Search results (3092)

Web results

• Memo

  , Chief Scientist, presented the latest reports from the Met Office Scientific Advisory Committee’s (MOSAC) and the Hadley Centre’s Scientific Review Group (SRG). Both were very positive about Met Office science and its progress. The recommendations for areas of further improvement were accepted

• making-use-of-the-weather-layers.pdf

  useful when very heavy showers are expected but it is not possible to forecast exactly where they will form. For example, a warning for heavy rain may be in place over a large area. The warning states that “very localised torrential downpours may lead to flooding.” By monitoring the radar, you can see

• Place

  Automatic and manual stations

  control, and observer availability. A small number of sites are omitted from this webpage because they were either not operating at the time of publishing, or are dedicated to meet very specific customer requirements.

• More hot weather on the horizon for some

  or thunderstorms are possible. As well as the hot daytime temperatures, a very warm night is also expected on Sunday night into Monday”. By Tuesday, the hot air mass will likely become displaced by fresher conditions. The weather then will become unsettled once again, with occasional Atlantic frontal systems

• Met Office provides data for global climate report

  levels and warming oceans. “If we have any chance of avoiding the most severe impacts of global climate change, the science is telling us that we urgently need to see an emissions peak with figures falling very soon after.” Carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere reached a record high

• Surface in-situ Instruments

  and wind. Key challenges in this area are cost effective provision of climate quality records that need to be very highly uniform (see GCOS principles). provision of key measurements including visibility, weather and cloud to continue the manual records where these are no longer made. Continuous

• Orographic processes

  at the process level using numerical models such as Met Office flow over hills model: BLASIUS and the Unified Model at very high resolution, the development of parametrization schemes for use in the Unified Model and  operational lee-wave forecasting models. The work is supported by theory and detailed

• Risk of snow and ice continues – December 2020

  of rain, sleet and snow to parts of southern England and south Wales on Wednesday, but the extent of any snow is very uncertain. There is then a risk of further snow moving south across Scotland, northern England and the Midlands on Thursday”. ⚠️ Snow and ice warnings are in force for many

• Cold snap to come

  The heaviest rain is expected to be across Wales on Wednesday, with some central and southern parts of England and Wales potentially having a very wet day on Friday.  Further north, there will be some sunshine, but also some showers, which will turn heavier, more frequent later in the week

• Microsoft Word - march.docx

  to low levels, mainly from the Midlands northwards. The second half was generally settled with high pressure close by. It was generally cloudy until the 23rd, but the last week was often very sunny. The mean temperature for March was provisionally 1.5 °C above the 1981-2010 long-term average, making