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Get the London, England local weather forecast by the hour and the next 10 days.
It also has world weather, UK outlook, and weather news. In October 2024 a technical fault affecting the supplying of data from DTN caused the BBC Weather website and app to incorrectly forecast wind speeds of over 15,000 mph (24,000 km/h) and air temperatures exceeding 400 °C (750 °F).
From October 1925, it has been broadcast by the BBC. [4] Today, although most ships have onboard technology to provide the Forecast's information, they still use it to check their data. [5] On Friday 30 May 2014, for the first time in more than 90 years, BBC Radio 4 failed to broadcast the Shipping Forecast at 0520.
Sara Louise Blizzard (born 17 August 1970 in Coventry, Warwickshire) is a weather presenter [1] for BBC Weather based at the Nottingham Weather Hub for the corporation. She regularly presents the weather forecasts for East Midlands Today, Midlands Today and BBC North West Tonight (the three programmes served by the Nottingham hub).
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]
On his return, King was assigned to BBC Weather in August 2008, [2] presenting across the entire BBC News output, as well as on BBC World. He still undertakes assignments for the RAF, and was deployed to Camp Bastion, Afghanistan in 2010. King's hobbies include snowboarding and wakeboarding.
He previously forecast on the BBC News at Ten, the BBC News at Six and the BBC News at One. [2] Avery took time out from presenting between September 2004 and July 2005 to take part in the Global Challenge 2004-2005 yacht race. [2] [3] In October 2010 it was announced that Avery would no longer be presenting BBC weather forecasts. [4]
The UK experienced an unusually wet July even as a historic heatwave swept parts of Europe and the world hits back-to-back record-breaking temperatures this year driven by the man-made climate crisis.