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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

supercomputer 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

mitigation' greenhouse gas concentration scenario (RCP2.6). Water run-off Water run-off is the surface and sub-surface water running into rivers. This is the water available for use from precipitation, taking into account losses due to evaporation. The water run-off projections come from Davie et al

A weather front is expected to become slow-moving across Scotland from Friday and bring heavy and persistent rain to many areas through Saturday before easing on Sunday. A yellow warning for rain has been issued for a large part of Scotland which will come into force from midnight on Friday night

The present-day data comes from the period 2000-2013 as a time slice representative of the start of the 21st century. A short description of the different data types is shown below, along with links to sources. In addition to data on human activity, current tropical cyclone regions and major

, which follows Sophie in an exciting day at her job as a field services engineer. As you read, circle any words or phrases you don’t understand – these could relate to job roles that come up, or technical terminology. 2. Use the glossary below to look up those trickier terms. If some of the words

of sunshine across central Scotland to Northern Ireland and for England and Wales. Come mid to late morning that cloud should be breaking up again. Still the possibility it stays a bit grey on some of those North Sea coast and it may take most of the day before the cloud breaks in the southwest

step of the plan and come to a collective decision and plan their time carefully to make sure they complete the full plan in the time available Explain that the main aim of this plan will be to identify some of the impacts associated with a severe weather event, identify areas for improvement