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February 28, 2024

Vineyard Frost Protection Project

We are taking part in an innovative frost forecasting and management project which has secured over £300,000 in funding from both Innovate UK and the Department of Food and Rural Affairs (Defra). Working alongside TerraPrima, Agri-Epi Centre, Plumpton College, Vinescapes, Vinewatch and WineGB, the project is called ‘Smarter Forecasting, Communication and Management of Frost Risk in Vineyards’.

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March 27, 2024

UEA Meteorology Field Course

WeatherQuest has always had very strong links to the University of East Anglia and the School of Environmental Sciences (Env). Not only are we located on campus, many of our past and present employees are Env graduates and some are current members of the faculty, a lecturer and researcher.

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April 9, 2024

The EGU General Assembly

Later this April one of our Research Meteorologists, Dr Dan Smith, will be heading to Vienna, Austria, to take part in the European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly conference.

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Climate

July 24, 2024

July and The Jet Stream

Being the height of summer, July is normally one of the driest and warmest months of the year. However, the British summer is known for being extremely changeable, and one of the main drivers for this is the Jet Stream.

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Climate,

August 28, 2024

ENSO and Winter: How does it impact us?

The El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is one of the world’s most dominant climatological oscillations and is our planet’s single largest source of natural year-to-year variability. As we close out Summer, ENSO has returned from an El Niño to neutral and is very likely to swing into its other extreme phase, a La Niña, as we head into Autumn. Having far-reaching impacts across the globe, how does this oscillation of sea surface temperatures over the Pacific impact the UK, and what could this mean for our weather over the coming autumn and winter?

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