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be detected in Earth’s atmosphere as soon as 8.5 minutes after a solar flare (travelling at the speed of light). CMEs are often associated with flares, eruptions of large amounts of matter from the solar atmosphere. These can take days to reach Earth, carrying a local magnetic field from the Sun

The Met Office, in collaboration with the National Oceanography Centre, have produced a new climate monitoring dataset for surface humidity over oceans. The dataset is called HadISDH.marine which stands for the Met Office Hadley Centre Intergrated Surface Dataset of Humidity for the marine

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parts, and the 2nd saw 12.6 hours of sunshine at several sites including East Malling (Kent) and Tibenham (Norfolk), but the west was cloudier with some light rain and drizzle. Rain across the north-west and far south-west moved into the north-east on the 3rd but died out further south, with warm

showers affected eastern and north-western coasts. A band of rain spread into the north late on the 1st and spread southwards on the 2nd, turning light and drizzly as it moved south, with brighter weather following into the north. Between the 3rd and 5th, a ridge of high pressure brought dry, sunny

those showers mostly dying out with some light rain and drizzle affecting Northeastern Scotland whilst patchy rain could also develop across Western areas of the UK. Low cloud is also likely to spread inland from the North Sea into Eastern and some Central areas. Elsewhere there will be clear spells

, and Almondsbury (Avon), Exeter Airport (Devon) and Shoeburyness (Essex) recorded 8.6 hours of sunshine on the 4th. There was fog and frost overnight in central and southern parts of the country, and generally variable amounts of cloud on the 5th and 6th, but it was cloudier with a little light rain

with some patchy light rain at times.” Mid-week Rain, which could be heavy at times, will move east across the country on Wednesday, turning patchier and more showery on Thursday, with the heaviest showers expected in the south and east.  Easter weekend Looking further ahead, Deputy Chief Meteorologist