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Many types of weather can be experienced in a single day. The climate in the United Kingdom is defined as a humid temperate oceanic climate, or Cfb on the Köppen climate classification system, a classification it shares with most of north-west Europe. [1] Regional climates are influenced by the Atlantic Ocean and latitude.
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 ...
20 March 1986. Shetland holds the unofficial British record for wind speed. A gust of 197 mph (317 km/h) was reported on 1 January 1992. An earlier gust in 1962 was recorded at 177 mph (285 km/h), both at RAF Saxa Vord. [ 12] However, it is expected that higher gusts than those reported would have been achieved as during both storms the ...
BBC News provides television journalism to BBC network bulletins (on BBC One and BBC Two) and programmes as well as the BBC News Channel available around the world and in the United Kingdom. BBC News runs BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC World Service as part of its rolling news coverage, journalists and presenters also contribute to podcasts produced by BBC News for BBC Radio 4 , as well as solely ...
The Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009 is an Act passed by the Scottish Parliament. [5] The Act includes an emissions target, set for the year 2050, for a reduction of at least 80% from the baseline year, 1990. [5] The Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009 was amended by the Climate Change (Emissions Reduction Targets) (Scotland) Act 2019, [6 ...
End date. 27 August 1976 [ 1] Peak temp. 35.9 °C (96.6 °F), recorded at Cheltenham, Gloucestershire on 3 July 1976. A period of unusually hot summer weather occurred in the British Isles during the summer of 1976. At the same time, there was a severe drought on the islands of Great Britain and Ireland. [ 2][ 3] It was one of the driest ...
In 1993 Reid took a position at the UK Met Office working in satellite research. [2] [3] From 1994 to 2009 she worked as a weather presenter for BBC Scotland, presenting on Reporting Scotland . She became BBC Scotland's senior weather forecaster, and gave her final broadcast for Reporting Scotland on 22 December 2009.
1922 English cricket season. Football: England | Scotland. 1922 in British radio. Events from the year 1922 in the United Kingdom . Irish affairs occupied an important place in politics throughout this year. 1922 saw the establishment of the Irish Free State in the south and west of the island.