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smartphone Phones may be multi-purpose tools, but in the event of a breakdown on the side of a country road at night, a phone light won’t give you enough visibility, and you might not have enough service to accurately pinpoint your location. Instead, keep a torch and a paper road atlas in your car

– with testbed preparatory, co-production and -design meetings and activities occurring throughout the project. The first testbed took place in Zambia, with centres in Mozambique and South Africa, in January/February 2024. A steep learning curve followed, especially as the country was experiencing

State of the UK Climate 2015 Mike Kendon 1 , Dr Mark McCarthy 1 , Dr Svetlana Jevrejeva 2 , Tim Legg 1 1 Met Office National Climate Information Centre 2 National Oceanography Centre Cover: Satellite image of storm Desmond on 5 December 2015. The low pressure centre is off south-east Iceland at 940

frost in rural areas. Outlook for Sunday Sunday looks more settled overall. Most areas will remain dry with a mix of cloud and sunny intervals. A few light showers may develop in northern and eastern regions, but these will be isolated. Temperatures will be near average in the south and west, while

and sunny, with light to moderate easterly winds and high UV levels. Maximum temperatures will reach 17°C and 18°C respectively, but clear skies overnight will cause temperatures to plummet, potentially as low as -1°C, raising the risk of frost. Participants camping out will need to be well-prepared

The forecast for Sunday indicates that the southeast will experience a largely settled day with bright intervals, which are expected to be prolonged in the far south and southeast. Any fog or low cloud in these areas is expected to clear quickly, resulting in a fine day with light to moderate winds

and carrots for example and newly planted lettuces and other plants but should not greatly delay sowing and planting once conditions improve. Tender plants, petunias and tomatoes for example, won’t be put outside for another month at least but lower light affects greenhouses and will slow

Cold air either from Northern Europe, as at present, or from Canada later on, will cover the UK this week, bringing low temperatures. With the low temperatures, further snow is likely in places, the next batch as a front moves eastwards, bumping into the cold air and leading to some mostly light

The colder and more unsettled weather continues for much of the country heading into the weekend, with wintry showers bringing light accumulations of snow to some areas, particularly on high ground.

will help new sowings of peas and carrots for example and newly planted lettuces and other plants but should not greatly delay sowing and planting once conditions improve. Tender plants, petunias and tomatoes for example, won’t be put outside for another month at least but lower light affects

Heliospheric Imaging at L5 T.A. Howard & C.E. DeForest Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO, USA Predicting the St Valentine’s Day CME 2 White Light Imaging The Binding Agent Between Solar Observations, In-situ Measurements, and Modeling Problems With Coronagraphs Background removal Nature