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of the processes in the Earth's atmosphere, land surface and oceans which affect the weather. Once current weather conditions are known, the changes in the weather are predicted by the model. Return to top O Observation a measurement of actual weather conditions by instruments such as weather stations

neat thing we’ve done is that we haven’t just thrown all the input data in the neural network at once. Our inputs include the current temperature, humidity, horizontal wind and so on, all on a global grid and all at multiple heights in the atmosphere. So that’s a lot of data! We’ve found instead

, was an exceptionally powerful storm – comparable in severity with the ‘Great Storm’ of 16 October 1987 – but with the strongest winds further south across the Channel Islands and Northern France. Met Office senior scientist Mike Kendon said: “Once again, the autumn has demonstrated the huge variability in our

.” Once up and running in Summer 2022, the new supercomputer will help ensure government, industry and communities are better prepared for severe weather and our changing climate through: More detailed models combined with an increased number of model scenarios and growing amounts of environmental

intervals. The main weather information provider in the country, Meteo Rwanda, partnered with a private phone company to transmit forecasts to farmers at least once a day. Iteganyagihe Ryacu (IR) aimed to build on this and other projects to ensure that farmers were always able to receive timely

they will begin to die out as we head into the evening and overnight period. And the second half of the night is looking largely dry for the vast majority of us. “There'll be some mist developing once again. Some cloud lingering across the far north of Scotland and low cloud again just pushing into eastern

First explorations Exploring jobs at the Met Office 1 2 3 Tell the group that they are going to look at a cartoon about people working for the Met Office, working together to solve a problem. They will get to know more about those roles and what people like about them Once they have all reviewed

and communicate easily should they get stuck or break down.”    Further ahead As we move towards the weekend, the area of low pressure that has brought the milder air will have moved out to the east, allowing colder air to spread south right across the UK, whilst wintry showers once again will become established

, 2020, was the UK’s sunniest calendar month on record.  “It’s also important to note the unusually stormy conditions seen at times, with intense low pressure on 20 May giving strong winds, especially in exposed coastal areas of Wales and southwest England. Spring 2021 has once again emphasised

at the same date and time. Cumulonimbus Comparison of the manually drawn SIGWX cumulonimbus (CB) areas and the new SIGWX CB areas is more difficult as once again there are differences in what each forecast includes. The manually drawn SIGWX contains areas of ISOL EMBD (embedded CB with <50% spatial