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% or more of the monthly average rainfall. Impacts The heavy rain, falling on already very wet ground, led to flooding disruption across Wales, Shropshire, Staffordshire and Manchester. A number of roads were blocked by flooding – including the A555 Manchester Airpoort relief road. Rail services were

. There was heavy snow across parts of Highland Scotland and a mini-tornado in Greater Manchester. This storm contributed to the generally prolonged, very wet and unsettled spell of weather lasting through much of December. Weather impacts Storm Gerrit caused severe travel disruption to the rail

micro-climates. Sustainable cities The Sustainable Cities: Options for Responding to Climate Change Impacts and Outcomes (SCORCHIO) project, led by the Centre for Urban Regional Ecology (CURE) at the University of Manchester, aims to develop tools for analysis of adaptation options in urban areas

in early 2020: Developing a UK Community Emission Modelling System (DUKEMS) Awardees: UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH, coordination), Ricardo, Aether, University of York, University of Manchester, University of Birmingham, King’s College London, Imperial College London, Rothamsted Research

by NOAA Earth Systems Research Laboratory. EXSCALABAR’s first major airborne campaign was CLARIFY-2017, during which highly aged southern African biomass burning aerosol was sampled and Kate has worked in collaboration with colleagues at the University of Manchester to characterise the aerosol’s

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, but less than 0.5°C above in the south-west. Rainfall was 114% of average, but was very variable across the country, with below-average rainfall over most of Wales and the south-west, but more than twice the normal amount from Manchester to Leicestershire. Sunshine was 100% of average, and amounts

there were significant flooding problems across Wales with the Conwy valley badly affected. There was also localised flooding in parts of West Yorkshire and Greater Manchester and temporary barriers were installed in the Midlands on the River Severn. Some flooding was also reported in York from

of Manchester before completing a DPhil on the photomultiplier calibration of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory, an experiment located deep underground in a mine in Ontario, Canada. Since joining the Met Office James completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Weather, Climate and Modelling at the University of Reading.

graduating from the University of Manchester with a first class MMath in Mathematics, including a year studying Statistics at the University of California. Her final Masters project involved using image segmentation techniques to detect stationary precipitation from radar data which could be used