Meteorology
Severe weather warning for UK as Storm Barra set to arrive on Tuesday
Met Office issues wind warnings in England, Wales and Northern Ireland and snow warnings in Scotland
Jessica Murray Midlands correspondent
05, Dec, 2021 @4:26 PM
Readers reply: how is the wind-chill factor calculated?
The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts
05, Dec, 2021 @2:00 PM
From foxy to gleamy: winter weather words you’ll never hear in forecasts
Precise language used by meteorologists often misses out on some of the more vivid wintry terms
David Hambling
04, Dec, 2021 @6:00 AM
Poverty, not climate breakdown, caused Madagascar’s food crisis, finds study
But scientists say ‘moral imperative’ remains to prepare vulnerable populations for increasingly extreme weather
Damian Carrington Environment editor
01, Dec, 2021 @11:01 PM
How is the wind-chill factor calculated?
The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts
28, Nov, 2021 @2:01 PM
From Babylon to Google: a history of weather forecasting
AI has taken the place of astrology as humans have worked through the millennia for knowledge of when it will rain
Tom Ambrose
29, Sep, 2021 @3:00 PM
World weatherwatch: Peru’s saint of storms brings salvation to cities and ski slopes
Seasonal storms that blow up on the Peruvian coast at this time of year are named after St Rosa
David Hambling
21, Aug, 2021 @5:00 AM
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19, Aug, 2021 @5:38 PM
Highest recorded temperature of 48.8C in Europe apparently logged in Sicily
Reading at monitoring station in Syracuse unverified but comes amid heatwave in last few days
Phoebe Weston and Jonathan Watts
11, Aug, 2021 @7:31 PM
Always take the weather with you: 100 years of forecasting broadcasts
In the century since the first on-air report in 1921, meteorologists have - almost - got the science of forecasting down to a fine art
Benjie Goodhart
26, Apr, 2021 @12:43 PM
Sub-Saharan meningitis epidemics could be signalled by weather forecasts
Pilot scheme is under way to harness forecasts to predict where conditions that fuel cases are likely to develop
Nicola Davis Science correspondent
12, Apr, 2021 @5:00 AM
Second vessel in two weeks appears to float above UK waters
‘Superior mirage’ illusion resurfaces in Dorset a fortnight after similar pictures taken near Falmouth
Haroon Siddique and Ian Sample
18, Mar, 2021 @3:56 PM
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