by Jon Shonk With Christmas lights sparkling in cities all around the UK, department stores festooned with lights and decorations and Christmas songs starting to be played on the radio, … Continue reading “Odds On for a White Christmas…? Time Will Tell”
By Stephen Burt, Department of Meteorology Weather records began at Reading University College (as it was then) back in 1901, but in all the years since we’ve never had a … Continue reading “The big freeze in Reading”
By Stephen Burt It often comes as a great surprise to residents of Reading and the surrounding areas to find that sea breezes occur this far inland. In fact, they … Continue reading “Sea breezes – in Reading?? Surely not!”
By Stephen Burt Automatic weather stations (AWS) are increasingly commonplace in meteorological reporting systems: today more than half of all surface observations come from sites that are partly or fully … Continue reading “The new International Cloud Atlas”
By Roger Brugge This tongue-in-cheek look at Reading’s weather in winter and its relationship to cycling safety was prompted by a couple of ice-related accidents experienced by members of staff … Continue reading “Winter weather – and cycling in Reading”
By Karen Rowlett Research Publications Adviser, University of Reading Library Have you been asked for your ORCID ID yet? Increasingly, research funders, employers and publishers are asking their researchers to … Continue reading “What is an ORCID?”
Next week is ‘Open Access Week’ , and to celebrate this, all Royal Society journal content will be completely free to access from Friday 21 October until 6 November. Solar … Continue reading “Open Access week – and atmospheric effects of solar eclipses”
Gardeners among the readership of this blog may already be watering their seeds in an attempt to ensure germination and early growth, and may be wondering how common this activity … Continue reading “Watering the garden in April – how unusual is this?”
Much has been written/spoken in recent weeks about the amount of rain that has fallen this winter (December-February) in southern England (and other regions) of the United Kingdom. But several … Continue reading “A wet winter – and what might come next?”
A brief overview After a dry start to December 2013 (just 11.3 mm of rain fell in the 33 days ending 0900 UTC on 15 December at the Department’s weather … Continue reading “December 2013-January 2014 in Reading: Wet and, at times, stormy”