broadcasting, Facebook, iPhone, Met Office, Social media, tv, Twitter, weather forecast
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First hurricane for Florida since Wilma ten years ago
Tropical Storm Erika was around 390 nautical miles east of Antigua on Wednesday morning and is moving west at around 18mph. The storm is expected to track close to Puerto Rico and the Lesser Antilles on Thursday and then towards … Continue reading
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Tagged flooding, heavy rain, hurricane, tropical storm, tropical storm Erika, wet, wind, winds
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Highest temperatures and rainfall over the weekend
Over the past 24 hours the weather has delivered a mixture of hot sunshine, thunderstorms, hail and heavy rain as we highlighted earlier in the week. As expected, sunny skies and warm air being pushed northwards from the continent allowed … Continue reading
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Tagged Environment Agency, flood, flooding, hail, heavy rain, Lightning, Met Office, National Severe Weather Warning Service, Natural Resources Wales, rain, SEPA, severe weather, sunshine, temperature, thunder, weather, weather forecast, wet
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Typhoon heads for Japanese volcano
Typhoon Goni, which was located just east of Taiwan on Sunday morning, is expected to track across the western side of Kyushu Island in SW Japan through Monday. There is a risk it could bring up to 200mm of rainfall in … Continue reading
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Tagged hurricane, Japan, Japan Meteorological Agency, Japanese typhoon, Japanese weather, Philippines, rainfall, tropical, Typhoon, volcano
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Met Office in the news – BBC weather contract
You may have seen reports in the media today that the Met Office won’t be the BBCs main weather provider when the current contract ends. Obviously everyone at the Met Office is disappointed that we won’t be supplying weather presenters … Continue reading
Rain or shine this weekend?
You may have heard that this weekend could be cloudy and wet…or sunny and dry, that’s because as with other weekends this summer there has been some uncertainty in the forecast. After a mixed week of some sunshine, rain and … Continue reading
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Tagged Environment Agency, flooding, forecast, heavy rain, hot, humid, Met Office, National Severe Weather Warning Service, NRW, rain, SEPA, summer, temperature, thunderstorms, UK, weather
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Summer downpours on the way
The weather forecast for later this week is presenting a challenge for our meteorologists. All the ingredients are present to produce significant rainfall on Thursday and Friday, but complex interactions in the atmosphere make it difficult to say with certainty … Continue reading
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Tagged flooding, hail, heavy rain, humidity, Lightning, Met Office, National Severe Weather Warning Service, rainfall, Storm, summer, summer downpours, thunderstorms, wet
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Win the chance to be a weather presenter for the day!
Are you interested in why rain has fallen, where the sun is shining or how strong wind gusts are – and what this means? If so, the Met Office’s WOW – Weather Observation Website – enables you to be part … Continue reading
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Tagged First News, forecast, Met Office, weather, weather forecasting, Weather Observations, weather presenting
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Met Office in the Media – 7 August 2015
An article published today makes a number of claims about Met Office weather and climate science. It would be difficult to cover all the points raised in this blog, but here we look at the science and facts behind a … Continue reading
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