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for recognising achievement; the approach to measuring forecast accuracy using a range of measures, including public and non-public measures taken from customer agreements, was agreed; and that the Board would formally approve in April once the exact targets were fixed. � The Board discussed

. The clustering of warm events means that what was once extraordinary is becoming more familiar. However, the changing climate has important implications for how we perceive and adapt to climate change. Buildings in the UK, for example, are often designed to retain heat during the colder winter months

be for predicting cloud amounts accurately, which can have a big impact on the accuracy of temperature and sunshine forecasts. Simon explained: “Once you get into the detail of forecasting specific cloud amounts in specific locations, it takes a certain amount of skill, from both weather models

. Climate Climate is the average measurements of temperature, wind, snow, humidity and rain in the course of a long period of time in a particular location. Climate is like the weather, but over many years. To help you remember, someone once said “Climate is what you expect, weather is what you get

suppliers who respond to one-to-one meetings, providing the opportunity to discuss specific topics in a greater level of detail. The Met Office reserves the right to target the subject areas it wishes to speak about. The planned structure of these meetings will be made available once the Met Office has

satellite images, instruments and other weather data to detect and track them through their life-cycle. Once detected, their track is forecast using a combination of numerical forecasting models, synoptic forecasting and statistical methods, which have been developed from the study of the behaviour

, with thunderstorms in places on some days, though the final week was drier once more. It was another drier than average month, and there was plenty of sunshine, especially early on. The provisional UK mean temperature was 16.7 °C, which is 1.5 °C above the long-term average. It was warmest relative to average

rain spread into the south-west and showers developed in the south-east and south Midlands around teatime. The east coast once again saw mist and fog early on the 27th, while all areas remained generally cloudy, with showers or longer spells of rain in southern counties through the day, locally heavy

of eastern and south-east England, with several road traffic accidents attributed to the weather, and cross-Channel ferries struggling to dock at Calais due to the winds. Arctic air made a brief return to the northern half of Scotland around the 7th, with reports of several vehicles stuck in snow