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Looking back on a storm-laden season
With publication of the latest storm names for use for 2024/25 due later this week, we look back at the storms of 2023/24 in what was a wet and windy autumn and winter for many in the UK.
When sounding the alarm feels too alarming
As part of our August climate theme of climate anxiety, Emma Lawrance, Neil Jennings and Jessica Newberry Le Vay from Imperial College London have written this guest post on concerns around the psychological impact of working in climate science fields and on others in society alarmed by climate change.
Nasa Space Apps Challenge returns to Exeter
The Met Office will play its part in the world’s largest hackathon when it hosts NASA’s International Space Apps Challenge once again. Up to 150 participants will gather for the two-day event at the Met Office headquarters in Exeter on 5-6 October to take on challenges set by NASA on the theme of ‘the Sun touches everything’.
20 years on from Boscastle – how would things be different?
It’s now 20 years since a devastating flood swept through the small Cornish village of Boscastle. A month’s worth of rain fell in just two hours, causing two rivers to burst their banks and about two billion litres of water to rush straight into the village. Whilst rainfall was in the forecast that day, the intensity of that rainfall and its impact on the village was not predicted, meaning residents had little time to react.
Assembling our capability for ensemble weather forecasting
The real world is neither black, nor white. It is made from shades of grey. The weather forecast can contain many possibilities, but forecasters usually try to distil it down to the most likely outcome. Why should a weather forecast try to determine a single ‘black’ or ‘white’ outcome, rather than present a more well-rounded picture of all of the shades of the weather that could possibly come?
‘Significant’ impacts from Tropical Storm Debby in United States – will it influence UK weather?
Tropical Storm Debby – which made landfall in northern Florida on Monday as a hurricane – will continue to impact eastern and southeastern parts of the United States in the coming days.
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