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impacts in the south-west of England on the 1st and 2nd. The M48 between junctions 1 and 2 was closed temporarily and the Sandbanks Ferry, the St Mawes Ferry and the Tamar Ferry were suspended due to strong winds. On the 11th there was flooding on roads in south-east Wales and in Swansea. Further

of over 750 million people could be affected. He stressed that information from climate services would be very helpful in designing future climate support and that the ARRCC programme is a critically important project for DFID. In conclusion, he said that climate science can help create a win-win

to write notes under each word as they hear the information. The first group to complete a row on their card shouts ‘bingo!’. They must be able to verbally explain each term in order to validate their win. Alternatively, for a simpler task, ask pupils to circle the terms as they hear them and talk

of the meteorological advice his staff could provide, the director of the Meteorological Office, W Napier Shaw, acted quickly. In just over a month he had completed initial negotiations with the war office and arranged for the establishment of the Meteorological Field Service as a section of the Royal

4 shows. Designing award-winning gardens, or helping everyone eat better, tastier food through his best-selling books. As a self-confessed botany geek, James Wong has built a career around plants. n fact, James can’t remember a time when he wasn’t completely fascinated by them. Having grown up

season. He said: “Temperature range is a very interesting issue when it comes to the ability of Britain’s railways to run safely.  “At the cold end of the spectrum, the steel on our railways contracts, which can put them under massive tension and expose any underlying flaws. When it gets hotter

Summer 2019 in the UK was record-breaking with a maximum temperature of 38.7 C at Cambridge University Botanic Garden logged on 25 July. That was the highest temperature ever recorded in the UK.

However, one temperature record can’t tell the full story of a season overall. So how did Summer 2019 compare with previous summers? Tim Legg, of the Met Office’s National Climate Information Centre, provides more detail. He said: “Overall Summer 2019 was the twelfth warmest on record since 1910

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was severely injured in a stagecoach accident. It ended his seagoing career, and he was then put to work as Superintendent of the US Navy Depot of Charts and Instruments at the US Naval Observatory. He realised that he now had at his disposal thousands of observations about wind, weather and currents

of string. Step 2: Tape the other end of the string to the marked point on the anemometer sheet. Step 3: Work in pairs or individually to hold up the anemometers OR stick them onto a wall and blow on the object from one side in order to raise the string. Use the chart to see how fast the air is moving