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. This improved understanding enables Anglian Water to enhance their resilience to future drought events.    Dr Joe Osborne is an Industry Consultancy Manager at the Met Office. He said: “As part of this work, the Met Office Industry Consultancy team has developed a statistical model to enhance Anglian

Climate Information Centre at the Met Office. He said: “Although there’s still around a week left of February, it has been a notably dry month so far, especially in the south of England.  “In short, high pressure has been dominant over the UK, helping to repel rain-bearing systems across much

– a key partner in the delivery of the heat health aspect of MOAP research. He said: “The impacts of higher temperatures on health are numerous and often feedback on each other in negative ways. They range from immediate impacts, such as direct temperature stress on humans, animals, and ecosystems

was severely injured in a stagecoach accident. It ended his seagoing career, and he was then put to work as Superintendent of the US Navy Depot of Charts and Instruments at the US Naval Observatory. He realised that he now had at his disposal thousands of observations about wind, weather and currents

Saulter has a longstanding connection to the sea. He remembers his love of surfing beginning at 14. But he’ll also never forget how the Penlee Lifeboat disaster rocked his local community. Following his first degree at the inland University of Bath, he was drawn back to the ocean, studying oceanography

of string. Step 2: Tape the other end of the string to the marked point on the anemometer sheet. Step 3: Work in pairs or individually to hold up the anemometers OR stick them onto a wall and blow on the object from one side in order to raise the string. Use the chart to see how fast the air is moving

, Mickleham (Surrey) 62.2 mm (rain fell from 1145Z to 1300Z) South Farnborough (Hampshire) 60.2 mm (rain fell from 1215Z to 1330Z) Upper Basildon (Berkshire) Pirbright Institute (Surrey) Merrist Wood Agricultural College (Surrey) Royal Horticultural Society Gardens, Wisley (Surrey) Frimley Pumping Station

-1.5 Sep 13.9 1.3 14.9 1.2 14.1 1.2 12.5 1.6 13.3 0.9 15.1 1.1 Oct 11.1 1.6 12.3 1.9 11.5 1.7 9.1 1.2 10.3 0.9 12.5 1.8 Nov 7.6 1.4 8.3 1.5 7.8 1.0 6.4 1.4 7.2 0.8 8.6 1.5 Dec 4.4 0.5 5.1 0.7 5.2 0.7 3.1 0.3 4.5 0.1 5.2 0.6 Win 5.2 1.5 5.8 1.6 5.7 1.5 4.2 1.4 5.1 0.7 6.1 1.6 Spr 9.0 1.3 9.8 1.3 9.1 1.1

, a multinational or an allotment gardener, forecast accuracy is pivotal for building trust with all who take decisions based on our weather and climate information. So it’s satisfying to see that our record in 2016/17 continued an upward year-onyear, reaching 91.4% accuracy for our next day temperature

, UK data produced by the National Climate Information Centre at the Met Office, chart the new records now broken almost on an annual basis. We recorded the all-time highest UK temperature of 38.7°C recorded during last July’s heatwave at Cambridge Botanic Gardens. By using a technique called