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, ask the pupils to come up with a list of things that they can find in the sky if went outside and looked up at different times of the day and night. If they are close to a window, ask your pupils to look outside for ideas or take them outside to observe. Groupwork 5 minutes Examples: clouds, birds

Office plays an essential role in dealing with many of the issues. These include severe weather, space weather, coastal flooding, drought etc. Met Office Services Director, Simon Brown, explains the Met Office role when it comes to preparing for and coping with many of these risks. The Met Office

amplifying the temperatures in the UK. Climate scientists call this the soil moisture feedback. These three elements have come together in the UK: the global wavenumber 5 pattern driving high temperatures, in the presence of an already warmed climate due to climate change, further enhanced

a critical role through the pre-season and during times when no natural snow is expected. The process requires: water, often sourced from nearby reservoirs; air temperatures between -1°C to 6°C; low humidity air; and light winds. Artificial snow comes with a number of caveats – it requires considerable

but for most of the country it stayed dry with sunny spells. Much of the country was sunny on the 13th and 14th, and warm especially in the north, and the 14th had a high of 23.0 °C at Levens Hall (Cumbria) and 15.4 hours of sunshine at East Malling (Kent). The dry, settled weather continued on the 15th

Wellesbourne, Warwickshire 39.0 0.3 16.2 Coton-in-the-Elms, Derbyshire 38.9 0.2 17.0 High Beach, Essex 38.8 0.1 15.9 Houghton Hall, Norfolk 38.7 0.0 16.9 Coventry, West Midlands 38.7 0.0 16.7 Benson, Oxfordshire 38.7 0.0 15.9 Many long-running stations across the UK network recorded their hottest

desired product. Implementation outside the scope of UKCP18. References Borgomeo, E., Pflug, G., Hall, J.W, Hochrainer-Stigler, S. (2015). Assessing water resource system vulnerability to unprecedented hydrological drought using copulas to characterize drought duration and deficit, Water Resour

to the PWSCG on the findings from the recent Chemet and Heat workshops By 31 Oct 1. Welcome and Introductions WW opened the meeting and welcomed everyone. Apologies were received from Tracy Goode (Welsh Gov), Charlie Hall (NPCC), Craig Woolhouse (EA), Ben Fletcher (CO), John Irvine (N Ireland) SJ

CFOA Cabinet Office Environment Agency DCLG MOD MCA Met Office Met Office Met Office Met Office Met Office 1 Welcome & Introductions – Wyn Williams, Chair PWSCG WW opened the meeting and welcomed everyone. Apologies had been received from Paul Furlong (Highways England), Charlie Hall (ACPO) Tracy

have heard in the news about something called COP (Conference of Parties). At events like this, nations across the world come together annually to discuss the issue of climate change, and to work together to decide targets for future emissions reductions. For example, at COP21 which took place in 2015