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warfare Following the first use of chlorine gas the Army’s General Headquarters in the Field in France also requested forecasts of probable changes in surface wind direction and force. German forces had deployed Chlorine Gas for the first time on 22 April 1915 at the opening of the Second Battle
A battle for supremacy continues over the UK, with cold air to the north and east and milder, wet conditions to the south and west
A battle for supremacy continues over the UK, with cold air to the north and east and milder, wet conditions to the south and west.
A battle for supremacy is taking place over the UK, with cold air to the north and east and milder wet conditions to the south and west.
Ocean to our west, the Arctic to the north and continental land masses to the east and south. The consequence of this is that our climate is highly variable as the battle of competing air masses plays out over our heads at the whims of the meandering atmospheric jet stream and slowly evolving oceanic
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
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