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. Career background Richard originally trained as a chemist, studying at the University of Birmingham. His PhD in computational chemistry focused on the optical properties of water microdroplets and molecular arrangements in water nanoclusters. Following this, he spent about 5 years at the National

of Scotland, the whole of Northern Ireland, and parts of northern England, north Wales and the north Midlands. Dan Suri is a Chief Meteorologist at the Met Office and said: “An area of low pressure slides its way eastwards on Monday night. The associated frontal system, marking the boundary between

Anglia and the south-east first thing on the 4th, locally heavy, cleared late morning, then it was brighter but with showers for the south-west, and a band of rain moved south over northern counties, reaching the north Midlands by evening. Rain and showers persisted all day on the 5th over central

elsewhere, and a spell of rain moving slowly and erratically east through the day with brighter skies then following from the west. The 3rd saw variable amounts of cloud, with showers affecting the north and the Midlands but becoming more restricted in extent later in the day. The south-eastern half began

the UK, with more than 200% of average across the west of Northern Ireland, Lancashire, Merseyside and the Manchester area and parts of Devon, Dorset and Wiltshire. The UK overall rainfall total was 170% of average overall, making this provisionally the wettest July since 2009 and sixth wettest July

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of Birmingham and Bristol share the use of ‘tipping it down’, with 44% and 41% saying this respectively. Amusingly, a fifth (18%) of people in Southampton claim to break into song when it rains heavily, performing renditions of ‘it’s raining, pouring, the old man is snoring’.   Top 10 most popular terms

moved northwards and became slowmoving from East Anglia through the Midlands to north Wales. This band gave some very heavy downpours with hail and thunder. On Good Friday (10th) the band rotated slowly anticlockwise spreading to Lincolnshire and the west country and continued to rotate, with sleet

in the day, reaching the Midlands and south-west by dusk. 8th to 13th Winds veered north-westerly on the 8th, with rain moving south-eastwards through the Midlands and south during the morning followed by a mainly cloudy picture with isolated showers. It was warm in the south-east with Writtle (Essex

exceeded 30 °C in the south and locally 35 °C in the south-east. The weather turned more unsettled mid-month with showers and longer spells of rain. From the 19th to 28th the weather was often wet and windy with depressions heading in from the west, and Storms Ellen and Francis brought especially wet