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• Will UK thunderstorms become more extreme as our climate changes?

  causes thunder and lightning, how climate change may influence future storms in the UK, and what you can do to stay safe when they occur. What are thunderstorms? Thunderstorms form when warm, moist air rises rapidly into cooler air above, creating instability in the atmosphere. This process leads

• metoffice_weatherwarriors_firstexplorations_22-04_weather-action-plan.pdf

  of weather? E.g. How does excessive heat, rain, cold or drought impact communities? • What can be done to manage these risks? E.g. Extended periods of dry weather could impact water supplies, while excessive flooding can cause water pollution and affect people’s ability to travel. How could we deal

• wiser_newsletter_0719.pdf

  also be interested in receiving this newsletter, do ask them to subscribe by emailing us. You can also keep up to date by viewing the Met Office and ACPC web pages, joining our LinkedIn group and following our Twitter hashtag #UKaidWISER. WISER East Africa High Impact Weather Lake System (HIGHWAY

• Met Office daily weather: Starting the week on a wet note before temperatures rise again

  wind. But away from the cloud around coastal districts, there is some sunshine breaking through as well for Northern Ireland. Do watch out for a few showers around North Wales, parts of northwest England. And there is just some heavy rain lingering around Kent and Sussex first thing this morning

• World Meteorological Day 2025: Early warning systems are imperative

  Scientific weather observations confirm this; news reports of damage caused by extreme rain or heat echo this as do already-constrained budgets required to deal with infrastructural damage, not to mention the price ordinary citizens pay in the form of trauma and displacement caused by chaos

• April showers in shorter supply, but sunshine plentiful for many

  surpassed by sunnier Aprils in 2020, 2021 and 2025. April 2026 ranked as England’s third sunniest, Scotland’s sixth and Wales’s eight sunniest on record. How does spring so far compare with last year's record-breaking spring Many will remember spring 2025 as the warmest and sunniest on record for the UK

• Storm Claudia: Why names matter when weather turns wild

  example: named by the Spanish Meteorological Service AEMET, Claudia has brought amber warnings to parts of England and Wales for impactful rain. So why did we stick with the name Claudia, and how does the storm naming process work? Why Storm Claudia kept her name Storm Claudia was not named

• wiser-ewsa-testbed-daily-report---290124.pdf

  ). - Plotting impact areas on the template maps in powerpoint is very time-consuming, especially for the nowcasting groups. Is there any other software to do this? The synoptic summary of regional drivers can be made more systematic by defining a set of standard plots which can be pre-loaded every morning

• caa-case-study-4---high-pressure---winter-flight-gamet.pdf

  to the trough. Lydd is both coastal and near to the trough. Lydd’s runway is aligned 03-21, so thankfully cross wind on take-off should not be an issue. However, beware of gusts to 30kts. c. Site specific information Let’s have a look at the METARs/TAFs along the route, do they confirm

• Pacific Ocean warming signals the possible return of a strong El Niño

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