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and risk management. Before joining the Met Office, Julia worked as a post-doc at the Centro de Astrobiología (INTA-CSIC) in Madrid.  She obtained her PhD on the study of low mass star formation from University College London, after receiving a first class degree in Natural Sciences (specialising in astrophysics) from the University of Cambridge.

of the urban boundary layer in central London, and comparing those observations with output from the Unified Model, with the aim of assessing the ability of the model to simulate urban meteorology. Siân joined the Met Office and has been working at Cardington since 2013.

Tuesday 2 June 1953 (Coronation Day of Queen Elizabeth II) UK weather chart for 12:00 UTC on 2 June 1953 Brief summary of the weather for London A mostly cloudy day with rain or showers. A gentle to moderate north-westerly breeze. Maximum temperature well below average for early June. Data from Kew

six days ahead and red warnings closer to the event. Pre-emptive actions were reported on the rail network, including the closure of the East Coast Main Line between London and York on the 19th. Impacts to travel, particularly rail services, began to be reported more widely with speed restrictions

in multidisciplinary health protection research in the UK, and is led by Dr Sari Kovats at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and includes partners at Public Health England, University of Exeter, UK Met Office, and University College London. Presentations from the workshop are available via

, and it was a sunny month in the northern half of Scotland but generally dull elsewhere, especially in the south-west. The UK monthly extremes were as follows: A maximum temperature of 29.1 °C was recorded at London St James’s Park on the 19th. A minimum temperature of -8.8 °C was recorded

reaching as high as 24C in parts of London, and the same applies to the south east on Bank Holiday Friday and Saturday. As the weekend continues there is an increasing risk of showers, some of which could be heavy or thundery. By the start of next week, it will be drier and sunnier but it will feel

in Applied Mathematics from the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, where her thesis focused on modelling the solar dynamo; the mechanism for generation of magnetic fields on the sun. Prior to this Katy obtained a first class BSc (Hons) degree in Mathematics from Royal Holloway, University of London.

as scientific systems manager.  Prior to that, he was the scientific software engineer in the UM Collaboration team.  Before joining the Met Office in 2013, he worked as a senior technical consultant at the Numerical Algorithms Group, and as a software developer for BP Research.    He holds a B.Sc. Hons (1st Class) in Chemistry from Imperial College London (1980), and a D.Phil. in Theoretical Chemistry from the University of Oxford (1984).

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