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Grass pollen is the worst culprit when it comes to hay fever, with up to 20 million Brits are affected by it. Yet half of sufferers have no idea what type of pollen is causing their hay fever. The Met Office is engaged in joint research to help identify different grass pollen types cause most

for several years, it still felt like a momentous occasion.   A group of about two dozen computer operators, administrators and a couple of photographers gathered in a vast hall.    With a tap on a keyboard, the processing of over 50 billion weather observations – gathered daily for forecasting – came

in Yumbe district, said she lost all her crops in the previous season. She further described the previous situation “Before I used to plant my crops basing on the anticipation that the rains will come on soon and then pray to God such that the seasons move the way I anticipated”. She added

to be here. The Met Office is a bigger organisation than KNMI but the two organisations are similar because of the pull-through of science to operations. That is different from academia and universities generally, and it is great to manage a team with that one goal. So why did you choose to come to the Met

is set to be quite changeable, too. And there will be some pretty persistently heavy rain in places, particularly across Northern Ireland first thing this morning. “So, we have a warning for rain in place for much of the day to come. Some flooding on the roads is possible here. And it won't just

A Yellow Warning for rain has been issued for southwest Scotland, with persistent rain likely to impact travel conditions and will lead to a chance of flooding for some. The warning comes into force from the early hours of Tuesday morning and lasts until 1900 BST. ⚠️Yellow weather warning issued⚠️

of atmospheric concentrations at a doubling of CO 2 . The ECS tends to be greater than the TCR because the planet’s surface temperature continues to rise as the Earth seeks to come into equilibrium with the radiative forcing, even after greenhouse gas concentrations have stabilised. This delay

factor when it comes to how heavy a rainfall is. As we all probably remember from school, when water on the Earth is heated by the Sun, it evaporates and turns into water vapour which rises into the air. When the air cools it condenses around some dust or other particles in the air, these are called

that the faster we reduce our emissions of greenhouse gasses, the more we can avoid the most severe impacts of climate change.” The new analysis comes as leaders and policy makers from across the world come together for negotiations at COP26 in Glasgow. All Met Office events at the COP26 Science Pavilion will be streamed through our Science and Services YouTube channel. You can subscribe and sign up for notifications from the channel so you don’t miss a thing. 

. “So, looking at the details, some low cloud initially this morning, but for much of England and Wales this largely moves back towards coastal stretches. Across Northern England, Northern Ireland and Scotland a cloudier day to come with some outbreaks of rain moving across Northern Ireland, western