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sunlight. Thu Thursday thunder Thunder storm Clouds emit flashes of lightning and rumbles of thunder. Thunderstorms often bring sharp downpours of rain and high winds that can flatten crops. Tue Tuesday v he rain Very heavy rain More than 50 mm of rain in 24 hours. Flash floods and gully erosion

to the challenges and opportunities this presents becomes ever more critical. The purpose of the Met Office – to work at the forefront of weather and climate science for society’s protection, prosperity and well-being – is now more sharply in focus than ever before. We are a major national asset

be predicted successfully by employing environmental and epidemiological factors. Since March 2015, Yemen, a coastal Middle Eastern country, has suffered violent surges of civil unrest (Sharp & Salaam-Blyther, 2017), and in October 2016, the country reported an outbreak of a few cholera cases. By the end

, as household food security is tightly linked to rain and temperature-dependent production systems (Gebre & Rahut, 2021). Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, nearly a third of the population of East Africa suffered from undernourishment (FAO, 2019). Accentuated by climate change, East Africa suffers from sharp

search algorithm to fill in SST data from the nearest available sea points, which led to unrealistically sharp SST gradients. To remedy this, we applied inversedistance-weighted (IDW) interpolation (with power parameter, p=2) to smoothly fill in the missing SSTs for each region before the ancillary

to 5cm of lying snow recorded across parts of Oxfordshire, Hampshire and Berkshire. Wintry conditions continued through March across Scotland's mountains with extensive snow cover and blizzards at times at higher elevations, and a northerly incursion in late April brought some sharp frosts and further