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London’s City Hall has said it is “monitoring the weather” ahead of the city’s New Year’s Eve celebrations after some of Edinburgh’s Hogmanay festivities were cancelled due to bad weather.
Edinburgh’s Hogmanay celebrations have been cancelled because of “extreme weather”. Outdoor events planned for the city’s New Year celebrations on Monday and Tuesday, including the street ...
Met Office weather warnings for 1 January 2025 (Met Office) South East England. In the South East, a yellow weather warning for wind is in place on New Year’s Day. Inland gusts are expected to ...
The Shipping Forecast was established by Vice-Admiral Robert FitzRoy, the first professional weather forecaster, captain of HMS Beagle and founder of the Met Office. [2] In October 1859, the steam clipper Royal Charter was wrecked in a strong storm off Anglesey ; 450 people lost their lives.
The Met Office issues a yellow severe weather warning for wintry showers and high winds ahead of the arrival of Storm Kathleen, expected to reach the UK on 6 April. [ 304 ] 5 April – John Tinniswood , a great-grandfather from Merseyside, officially becomes the world's oldest living man at the age of 111 years and 283 days.
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 map filled the ...
Several weather warnings have been issued across the UK as fresh ice and 75mph winds are set to hit the country.. The Met Office has put in place two yellow weather alerts in parts of the country ...
The Met Office, until November 2000 officially the Meteorological Office, [2] is the United Kingdom's national weather and climate service. It is an executive agency and trading fund of the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology and is led by CEO [3] Penelope Endersby, who took on the role as Chief Executive in December 2018 and is the first woman to do so. [4]