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• chemicals in cleaning or personal care products • dust • mould Outdoor air quality in the UK has improved significantly during the past 40 years. But there is no safe level of air pollution, and there is still more we could do. Play the game 1. Gather everyone in a circle and ask everyone

and meteorologist, said: "It is slightly mixed fortunes as we start off this new working week. A little misty along eastern coastal areas of Scotland where there is some low cloud around. This will tend to burn back as we do move throughout the day. It's wetter out towards western Scotland and parts of eastern

, driven by human activity. How do we link extreme weather to climate change? An attribution study aims to answer the question, “Did climate change cause this?” Scientists can look at specific weather events and see if climate change was a factor. To do this, they start with a clear, scientific

Otto and Noa which were named by other meteorological organisations in February and April respectively and had residual impacts on the UK. Met Office Head of Situational Awareness Will Lang, who leads responses in times of severe weather, said: “This is the ninth year of us naming storms and we do

and storm clouds to form; winds which do not vary greatly with height - known as low wind shear. This allows the storm clouds to rise vertically to high levels; sufficient distance from the equator to provide spin or twist. Tropical cyclone facts How do hurricanes get their names? Various

, in particular utilising UK Climate Projections 2018 (UKCP18). Additionally, this is an introductory level course that does not include instruction or practical sessions on coding, or the use of coding languages, for access and/or analysis of data. At present, we are not offering training in these areas

Outreach programme. Many of these Education Outreach Ambassadors call the Met Office Exeter headquarters home, but around 100 are based in other areas of the UK and further afield. What our Education Outreach Ambassadors do Our Education Outreach Ambassadors deliver a range of outreach activities

in the list, through a variety of ways: • Tweeting • Met Office Facebook pages • By sending an email to [email protected]. The names were collated and a list compiled to include those proposed by Met Éireann. The Met Office does not hold a list of rejected names. However, to provide advice

What does this research involve?  Our airborne observations research team studies how radiation moves through the atmosphere and how it interacts with the Earth's surface and clouds. To do this, they use special instruments called radiometers that are mounted on a research aircraft known as FAAM

, January 1806. Fig. 15. Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort. The earliest diaries we have date from the early eighteenth century and are mostly UK based, but we do have occasional overseas diaries some of which have recently provided valuable weather data for parts of the world that we would not otherwise