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Our
@metoffice
forecasters have issued the first ever Red Extreme heat warning for unprecedented heat across parts of the UK on Monday and Tuesday.
Please take this warning seriously and take steps to keep you and those around you safe.
#heatwave
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Are others being spammed by porny adverts for prostitutes on
#Elon
‘s X? I’ve reported about 20 in the last week, but they are still appearing. All just round the corner, allegedly, which would be a surprise in this corner of very rural Devon.
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Immensely proud of the whole
@metoffice
team at the end of a long day for the early prediction of
#StormEunice
alongside
#StormDudley
on Monday and the accurate warnings since. Great response from our media and resilience partners too.
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The team producing your forecast don’t stop because it’s Christmas. Shift change time
@metoffice
HQ and thanks to all on duty today and tonight
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@hannahmmalcolm
Sincere condolences from
@metoffice
to you and your family. Sir John Houghton’s leadership in weather and climate science will be remembered in his time as Director General of the Met Office from 1983-91 and as the founder of the Met Office Hadley Centre 30 years ago this year.
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We really don’t do this very often. Please take care and heed the advice.
⚠️⚠️⚠️ Rare Red weather warning issued ⚠️⚠️⚠️
#StormArwen
will bring a spell of very strong winds to parts of northeast Scotland and northeast England
Friday 1500 - Saturday 0200
Latest info 👉
Stay
#WeatherAware
⚠️
#Redwarning
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Many weeks in the planning and proud to say we had 1600 staff online remotely today without issues. We’ve tested every desk for a full 12 hour shift from home as well to ensure your forecasts will still be delivered. Thanks to the network teams and to all staff for flexibility.
In line with the latest guidance from UK Government we’re supporting non-operational staff to begin working from home by default. This is in order to protect them while ensuring we are able to maintain our critical safety of life services we have come to rely on.
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@AdamBienkov
@DanKaszeta
There’s been an upsurge of denying the data as the effects grow stronger. “You’ve made the map scary, hidden sensors in hot places, reported hotter temperatures than really happened, switched to measuring surface instead of air temp, changed old records to be cooler.” All false.
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When will we know what the highest temperatures have been? There’s a rigorous process of validation and only some sites report hourly. Climate sites report twice daily or even weekly, so the highest temperatures could take a while to register. 1/2
With record temperatures forecast in the UK over the next 24 hours, our latest blog takes a look at how we measure temperature and the steps taken to check the quality of records before they are confirmed 👇
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Thanks to all the dedicated meteorologists who have been on shift over the past week for the hard work to make and deliver these early and accurate forecasts, and help the UK to be as prepared as we could be for this truly exceptional
#Heatwave2022
Here are the highest temperatures across the country today 👇
At least 34 sites have exceeded the UK's previous national record of 38.7°C 🌡️
#heatwave2022
#heatwave
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Lots of fun collecting CBE at Windsor Castle today. I am proud to represent the
@metoffice
. Plus lovely to meet Dame Maggie Aderin-Pocock at the head of the queue
#LadiesWhoScience
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Ridiculously pleased to be back in
@metoffice
Exeter for one day to check out our COVID secure arrangements. Even though there are more bottles of hand sanitiser than people.
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@BristOliver
Great thread. We see similar in climate science with a preponderance of deniers convinced we’ve faked the lot in pursuit of funding but a fair few human extinction is imminent doomers. Plus all the cherry picked data.
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I am so privileged to lead a fantastic team of staff and a great organisation. Many thanks for all the kind messages which have been lighting up every digital channel . Plus warm congratulations to
@StottPeter
Congratulations to
@metofficece
Penny Endersby who has been awarded a CBE for services to meteorology, defence science & technology
Congratulations to
@StottPeter
, who has been awarded an MBE for services to Climate Science & International Climate Action
Get their reactions 👇
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A pleasure to host
@ChiefExecCCC
and colleagues from the
@theCCCuk
the the
@metoffice
today and work on how we can best provide the evidence to support their work
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Absolutely delighted to see
@metoffice
@IPCC_CH
lead author
@h_t_hewitt
made OBE in the
#QueensBirthdayHonours
A role model for leadership in climate change science
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@metoffice
engineers are on standby to collect kit from record-breaking sites and bring it back for confirmatory calibration. Good scientific recording takes care and time.
