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Weather Atlantic hurricanes: Irma and Maria 30 October 2017 Record Hurricane season topped off by Irma and Maria with devastating consequences.
Weather Ophelia and the red sky 20 October 2017 Dust and smoke turn skies red after ex-hurricane's stormy passage across the British Isles.
Weather Ex-Hurricane Ophelia brings stormy conditions to the British Isles 17 October 2017 Ex-Hurricane Ophelia brought wet weather and gusts exceeding 96 mph to the UK and Ireland on 16th October, the 30th anniversary of the Great Storm of 1987.
Weather Elvis is alive and well and in Porthcawl 26 September 2017 At the weekend I was in Porthcawl in Wales at an Elvis festival.
In the Spotlight Drizzle riddle solved 22 August 2017 Updrafts are more important than previously thought in determining whether clouds produce drizzle rather than normal-sized raindrops.
In the Spotlight Why does pressure fall off more slowly in warm air than cold air? 20 June 2017 There are two questions here. The first is does pressure fall off more slowly in warm air than cold air?
In the Spotlight The jet stream: chicken or egg? 19 June 2017 Does the position of the warm and cold upper air masses determine the route of the jet stream, or does the jet stream determine the position of the cold and warm upper air masses? Which is the chicken and which the egg?
In the Spotlight Wind speeds in Saturn's jet stream whizz round at over 1,000mph 11 November 2016 New research has revealed the planet has the widest, most intense jet stream out of all the planets in the solar system
Climate What is the autumn equinox? 22 September 2016 As you have very likely noticed, the sun is setting earlier and the nights are getting longer, marked officially by the autumn equinox. Find out when it is and what the equilux is too.