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The State Meteorological Agency (Spanish: Agencia Estatal de Meteorología, AEMET) is a state agency of the Government of Spain responsible for providing weather forecast, warnings of hazardous weather and assisting the administrations in such matters.
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 .
The BBC's Shipping Forecast page containing the latest forecast when it is released (i.e. 0015, 0505, 1130 and 1725). The Meteorological Office's Shipping Forecast page Archived 11 November 2014 at the Wayback Machine contains the same forecast as the BBC site. The BBC's forecast for inshore waters. Rules on the format of the UK Shipping Forecast
In September 2013, MeteoGroup acquired mminternational (Europe) AG, a major Swiss-German weather company. According to its press release, this expanded MeteoGroup's global operations to 14 countries, making it one of the largest weather companies in the world with almost 400 employees and combined annual turnover of more than €50 million. [12]
The town of Chiva, west of Valencia province, recorded 491mm of rain in just eight hours – more than it has seen over the past 20 months, according to Spain’s weather service.
Because of the Foehn effect, the southern slopes fall inside the rain shadow zone and so Green Spain contrasts starkly with the rest of Spain. The rainfall is generally abundant, exceeding 1,000 mm (39.4 in) and is fairly evenly spread out over the year, with the driest month above 30 mm (1.2 in), which is the minimum criteria for an oceanic ...
Reigate Grammar School Weather Station: A beginners guide to the Spanish Plume! The Conversation, Explainer: how ‘Spanish plume’ set off a heatwave in the UK; UK Weather Forecast: What is a ‘Spanish plume’ Netweather Blog: The Spanish Plume Arrives & An Increasing Risk of Thunderstorms; SkyWarn UK, Forecasting a Spanish Plume (June 2014)
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