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We are all understandably preoccupied with the terrible invasion of Ukraine right now. But this is truly shocking and reinforces the urgency for decarbonisation
Extraordinary and unprecedented heat in East
#Antarctica
, with an "atmospheric river" bringing heat and moisture
Remote Dome C research station saw a temperature nearly 40 °C ABOVE normal, beating the previous March record by a startling 20 °C, per
@RARohde
#ClimateChange
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Proud to have the
@metoffice
shortlisted in five categories in the
#womenintechexcellence
awards. Looking forwards to a fun evening
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We’ve reached the point where claiming the science is wrong has become untenable: hence the attacks on authoritative sources of data
Important work by
@MarcoLSilva
countering the many false claims that are being spread about the heatwaves. The data, as he patiently explains, are accurate.
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Enjoyed Gaia
@ExeterCathedral
. I know it’s meant to make you think all kinds of numinous things but I’m afraid it mostly made me think of a global meteorological model 🤷♀️
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@Azeem_Majeed
I recall the advent of PowerPoint usually involved the important person standing in front of a full lecture theatre while panicking minions struggled to get the slides to project. And Luddites scoffing that never happened with their handwritten acetates.
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When I joined the
@metoffice
3 years ago I was not shocked by climate change science. But I was shocked to learn how long we’ve known about it. Did you know we’ve known CO2 was a greenhouse gas since the mid C19th? Or that the first warming signals were detected in the 1930s?
On 1st September 1972,
@metoffice
scientist John Sawyer published a
@Nature
paper 'Man-Made Carbon Dioxide and the "Greenhouse" Effect'
He predicted that the world would warm by 0.6°C by the end of the 20th Century
The actual warming was nearly 0.5°C - a pretty good prediction!
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During the
@WMO
congress we made important decisions in support of improving weather data exchange to achieve Early Warning for All. But we also make great friendships. Thanks to our outgoing president Gerhard Adrian & Ken Graham
@NWSDirector
for towering over me with such charm
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Once this would have been a moderately warmer than average July. In today’s climate it was a moderately cool one. But it was wet by any standards 🌧️🌧️
Here's how the mean temperature in July 2023 compared against the 1961-1990 average and the 1991-2010 average.
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The
@metoffice
bee orchids are mostly over, but these beefy helleborines are just getting into their stride in Exeter. I think they’re broad-leaves helleborines.
#wildflowerhour
@BSBIbotany
@wildflower_hour
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A different way to look at
#climatechange
Climate change will affect everything & everyone we love! There is still time to act & meet the
#ParisAgreement
goal to limit warming & improve our lives.
Here’s us, our family & friends, showing how global temperature has changed since the pre-industrial era (1850 – 1900)
#COP26
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Oh my there’s a lot of straw-clutching in this tweet. Record will be provisional until we’ve collected the gauge and re-confirmed its calibration. Don’t think any of our obs engineers have pink hair but that isn’t in itself a disqualification
@metoffice
How far back are you going for your record max temperature? In any case I bet that some pink haired eco warrior has wrongly calibrated your temperature gage. I bet it was warmer during the medieval warm period but then your records don't go back that far do they? Propaganda.
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Taken aback to realise today, when this arrived at my elbow, it’s 30 years since I started as a scientific officer at RARDE Fort Halstead. The
@UKCivilService
has given me amazing opportunities, but above all it’s been a privilege to work with brilliant and dedicated colleagues
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Scarlet pimpernel, once known as poor man’s weather glass. It promised fair, but I still checked
@metoffice
radar before leaving washing out under a grey sky. Both were right today but it reminded me how more accurate forecasts were once the preserve of the rich.
#wildflowerhour
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Since 2008 as part of our Biodiversity benchmark,
@metoffice
has been curating bee orchids. We started with one, now there are 390 on site. Pleased to find broad-leaved helleborine mixed in with them too.
@BSBIbotany
#wildflowerhour
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A snapshot from a very productive board to board between
@metoffice
and
@ECMWF
yesterday: thanks
@FlorenceRabier
et al.
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Couldn’t miss the chance to visit the
@metoffice
bee orchids over lunch. They’ll be well over before I’m back in office again.
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Concerned to see so many ready to second guess government advice on coronavirus.
@uksciencechief
and
@CMO_England
are extraordinarily wise and knowledgeable and we are lucky to have them in post. Thread..
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@Telegraph
I hate these miserable stereotypes! Hard-working millennials at the
@metoffice
are as committed as older staff, including our shift workers who provide our forecasts on nights, weekends and bank holidays and the many who volunteer for our weekend science camps.
