The Met Office has launched WOW Schools, a project to help inspire and educate a new generation of scientists. WOW Schools will provide ten lucky schools with an automatic weather station and educational resources for the classroom. Schools teaching 7 to 11 year olds, from all corners of the UK, are invited to enter a…

One of our associated teachers has put together an excellent summary of the El Nino Southern Oscillation and how it affects the rest of the world at http://rgsweather.com/2015/11/01/el-nino-how-does-it-impact-uk-winter-weather/. We’ve also got a list of other useful links and there have been some lovely images recently of the Atacama desert in bloom as a result of…

Some of the messages we have received about the Young People’s Special Edition of Weather: “Special Edition of Weather, young people in meteorology, was great – well done and hit all the right buttons!“ Good piece on the forever-exciting feeling of launching a weather balloon by @RGSweather in the new @RMetS Young People’s edition. “Just…