The Royal Meteorological Society, in association with AccuWeather, is hosting an exclusive FREE virtual event on Thursday 25 March 6-7pm (GMT) ahead of launching this year’s Weather Photographer of the Year competition at the end of April.
A panel of professional photographers, previous winners, meteorologists and competition judges will spill the secrets on what makes a great weather photo, knowing the weather and getting the best out of your camera equipment.
Why are the dates of the seasons different for meteorologists and astronomers? The simple answer is because the two groups look at different things.
What is the jet stream and how does it have such an impact on our weather? After an exceptional few days of warm weather last week, we are going to re-visit an article explaining the jet stream by Weather co-editor Simon Lee...
Prof Liz Bentley, Chief Executive of the Royal Meteorological Society, reflects on a busy summer when weather and climate featured heavily in the media.
Eleanor Lashford, an Operational Meteorologist from the Met Office, provides a first hand account of the preparation involved in providing the weather services for the Royal International Air Tattoo (RIAT). On Monday 9th July 2018, Eleanor and three other Meteorologists from the Met Office, headed to RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire for RIAT 2018, famously known for being the world’s greatest and largest military airshow.
All enjoyable things must come to an end and so it is that I find myself thinking what to write about in my last article for theWeather Club. Over the years I’ve covered all things hot to cold, calm to stormy, hurricanes to tornadoes, so I thought it was about time I wrote about communicating the weather, or the weather forecast to be more precise. It’s all very good making an outstanding forecast, but if you cannot get the forecast across to the user of the information then to all intents and purposes it is worthless, at least to that user.
By Adam Corner*, Research Director at Climate Outreach, and an Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Psychology, Cardiff University.
Over the last decade, the level of interest in climate change communication has grown rapidly – there’s now a huge number of people, organisations and institutions involved in the theory and practice of public engagement.
by Prof Paul Hardaker
Chief Executive of The Institute of Physics
The Institute of Physics (IoP) is the national physical society for both Ireland and the UK, so I often find myself travelling through Dublin airport. Where I board the plane there are tributes to the famous Irish poets, including a personal favorite, William Butler Yeats. He wrote a beautiful poem called cloths of heaven, which I have to share with you here:
by David Warrilow
RMetS Vice- President and Chair of the Climate Science Special Interest Group
At the weekend I was in Porthcawl in Wales at an Elvis festival. It’s best not to ask why but suffice to say I wasn’t a participant, just an observer. Elvis was everywhere, and for some reason I found myself strangely drawn to the Elvis look-a-like dog show. I can safely say I have never seen anything quite like it and frankly hope to never again. There was no escape, not even in the chip shop, where Elvis serenaded us through our large cod, chips and peas.