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Loved the
@Metoffice
Awards Ceremony yesterday. Celebrating a huge span of achievements linked to our values and making the best of hybrid working with 900 in the building and 400 online all round the UK and the world.
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I must say I am ridiculously excited about this. The
@metoffice
is one of the only organisations to have been at every COP but this will be my first. Providing the science with our
@WMO
and
@IPCC
colleagues to support the negotiations
We are delighted to have partnered with
@WMO
&
@IPCC
to deliver the science pavilion at
@COP26
where we will advise negotiators & delegates on the latest climate science & services. Read more 👇🏼
#MetOfficeCOP26
#TogetherForOurPlanet
#COP26SciencePavilion
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Day two of working from home: find virtual talking tiring on the voice. Wish my best reading glasses weren’t in my work locker. On the upside, commute replaced with a 30 min morning run, and wonderful birds on the feeder. 4 Siskin, nuthatch, redpoll, great spotted woodpecker...
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Part of the point of being a world-leading organisation is to share that expertise, especially if that work saves lives. We’re proud of our international capacity development work at
@metoffice
and the
@RNLI
should indeed be proud of theirs. Off to donate!
In response to the
@MailOnline
&
@thetimes
:we are proud of our international work. Its saves (mostly kids') lives. And we haven't kept it secret - it's in our annual report, on our website and in the media. We spend just 2% of our expenditure on this work:
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Merry Christmas. Enjoying the respite before
#stormbella
. Thanks to
@metoffice
workers on shifts today.
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Sticking grimly with Twitter as no other forum meets my needs so well. But does anyone know a quick way to export the list of accounts I follow so I can track as many of you down on Mastodon or alternative should the lights go out here?
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My view this morning at the start of
@wmo
congress where I am privileged to represent UK. Stark presentation from the Secretary General of how the burden of increasingly extreme weather events falls more heavily on poorer nations and massively on small island states.
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RIP Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. Thank you for a lifetime of unequalled public service.
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Good BBC article on widespread climate records. It’s uncharted but what we expected from human warming combined with a natural El Niño. The last sentence is good. “We are in a new era but we still have time to secure a livable future.” We will keep warming till we reach
#NetZero
Climate records tumble, leaving Earth in uncharted territory - scientists
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A great honour to host HRH
@TheDukeOfYork
at
@metoffice
this morning and share some of our innovative work with him
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Very pleased to see this confirmation of the long term hosting in the uk for our partners in both
@ECMWF
and
@UniofReading
Delighted to confirm that the UK will continue to host the headquarters for
@ECMWF
weather+climate scientists
@UniofReading
helping provide critical weather predictions + forecast data for countries and businesses around the world🇬🇧🌍
👇
#InnovationNation
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Proud to have earned such great support for our weather and climate endeavours from UK government
New deal with
@Microsoft
&
@metoffice
will make the world’s most advanced supercomputer dedicated to climate and weather forecasting.
This will help us reach
#NetZero
and protect the UK from severe weather.
#UnleashingInnovation
#TogetherForOurPlanet
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Climate change hasn’t gone away while we’ve been worrying about COVID
#ShowYourStripes
Today Meteorologists around the world are working together to communicate
#ClimateChange
by using
@ed_hawkins
warming stripes
#MetsUnite
Here Aidan explains the UK stripes
Examples of other countries & regions available here:
#ShowYourStripes
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This is an amazing honour and really reflects the great effort of staff right across the
@metoffice
. Thank you
@bcs
We want to congratulate
@PennyEnd
, Chief Executive of the Met Office, for winning our Society Medal for her outstanding contribution to green technology
Find out more about her incredible work in
#GreenIT
👇
@metofficece
#GreenTech
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Pleased to be
@WMO
Executive Council and to sign the
@metoffice
up as a peer advisor for the Systematic Observations Financing Facility. We will be partnering with other Met Services to move us towards Early Warning for All
@MetOfficeww
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The
@metoffice
is proud to hold the
@WildlifeTrusts
biodiversity benchmark. Enjoyed a walk round with the lead of our volunteer biodiversity working group today, meadow, woodland and ponds all thriving on our headquarters site.
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In the far South West the heavy rain band came through early: we’ve been chasing rainbows on our Exe estuary walk
#loveUKweather
@metoffice
@StormHour
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This makes me very happy
Noticing the lighter mornings and evenings? 🌅
#DidYouKnow
, we gain more daylight this week over any other week in the year! 🌤️
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Delighted to see this: well done Richard.
