Climate Mount Agung and its potential global impacts 29 November 2017 Since mid-November, Mount Agung on the Indonesian Island of Bali has been emitting steam and ash, lava is visible in the crater and rivers of mud have been flowing down its sides. Weather The day the sun turned red 17 October 2017 On the 16th October people across the UK turned their heads to the sky as it looked like an Instagram filter had been applied in real life. 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. Weather Ice lollies' found in UK clouds 28 June 2017 Clouds aren’t typically associated with ice lollies, but rather sunshine – until now. Weather What does a cloud feel like? 27 June 2017 A blog post by MetMatters guest writer, Dr Ellie Highwood, Professor of Climate Physics at the University of Reading In the Spotlight Have you ever had that sinking feeling? 26 June 2017 A blog post by our guest writer, Prof Paul Hardaker, Chief Executive of The Institute of Physics 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? Weather Study explains science behind asperitas, a newly recognised cloud 10 May 2017 Citizen science has now helped experts to explain how the newly-recognised ‘wave-like’ asperitas cloud is formed.
Climate Mount Agung and its potential global impacts 29 November 2017 Since mid-November, Mount Agung on the Indonesian Island of Bali has been emitting steam and ash, lava is visible in the crater and rivers of mud have been flowing down its sides.
Weather The day the sun turned red 17 October 2017 On the 16th October people across the UK turned their heads to the sky as it looked like an Instagram filter had been applied in real life.
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.
Weather Ice lollies' found in UK clouds 28 June 2017 Clouds aren’t typically associated with ice lollies, but rather sunshine – until now.
Weather What does a cloud feel like? 27 June 2017 A blog post by MetMatters guest writer, Dr Ellie Highwood, Professor of Climate Physics at the University of Reading
In the Spotlight Have you ever had that sinking feeling? 26 June 2017 A blog post by our guest writer, Prof Paul Hardaker, Chief Executive of The Institute of Physics
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?
Weather Study explains science behind asperitas, a newly recognised cloud 10 May 2017 Citizen science has now helped experts to explain how the newly-recognised ‘wave-like’ asperitas cloud is formed.