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Today, on National STEM Day, the Met Office has launched a partnership with Google Arts & Culture to showcase a new online hub exploring the history and role of meteorology and of the Met Office. The hub is a collection of highlights from the Met Office and the National Meteorological Library and Archive, brought to life through digital stories inviting you to learn about the science, history and impact of meteorology.
Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to revolutionise weather forecasting. Last week, researchers from the Alan Turing Institute and the Met Office announced a new partnership which will see our organisations working together to develop AI models that will enable improved forecasting in situations like extreme weather events, helping to save lives and protect critical national infrastructure.
As the UK’s national meteorological service, the Met Office has a track record of using advanced technology to help predict the weather, using information from satellites as well as observational data from weather stations on Earth to run simulations on a supercomputer that generate forecasts used by millions of people around the world.
It is hoped that the new collaboration will accelerate work to deploy machine learning technology alongside traditional techniques to improve the forecasting of some extreme weather events, such as exceptional rainfall or impactful thunderstorms, with even greater accuracy, helping communities to increase their resilience.
Last week Claire Nasir spoke with Professor Kirstine Dale, Met Office Chief AI Officer and Turing Fellow about the groundbreaking new partnership.
 Our latest WeatherSnap Climate Special was published last week. With a focus on Food Security, host Doug McNeall is joined by Dr Pete Falloon, who leads the Met Office Hadley Centre Climate Programme’s Climate Service for Defra on Food, Farming and Natural Environment.
Alongside guests from the Soil Association and ADAS, they discuss how growers and farmers can create a resilient Agrisystem that satisfies net zero and look at how regenerative farming can solve the climate crisis.
 ASPECT researchers have launched a survey to analyse how climate information helps European organisations prepare for a changing climate.
Climate change and variability poses significant risks to a variety of European sectors, organisations and society as a whole. The Horizon Europe funded project ASPECT, involving the Met Office, is trying to improve the usability of climate prediction information for risk management and adaptation decision making.
For this purpose, ASPECT researchers are surveying climate sensitive sectors/organisations in Europe to inform climate prediction research and operations in Europe, improving the usability of information. Provision of usable climate information has the potential to help organisations and sectors, and ultimately make Europe more resilient to climate variability and change.
The survey takes approximately 15 minutes to complete and is aimed at a wide range of professionals within organisations whose activities are weather- or climate-sensitive and have either used or could potentially use climate information. We are interested in hearing from organisations of all sizes and different sectors of society.
The survey is available in multiple languages and will remain open until 17 November. If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact us at hello.aspect@bsc.es.
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