Weather Digitised International Cloud Atlas launched on World Meteorological Day 23 March 2017 On 23rd March 2017 - World Meteorological Day - the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) released its new, online, digitised International Cloud Atlas, which is the global reference for observing and identifying clouds. Weather On This Day: 1953 East Coast Flood 30 January 2017 On night of 31st January 1953 Britain suffered one of its greatest peacetime disasters. Climate 2016 Hottest Year on Record 18 January 2017 WO and Met Office analyses shows 2016 was the hottest on record Weather New cloud type spotted over Snowdonia 14 November 2016 These rare, rippling clouds resemble ocean waves in the sky, but what are they called and how do they form? Climate Recalling the 1976 drought: 40 years on 21 June 2016 Remembering the long hot summer of 1976 Climate Alberta's wildfires remain out of control 16 May 2016 Weather Rare sighting of sinusoidal thin contrails 07 April 2016 The Royal Meteorological Soceity received these photographs this week, sent in from Tofino, on the west of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada, asking for an explanation of how they are formed. Weather Nacreous clouds 03 February 2016 Several rare sightings of nacreous clouds have been reported over the last few days, delighting cloudspotters, with photographs of the clouds coming from England and Scotland. Weather What are noctilucent clouds? 28 April 2014 Noctilucent clouds are very fine, wispy formations made out of ice crystals that occur high up in the mesosphere (50-53 miles) and are the highest clouds in the Earth’s atmosphere.
Weather Digitised International Cloud Atlas launched on World Meteorological Day 23 March 2017 On 23rd March 2017 - World Meteorological Day - the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) released its new, online, digitised International Cloud Atlas, which is the global reference for observing and identifying clouds.
Weather On This Day: 1953 East Coast Flood 30 January 2017 On night of 31st January 1953 Britain suffered one of its greatest peacetime disasters.
Climate 2016 Hottest Year on Record 18 January 2017 WO and Met Office analyses shows 2016 was the hottest on record
Weather New cloud type spotted over Snowdonia 14 November 2016 These rare, rippling clouds resemble ocean waves in the sky, but what are they called and how do they form?
Weather Rare sighting of sinusoidal thin contrails 07 April 2016 The Royal Meteorological Soceity received these photographs this week, sent in from Tofino, on the west of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada, asking for an explanation of how they are formed.
Weather Nacreous clouds 03 February 2016 Several rare sightings of nacreous clouds have been reported over the last few days, delighting cloudspotters, with photographs of the clouds coming from England and Scotland.
Weather What are noctilucent clouds? 28 April 2014 Noctilucent clouds are very fine, wispy formations made out of ice crystals that occur high up in the mesosphere (50-53 miles) and are the highest clouds in the Earth’s atmosphere.