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of 40cm in some higher-lying Sheffield suburbs. There was also significant transport disruption with road closures and several thousand affected by power outages in Northern Ireland. A similar combination of road closures and local power outages affected parts of North Wales. After a battle between
Meteorologist Wilhelm Bjerknes identified that the area associated with weather fronts was the battle ground between two opposing air masses. As the First World War had just finished, Bjerknes decided to call this area a ‘front’. The idea that the boundary between a warm air mass and advancing cold air mass
of climate change, so are private companies, including utilities providers’ Sharing our vision Met Office consultants are helping government and businesses to reduce activities that contribute to climate change — and plan for change when it happens. The battle against climate change is at the heart
– but it wasn’t without rewards. “In the heat of the battle, we don’t have time to stop and think. But when you reflect, often a year or so later, you find yourself realising ‘you know what, we actually made a real difference’.” 16 | Barometer | Feature Back to contents From awe-inspiring auroras to disrupted
, and Bioclimatology Series B, 29(3), 245–252. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02263246 Papalexiou, S. M., & Koutsoyiannis, D. (2013). Battle of extreme value distributions: A global survey on extreme daily rainfall. Water Resources Research, 49(1), 187–201. https://doi.org/10.1029/2012WR012557 Pritchard, D. M. W., Forsythe
, and even described the working of a modern computer albeit using human beings. It was lost for some months after being sent behind the lines to safety before the Battle of Champagne but eventually turned up under a heap of coal. The book was published in 1921, forty years before the existence
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