Monthly Archives: March 2025

By: Dr. Harriet Turner The solar wind is a constant stream of charged particles that flows from the Sun and fills the solar system. It is an important aspect of space weather, which is the term we use to describe … Continue reading →

By: Prof. Richard Allan (Professor of Climate Science) The exceptional global warmth of 2023 and 2024 generated much idle chit chat in Meteorological circles and following a summer Met department coffee room chinwag with Chris Merchant, an ill thought out plan … Continue reading →

By: Prof Sarah Dance (Professor of Data Assimilation) Last week, on 25th February 2025, our colleagues at ECMWF (European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts) took their deep-learning-based global weather forecasting system, known as the AIFS, into operational production, running alongside their … Continue reading →

By: Dr. Matthew Patterson Wavy bands of fast flowing air, called jet streams, are some of the most recognisable features of the Earth’s atmospheric circulation (figure 1). They have a critical impact on weather in temperate regions by directing the … Continue reading →