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The Shipping Forecast has been broadcast on BBC longwave radio services so the signal can be received clearly at sea all around the British Isles, regardless of time of day or radio conditions. The forecast was broadcast on the BBC National Programme until September 1939, and then after the Second World War on the BBC Light Programme (later BBC ...
The first BBC weather forecast was a shipping forecast, broadcast on the radio on behalf of the Met Office on 14 November 1922, and the first daily weather forecast was broadcast on 26 March 1923. In 1936, the BBC experimented with the world's first televised weather maps , brought into practice in 1949 after World War II .
BBC national and regional weather forecasters, current, former and retired. Pages in category "BBC weather forecasters" The following 63 pages are in this category, out of 63 total.
An extreme weather warning was issued for southern areas for overnight snowfall which could bring accumulations from 25 to 40 centimeters (9.8 to 15.7 in). [28] BBC Weather and the Met Office also warned that temperatures in the Highlands of Scotland could drop to −20 °C (−4 °F) later in the week.
Mount Copeland, British Columbia: 1971–1972 Greatest Snowfall in one day: 145 cm (57 in) [5] Tahtsa Lake, British ... Harrow 264 1989-7 Quebec Barrage des Quinze ...
On 19 July, the Met Office issued its first ever extreme heat warning for parts of the UK. [1] [2] Temperatures soared across the United Kingdom over a weekend which saw all four nations record the hottest day of the year. [3] [4] On 17 July, temperatures reached 31.2 °C (88.2 °F) in County Down, Northern Ireland. [5]
1 day Yosef Ishran: 14 2001 Unnamed American 26-year-old woman: 26 United States On May 11, 2001, serial rapist-kidnapper John Jamelske offered a ride home to a 26-year-old white woman walking in downtown Syracuse while under the influence of LSD, which the woman accepted due to the poor weather. Jamelske took her back to his bunker, where he ...
The UK's first nuclear bomb. 5 January – Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrives in the United States for an official visit and talks with President Harry S. Truman. [2]10 January – An Aer Lingus Douglas DC-3 aircraft on a London–Dublin flight crashes in Wales due to vertical draft in the mountains of Snowdonia, killing twenty passengers and the three crew.