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day on record could have more than filled Loch Ness Author: Press Office 16 October 2020 Saturday 3 October 2020 is now the wettest day on record since 1891 for UK-wide rainfall. It received the greatest rainfall in any single day averaged out across the UK, beating the previous record on the 25

the sciences there was an increasing desire for standardisation and meteorology was no exception. Between 1803 and 1806, two men, neither of them meteorologists by trade, would produce works that have left an indelible imprint on the world of meteorology to this day. They were Luke Howard and Francis

want to see, for a cleaner air future! Young people with health conditions • Ask parents/carers not to burn things indoors e.g. candles and log burners. • Ask people not to smoke in your home, or near you. • Open windows to let the fresh air in – especially when your family is cooking or cleaning

long-term average, making it the second warmest July in a series from 1910. The positive temperature anomaly was generally much larger by day than by night, with maximum temperatures over 4 °C above average in some areas. Rainfall was 57% of average, and north Norfolk was particularly dry. Sunshine

progressively cooler and more unsettled, and the month ended unseasonably cool and wet in East Anglia and the south-east. The mean temperature for April was provisionally 1.4 °C above the 1981-2010 long-term average, but the positive anomaly was much greater by night than by day. Most of England had

is a highlight of the astronomical calendar. The shower has been active since 17 July, peaked in the early hours of 13 August and will continue until 24 August. The Perseids occur as Earth passes through the trail of debris left by the comet Swift-Tuttle. As these fragments enter the atmosphere, they burn

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it at your school (e.g. via school councils) and in your community. Call on government, businesses and other decision makers to help make the changes you want to see, for a cleaner air future! Young people with health conditions • Ask parents/carers not to burn things indoors e.g. candles and log burners

fuel burn resulting in increased CO2 emissions and costs. The Met Office has worked with partners across Europe on three SESAR Deployment projects which provide aviation stakeholders with new tools to make dynamic decisions based on the prevailing weather conditions for all stages of a flight

northern UK thereafter. Scotland, especially the west, was often warm by day, whereas further south warm days were much fewer. Many areas were drier than usual for the month, with less than half the average total rainfall in some places, and the wettest areas were south-east England, eastern Scotland