How do solar panels influence UK power prices? Will Tesla’s batteries change this?
Over the last 4 years, the increase in solar power capacity in the UK has been considerable, going from 0.1GW in March 2011 to 6.6GW by April 2015. (See UK government solar statistics.) Feed in tariffs (FiT) guarantee the income paid to homeowners for the production of this electricity – and this makes it economically […]
Read More »Making haylage while the sun shines
What is haylage? Traditionally, horses were fed hay as a supplementary feed. Hay is grass which is cut, dried to a dry matter content of 85-90% then baled and used as a feed stuff for horses and livestock. Given the nature of the UK summer weather (frequent rain showers), and the sensitivity of horses to […]
Read More »Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society
Dr Isla Finney is now a Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society (FRMetS)!
Read More »Weather forecast improvements: the science behind the forecasts
There are two main global numerical weather prediction (NWP) models that are used by most meteorologists: ECMWF (the European model) and GFS (the American model). Every year ECMWF have a meeting for meteorologists who use their model data, for exchanging ideas and experiences on the use of ECMWF data. I was there again last week, […]
Read More »Californian wine harvests: on the lookout for Modoki flavouring of the emerging El Nino
Spring showers bring little relief Spring showers provided temporary relief to the drought in California and enabled the Department of Water Resources to increase the allocation of State Water Project water for agricultural users from zero to 5% of amounts requested on April 18th (compared to 57.5% average over the last 4 years). But it […]
Read More »Saharan dust in the UK prompts air quality concerns
The current weather pattern has wind blowing from the south-east into the UK which has put Saharan dust into the air in the UK. This wind pattern is not normal, and as well as prompting an April fool’s report of moon dust raining on the UK there are also more serious concerns over air quality. The dust […]
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