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The London VAAC is an International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) designated centre, responsible for issuing advisories for volcanic eruptions originating in Iceland and the north-eastern corner of the North Atlantic.

The London VAAC is one of 9 Volcanic Ash Advisory Centres worldwide, and has specialist forecasters who produce volcanic ash advisories and guidance products using a combination of volcano data; satellite-based, ground-based and aircraft observations; weather forecast models and dispersion models

problems. Parts of eastern England were also affected by this storm. Impacts North-east Scotland was worst affected by flooding, particularly the Inverness to Moray area and Kingussie to Aviemore but also around Ullapool. Rail travel was affected, there was flooding and damage to roads and 200 homes were

to clearer skies. Tonight could be one of the coldest nights of the winter so far, but only in northwest Scotland, where under clear skies the temperature could reach as low as minus 10°C. The current lowest temperature of the 2016/17 winter is -11°C which was recorded at Cromdale in Moray, North

Introducing Professor Albert Klein-Tank, the new Head of the Met Office Hadley Centre.

Office? It is a great opportunity and, in many ways, it is a dream come true. I have admired the Met Office Hadley Centre for a long time. It is world-renowned, and it is world-class. I have used Met Office observations data since the early days of my climate research career. Also I have

and international level. These involve aircraft/engine manufacturers and operators, regulators, other meteorological agencies and VAACs, government officials and research centres/academia. Groups include the ICAO led IAVWOPSG, the CAA led VAAG, and the DfT led VAORG and the IUGG/WMO led VASAG. VASAG

17 October shows Ophelia approaching and tracking across Ireland and Scotland. A visible satellite image of Ophelia at 1153 UTC 16 October 2017. Image copyright Met Office. Rain-radar image of Ophelia at 1200 UTC 16 October 2017. The centre of the storm is over south-west Ireland, corresponding

and southern England on the 23rd, and across the south and east on the 24th, but the 25th was by far the hottest day with 30 °C recorded widely as far west as Somerset and East Wales, also much of northern England, Edinburgh, and parts of the Highlands and Moray. The further panel of maps below shows

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, Perthshire and the Moray coast. Wave hights of 11m were recorded in the outer Firth of Forth. Warnings still in force A number of severe weather warnings are still in force across the UK. The Red and Amber weather warnings have now expired though the Yellow wind warning covering much of the UK

A UK climate-crop modelling capability for impact assessments on food security: plans and progress Pete Falloon 1 , Andy Challinor 2 , Marcelo Galdos 2 , Mike Rivington 3 , Robin Matthews 3 , Mikhail Semenov 4 , Brendan Freeman 5 , Ed Pope 1 1 Met Office Hadley Centre, Fitzroy Road, Exeter, UK; 2