In the Spotlight Weather Highs and lows of daily temperature records 29 September 2021 During summer heatwaves or severe winter cold spells, everybody wants to know if such high or low temperatures are unusual, or indeed record-breaking. Given that unseasonably warm and cold spells affect the UK most years, this interest in climatic extremes is nothing new. But creating the official list of daily temperature records for the UK was no easy task. In the Spotlight Weather Martian Meteorology 16 August 2021 Mars, one of our nearest neighbours, is a fascinating, alien world. With NASA hoping for human missions to Mars in the 2030s, what kind of weather could visiting Earthlings expect? Citizen Science Climate In the Spotlight Weather Record-breaking heat in Canada 01 July 2021 Heat, drought, poor air quality, floods and wildfires are expected to worsen with climate change. Western Canada is experiencing all of these in a one week period … while attempting to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. In the Spotlight Routing apps can deliver real-time insights into traffic emissions 20 August 2020 Routing apps such as Google Maps or Nokia’s Here platform could offer a cost-effective way of calculating emission hotspots in real time, say researchers at the University of Birmingham. In the Spotlight The Extreme Seasonality of 'Winterpeg' 22 July 2020 Dr Michelle McCrystall is a polar scientist who is currently working at the University of Manitoba. Having moved to the city of Winnipeg in the last 6 months, she has experienced some dramatic changes in climate across the seasons. In the Spotlight Scottish Snow Patches Report 2019/2020 07 July 2020 Iain Cameron and Blair Fyffe have just published the 24th annual report on the survival of Scottish snow patches in July’s issue of Weather. In the Spotlight How Will COVID-19 Affect the Weather Forecast? 26 March 2020 Aeroplanes provide important information about the current state of the atmosphere, and have done since the beginning of commercial flights. In the Spotlight Saharan Dust and Heart Failure 05 February 2020 A new study published in 2020 in the Journal of Clinical Medicine, has highlighted just how serious dust storms can be for those living within the Earth’s dust belt. In the Spotlight 60 Years of Weather Recording 22 January 2020 Looking for 'high ground in the garden' in case it snowed was just the first indication of John Goulding's interest in weather.
In the Spotlight Weather Highs and lows of daily temperature records 29 September 2021 During summer heatwaves or severe winter cold spells, everybody wants to know if such high or low temperatures are unusual, or indeed record-breaking. Given that unseasonably warm and cold spells affect the UK most years, this interest in climatic extremes is nothing new. But creating the official list of daily temperature records for the UK was no easy task.
In the Spotlight Weather Martian Meteorology 16 August 2021 Mars, one of our nearest neighbours, is a fascinating, alien world. With NASA hoping for human missions to Mars in the 2030s, what kind of weather could visiting Earthlings expect?
Citizen Science Climate In the Spotlight Weather Record-breaking heat in Canada 01 July 2021 Heat, drought, poor air quality, floods and wildfires are expected to worsen with climate change. Western Canada is experiencing all of these in a one week period … while attempting to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.
In the Spotlight Routing apps can deliver real-time insights into traffic emissions 20 August 2020 Routing apps such as Google Maps or Nokia’s Here platform could offer a cost-effective way of calculating emission hotspots in real time, say researchers at the University of Birmingham.
In the Spotlight The Extreme Seasonality of 'Winterpeg' 22 July 2020 Dr Michelle McCrystall is a polar scientist who is currently working at the University of Manitoba. Having moved to the city of Winnipeg in the last 6 months, she has experienced some dramatic changes in climate across the seasons.
In the Spotlight Scottish Snow Patches Report 2019/2020 07 July 2020 Iain Cameron and Blair Fyffe have just published the 24th annual report on the survival of Scottish snow patches in July’s issue of Weather.
In the Spotlight How Will COVID-19 Affect the Weather Forecast? 26 March 2020 Aeroplanes provide important information about the current state of the atmosphere, and have done since the beginning of commercial flights.
In the Spotlight Saharan Dust and Heart Failure 05 February 2020 A new study published in 2020 in the Journal of Clinical Medicine, has highlighted just how serious dust storms can be for those living within the Earth’s dust belt.
In the Spotlight 60 Years of Weather Recording 22 January 2020 Looking for 'high ground in the garden' in case it snowed was just the first indication of John Goulding's interest in weather.