Met Office scientist recognised for his leadership and services to climate science in New Year Honours
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Had to go into the
@metoffice
one day last week. No celandines or hazel catkins at home yet, but both out in the urban heat island of Exeter. Bee orchid rosettes aplenty. The crocuses might be a bit of a cheat for
#wildflowerhour
but are in for their
#pollinatorpals
@BSBIbotany
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Excellent visit to
@OrdnanceSurvey
HQ today. Many shared data challenges and an updated handshake
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Very pleased to be hosting South West semis of
#cyberfirst
girls’ competition
@metoffice
HQ today.
@NCSC
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I looked back for the
#lastnormalphoto
on my phone and it was this one from hosting the Spectrum event
@metoffice
for LGBTQ civil servants in the South West. Then I learned I’d just returned from a COVID hotspot in Cremona, luckily tested negative.
#straightally
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Been out walking on a snowy Dartmoor much of the weekend. Not much in bloom for
#wildflowerhour
but gorse. But at
@metoffice
HQ last week the bee orchid rosettes were coming on nicely
@BSBIbotany
@wildflower_hour
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Great article by
@metoffice
chief meteorologist Professor Paul Davies on the drivers of the imminent heatwave
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Fully endorse IOP statement here. It’s stereotypes like these which feed the lack of confidence. Extraordinarily uneducated comments.
The IOP is alarmed by comments made by the government’s social mobility commissioner to MPs that more girls decide not to study A-level
#physics
because they “don’t like” hard maths. Read our full statement:
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Thanks to all who are on shift over Christmas to keep our services going
The weather doesn’t stop for Christmas!
We provide support to critical services around the clock, 365 days of the year, with many of our colleagues working shifts over the festive period to keep the lights on.
Stay up to date with the latest forecast:
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Committed to this morning’s jog on the basis of the radar on the
@metoffice
app which promised the squall would be short-lived
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Thanks for the acknowledgment: it’s our data and should credit
@ed_hawkins
for the stripes
Globally we know that our last decade has been the warmest we have had since records began.
And the UK is no exception, what will this mean for our wildlife?
#Winterwatch
via
@metoffice
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Another really extraordinary piece of work, really bridging the gap between our weather and climate forecasting.
A ground breaking
@metoffice
led study proves the longer-term prediction of North Atlantic pressure patterns possible in future, bringing the decadal prediction of northern European winter weather a step closer
👉
@nresearchnews
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We’re working to make our climate data easier to use for a wide range of users.
Have you visited our new climate data portal?
We recently launched it to make climate data more accessible and help improve understanding of the impacts of climate change.
Here you can access climate datasets, enabling more informed mitigation and adaptation decisions. (1/4)
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So delighted to be hosting the first
@UKCivilService
@CSLocalSWest
Spectrum event
@metoffice
headquarters for
@LGBTHM
. Bring your whole self to work
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This is a huge honour and amazing to be in such great company. Thank you
Professor Penelope Endersby,
@metofficece
, is elected a Fellow as an exceptional engineering leader with major contributions to a diverse set of engineering challenges - currently as Chief Executive of the UK's Met Office:
#RAEngFellows
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@Met4CastUK
@metoffice
Thanks. I like the new graphics: we’re trying to convey the temporal as well as location aspects.
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@Greg_Callus
@RoryStewartUK
Generally agree with this. With two adult kids home and no working meals/ dining out I calculate that I’ve gone from 35 meals a week to 84 to cater for
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Walking part of South West coast path today and tickled to find Noss Mayo has a public barometer on display. Still very tricky to forecast exactly when and where sea fret will burn off, but
@metoffice
app did a pretty good job yesterday and today
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We’ve been signalling this big shift in weather type for over a week now and it certainly will be welcome. Over 2/3rds January’s rain already fallen at home and floods over most of England
After a largely mild start to 2024, temperatures are set to drop over the coming few days 📉
You'll certainly need that winter coat as we head towards the weekend 🧥
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Looked at today’s forecast and decided on a visit to
@edenproject
. Under cover for the worst downpour and treated to these mammatus clouds on the back edge of it
#loveUKweather
@metoffice
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Was only in the UK for two days this week, but fortunately the
@metoffice
bee orchids are quick to find as they are marked by 100s of the blue sticks and lovingly mowed round by our ground staff
#orchidchallenge
@BSBIbotany
@wildflower_hour
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It’s been a gruelling week of weather for forecasters, responders and above all those communities in the thick of
#StormBabet
. Thoughts are with all those worst affected. Many thanks to all the staff
@metoffice
@EnvAgency
@ScottishEPA
who’ve worked long hours to keep people safe
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#IAmAPhysicist
. In my career I’ve engaged in research into fuel cells, armour, sonar, radar, artificial intelligence and now weather and climate. And been a trustee of
@PhysicsNews
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Some refurbishment been going on
@metoffice
during lockdown. Great use of these images from the
#liveexeter
posters.
