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  1. How meteorologists helped recreate one of history’s most important weather forecasts
    By Nicola Davis Science correspondent

    Experts helped guide weather scenes in Pressure – a film depicting dramatic buildup to 1944’s D-day landings

    theguardian.com/science/2026/s

    #Meteorology #Film #MetOffice #Secondworldwar #Dday #Culture #AndrewScott #UKnews #Science #TheGuardian #NicolaDavisSciencecorrespondent

  2. #UK #weather: Amber heat health alerts issued across #England as fifth summer #heatwave on way
    #MetOffice meteorologist Tom Morgan said Thursday "looks the most likely hottest day of the week", with a "small chance it could get even higher than [36C]".
    It comes after the UK equalled the record number of days with #temperatures above #30C across the country this year.
    news.sky.com/story/uk-record-f
    #climate #climatechange #globalheating #globalwarming

  3. Amy, Violet and Wubbo: Is your name on this year’s storm list?

    The new list of storm names for the 2025 to 2026 North Atlantic season has just been released by weather experts at the Met Office, Met Éireann and the Dutch national weather forecasting service, KNMI.

    This year’s is made up entirely of suggestions submitted by the public, with around 50,000 names put forth for consideration.

    mediafaro.org/article/20250901

    #Weather #Winter #Meteorology #Storm #Atlantic #MetOffice #MetÉireann #KNMI

  4. Depending on who you trust, according to Apple Weather it's currently -7°C in #Glasgow or -2°C according to MetOffice. Though wind-chill appears to be -6°C so maybe Apple just shows wind chill by default and has no measured temperature?!

    #weather #AppleWeather #MetOffice