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settlements, including coastal cities such as Luanda and Lobito and port infrastructure, due to rising sea levels, rising temperatures and heat extremes and heavy precipitation events and flooding. Risks to health including increases in communicable water-borne diseases, vector-borne disease risks

. There were also two lecturers from St. Augustine University, Mwanza. Tanzania being a port city with fishing as the main economic activity there was good attendance by someone from the fisheries sector and members of the Tanzania Fisheries Union (TAFU). 2.0 Presentations There were three presentations

*) Greatest Snow Depth at 0900 UTC 28.4°C on 10th at Wellesbourne (Warwickshire, 47mAMSL) 12.3°C on 8th at Lerwick (Shetland, 82mAMSL) and Baltasound No 2 (Shetland, 15mAMSL) 18.9°C on 11th at Thornes Park (West Yorkshire, 35mAMSL) 1.4°C on 6th at Altnaharra No 2 (Sutherland, 81mAMSL) -2.2°C on 31st at Port

struggled to land in the strong winds. The Port of Dover was temporarily closed to all shipping, and the Humber bridge as well as both Severn bridges were closed for the first time in their history. There were widespread reports of severe structural damage on a scale not often seen; roofs were torn

(Greater London, 170mAMSL) 1.2°C on 26th at Loch Glascarnoch (Ross & Cromarty, 269mAMSL) -1.8°C on 22nd at Port Henderson (Ross & Cromarty, 18mAMSL) 110.9mm on 22nd at White Barrow (Devon, 445mAMSL) 16.1hr on 8th at Lerwick (Shetland, 82mAMSL) 69Kt 79mph on 15th at Wight: Needles Old Battery (Isle

Maidstone and St Pancras due to heavy rainfall. There were ferry cancellations and delays; also some roads were closed in Norfolk. Further rain on the 2nd led to a landslip in Port Talbot’s Afan Valley, which closed Cymmer Road, with one or two minor roads closed in the area due to flooding. During

, 103mAMSL) -5.0°C on 17th at Port Henderson (Ross & Cromarty, 18mAMSL) 117.0mm on 19th at Honister Pass (Cumbria, 358mAMSL) 12.9hr on 5th at Brampton No 3 (Cumbria, 117mAMSL) also on 4th at Oxford (Oxfordshire, 63mAMSL) 73Kt 84mph on 27th at Capel Curig No 3 (Gwynedd, 216mAMSL) 89Kt 102mph on 24th

) Met Office Update: IC updated the group on the delivery timeline of the new supercomputer. Members were told that delivery is still on track for a go live date in April 2024. There is still a huge amount of work before that point including software integration and porting the code

with the migration activity and porting activity has commenced. Microsoft has fitted out the data centre • Met Office has access at the right levels within Microsoft considering the value of the contract as is considered a ‘vanguard customer’. • A joint governance regime is in place between the two organisations

, including storms Ciaran and Debi. Although the UK narrowly avoided the strongest winds from storm Ciaran, the storm did still cause significant impacts to southern coastal counties on the 2nd. As many as 150,000 properties lost power for a time on the 2nd. The port of Dover was closed to all traffic