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1 month ago | 
yourweather.co.uk | Kerry Taylor-Smith
Seals and other marine animals spend long periods underwater, but what stops them from drowning? New research sheds light on a unique capability shared by breath-hold divers. Many species of mammals, reptiles and birds breath-hold dive, meaning they hold their breath and stay underwater for long periods, yet they don’t drown.
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1 month ago | 
yourweather.co.uk | Kerry Taylor-Smith
Following a successful trial, the Met Office will continue to use aircraft-generated data to improve their weather forecasting models. The accuracy of weather forecasting models from The Met Office has been improved by incorporating data received from thousands of aircraft every day.
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2 months ago | 
yourweather.co.uk | Kerry Taylor-Smith
Asteroseismology could offer new insight into the properties of neutron stars and nuclear matter, with important implications for physics and astronomy, health, security and energy. Starquakes are like earthquakes, only in neutron stars. Studying them promises to transform scientists’ understanding of the properties of neutron stars and nuclear matter.
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Jan 4, 2025 | 
yourweather.co.uk | Kerry Taylor-Smith
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe made history after surviving its record-breaking closest approach to the solar surface on 24th December 2024. NASA’s Parker Solar Probe successfully ‘touched’ the solar atmosphere on Christmas Eve, passing just 3.8 million miles above the surface of the Sun at 430,000 miles per hour – faster than any man-made object has ever travelled.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
yourweather.co.uk | Clarissa Wright
Space tourism grows as a market with a couple companies offering to take paying customers to space. The question arises - is this good or bad? Private companies have been offering chances to go to space, from a "quick" suborbit to staying over on the International Space Station (ISS). There is now a growing debate, as to whether this is really a good or bad thing. Perhaps, it is not all black and white, just as space itself is not all black and white.
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Nov 2, 2024 | 
yourweather.co.uk | Kerry Taylor-Smith
Met Office research shows 43% of people in the UK have been caught out unexpectedly by severe weather over the past year. Heavy rain stopped 36% of people from getting to work on time or going out, while one in five was affected by issues with public transport, slipping on ice, and power cuts. The survey coincides with the launch of the Met Office’s #WeatherReady winter campaign to help people stay prepared for any weather. Are you ready for winter?
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
yourweather.co.uk | Kerry Taylor-Smith
Climate change is affecting tea-growing across the world, but the Tea-CUP project aims to provide useful climate information to help tea-farmers adapt to changing weather conditions. Tea is the second most consumed drink in the world, second only to water. Around 43% of global tea production occurs in China, with important tea-growing regions also found in South America, Africa, and Asia – even in the UK and Europe.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
yourweather.co.uk | Nazaneen Ghaffar
A rapidly intensifying low-pressure system, known as a "weather bomb," is set to bring the strongest winds of the season to the UK this weekend. With weather warnings in place, Scotland, Northern Ireland, northern England and northwest Wales are expected to be hardest hit. What Is a Weather Bomb? A "weather bomb" refers to an explosive deepening of a low-pressure system, where the central pressure drops by at least 24 millibars in 24 hours, a process known as explosive cyclogenesis.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
yourweather.co.uk | Clarissa Wright
A geologist and his team have found lead in ice in one of the most regions of the world. Find out why and where. Geologist Franco Marcantonio with his team examined the origin of lead contamination found in a Tibetan glacier. They concluded that humans brought the pollutant to the area, including other remote regions of the world. The Tibetan Plateau is a large highland expanse in Tibet - an autonomous region of China in Asia.
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Oct 5, 2024 | 
yourweather.co.uk | Kerry Taylor-Smith
The National Oceanography Centre are trialling a new type of fuel on two of their research ships in a bid to reduce their carbon footprint. Fossil-free marine diesel is being used to fuel the Royal Research Ships (RRS) James Cook and Discovery as part of a trial by the UK’s National Oceanography Centre (NOC).