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Department (KMD). Realising that a much more localised weather service was badly needed, the KMD partnered with the Met Office and the WISER programme to set up decentralised forecasts and deliver the weather and climate information that local Kenyans would both trust and put to use. “We weren’t

, work out who is going to be affected and where we need to be.  It's harder when it's unpredictable. Storm Arwen was a case in point, because that red weather warning was over Northumberland, but we ended up being really badly hit in Cumbria. There was an unusual funnelling effect down the valleys

fallen trees and structural damage to buildings in the West Midlands. In Llanberis (Gwynedd), around 100 homes were affected by flash flooding, with further flooding reported in Ulverston (Cumbria) and parts of Galashiels (Borders) and Dumfries. Devon and Cornwall were again badly affected on 24-25

, with Appleby badly affected from the River Eden. A British Airways flight was reported to have made the fastest subsonic New York to London journey, making use of powerful jet stream winds exceeding 250 mph. Weather data The analysis chart at 18 UTC 8 February 2020 shows frontal systems bringing heavy

of Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire were also badly affected by flooding from both river and surface water sources. 35 properties were evacuated in Mansfield after a mudslide and floodwaters threatened Derby city centre. Matlock-Derby-Nottingham rail services were cancelled. There were also impacts

that successfully managed to reach people who don’t normally use digital. How did they do it? Find some examples of weather reports for hazardous weather. Can you find one that is done really well and one that is done badly? What was good or bad about them? How could they have been improved

research from the Met Office has revealed that two-fifths of hay fever sufferers (41%) suffer so badly that it ruins their whole summer. Surprisingly though, more than half (57%) of hay fever sufferers admit they don’t know what type of pollen affects them, meaning they are not armed with the know-how

and Hampshire were particularly badly affected, but there was also disruption in parts of northern and eastern England. Runways were closed at Heathrow, all London buses were stopped and vehicles were abandoned in the Yorkshire Wolds. A selection of depths at at 0900 GMT on 2 February is shown

differences. While parts of East Anglia may be close to average, areas such as East Wales, southwest England and Yorkshire could see temperatures 8–9°C above normal. Scotland is also warming up, with the peak expected on Sunday, particularly around the Moray Firth. Thanks to the Foehn effect, where air

). The Newcastle-on-Tyne area was particularly badly affected by flash flooding; rainfall rates of 20 to over 30 mm per hour were widely recorded. The following map shows lightning strikes for 28 June 2012 The wet weather continued to predominate for the first two-thirds of July. Many parts of England