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people not to underestimate the distance waves can travel up the beach or harbour wall. Although it can be tempting to get close, it isn’t worth risking your life to take photos or to dodge waves. "If you plan on going out walking after the storm, be wary. Storms change our landscape through coastal

break, just like on a beach. The breaking waves exert a drag on the Polar Night Jet, which weakens and distorts it. If the waves are strong enough, they may decelerate the jet sufficiently so that the westerlies turn easterly. Such a change in airflow disrupts the stratospheric polar vortex either

Engagement Strategy By 31 st May for CSA 6. AB & LM 7. BEIS & Met Office 8. WL, AS, RB, AB 9. WL Met Office and the EA to follow-up to discuss including water quality information on the beach forecast service. Future papers to include deliverability information reflecting on cost and implications of work

. Decision: For D1.5 the group agree that the deliverable has been met, and that the work should be continued to develop possible solutions for future implementation within the resource constraints. e. D1.6a – Improvements to the display & discoverability of beach safety forecasts (BT) Research

and pneumonia. “Simple precautions such as wrapping up warm when going outside, sleeping with the windows closed at night and having plenty of hot food and drinks throughout the day can help keep these risks at bay. “We’d also urge everyone to keep a friendly eye on older relatives, friends

for the time of year in the satellite record (since 1979), with the lowest having been 11.07 million sq km in 2016 (Figure 1). Extent was well below average across most of the Atlantic Ocean side of the Arctic, as well as in Hudson Bay and Baffin Bay. It was also below average in the Laptev Sea north

but in some years this shifts north to the foothills of the Himalayas. Low-pressure systems from the Bay of Bengal move moist air northwards. When this air is uplifted over the mountains, it enhances the amount of precipitation, focusing the heaviest rainfall in northeast India and Nepal. In August 2014

and the Isle of Wight. Storm Ciarán exacerbated existing flooding problems with many rivers bursting their banks. At West Bay in Dorset, a section of cliff collapsed into the sea. In Surrey, storm Ciarán caused a power outage at three water treatment plants leaving thousands without a water supply

over 25% of GDP. • South Asia’s mangrove forests and seagrass meadows, some of the most extensive and biodiverse in the world, are threatened by rising sea levels, more intense cyclones, and storm surges. The world’s largest mangrove forest (the Sundarbans) located in the Bay of Bengal provides

10,000 locations worldwide (UK and world) and regional text forecasts within the UK as well as more specialist forecasts for leisure activities such as walking in the mountains and beach safety. In addition we provide severe weather warnings to help safeguard life and property. We make our forecasts