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Great collaboration between us,
@ed_hawkins
and
@UniofReading
with a little help from 16000 citizen scientist friends
Millions of Victorian rainfall observations from the Met Office archive have been digitised, extending the official record back 26 years & uncovering new records
Read our latest blog from Dr Catherine Ross, Met Office Archivist, to learn more about the project with
@UniofReading
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Strong sound messages here. Listen to the science, support each other, wash your hands and don’t look for scapegoats.
Coronavirus: Exeter leaders sign joint letter following horrific hate crimes and attacks in the city.
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@CathNoakes
COP26 has been a fascinating case study. Everybody masked, c95% vaccination rates, 100% LFT every morning or no entry. Tens of thousands of people from all over the globe squashed together indoors for a fortnight and case rates 1/15 of those in Glasgow at large.
#ScienceWorks
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Back in work for a meeting which had to be face to face yesterday and even the coffee machines were admonishing us about social distancing
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Always interested in the innovative use of AI for good. On
#InternationalWomensDay
, check out
@PayGapApp
: some of the numbers are eye-watering. To save the AI the trouble, the
@metoffice
gender pay gap was 7.8% last measured, not perfect, but lower than any I saw in the feed.
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This wonderful picture of the double rainbow which appeared in East Devon just before
#clapforkeyworkers
was taken by neighbour Ella Coombes
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Had the delightful job today of planting an English Oak
@metoffice
HQ as part of the
#queensgreencanopy
@QGCanopy
Just squeezed in the gap in the radar between the back of the big rain band and the subsequent showers.
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Interesting trip to
@metoffice
Cardington yesterday seeing some of the scientists who work on detailed atmospheric observations for everything from fog prediction to assessing the performance of sensors for autonomous vehicles in different weather conditions.
@MetOffice_Sci
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The old and the new. Viscount Camrose
@JonathanCamrose
@SciTechgovuk
Minister for AI and intellectual property, visited
@metoffice
today. The chart from the DDay landings shows how we used to process data. The latest satellite images of the sun show how we predict space weather.
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Delighted that
@metoffice
are being entrusted with this work to enhance warning and preparedness for weather and climate hazards with our community partners in Africa
NEWS: At
#COP26
, the UK announced a package of support to:
✅bring together private sector finance and public sector expertise to scale African climate adaptation projects
✅provide life-saving support in the face of climate shocks
✅protect the most vulnerable
Read more⬇️
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Very proud of the increasingly wide contribution we are making to the pandemic efforts on top of delivering the day job remotely. More to come on this topic.
@UKCivilService
#HereForYou
We’ve been working to support efforts against the COVID-19 pandemic using our scientific and technological capability.
From data to supercomputers find out more about how we are helping in our news release:
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Distressing news from Mozambique where
@metoffice
staff are currently in Maputo working to assist the national Met service. Cyclones Idai and Kenneth have been of unprecedented strength
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@deb25426
@metoffice
1976 looms large in the popular consciousness but it’s been eclipsed in the hottest ten days and years. From memory it still makes it into the driest years as the hot spell was very prolonged.
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Chuffed (appropriate term) to be included on the
@TfL
and
@RAEngNews
Engineering Icons tube map For
#NationalEngineeringDay
as London Bridge. With
@DameWendyDBE
at Mornington Crescent and
@CathNoakes
at Leyton
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A group of
@metoffice
executive just standing under it on Reading station and noting we’d be with it all the way back to Devon. Hail too.
That's one hell of a convergence line of showers/rain - from Truro to St. Albans is about 230 miles!!
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Go team
@metoffice
!
Now for the Best Use of Social Media category. The winner is...
@metoffice
. Many congratulations!
#CIPRexcel
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From our station in Lerwick to our Headquarters in Exeter, teams across
@MetOffice
are helping to keep people safe in the snow and ice. Stay
#WeatherAware
by following our warnings
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. This is a cracking article by
@jburnmurdoch
too. We are not used to taking the risks from extreme heat as seriously in this country as those from storm or cold….but we need to start
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