Royal Meteorological Society

Trace how changes in the stratosphere’s circulation can influence surface weather several weeks later, and why that signal doesn’t always translate into better forecasts. Dr Xiaocen Shen unpacks the physical links behind winter weather patterns in a free online Zoom masterclass.

Explore how tiny atmospheric particles shape clouds, air quality and climate, and why they remain a major uncertainty in human-caused climate change. Laura Wilcox of the University of Reading examines their role in climate models and regional extremes in a virtual Zoom session.

Dr Robert Lee of the University of Reading shows how forecasting centres build ensemble forecasts that turn atmospheric chaos into useful predictions. Explore why forecasts change, how ensembles flag possible extreme events, and how AI weather models are reshaping subseasonal forecasting.

Explore how high-impact weather creates risks for insurance and society in a seminar led by University of Exeter Research Fellow Dr Matthew Priestley. See how open data and large forecast ensembles help estimate extreme-event frequency and severity, including scenarios beyond the historical record.

Hear directly from the team building UK flood and drought monitoring infrastructure in this one-hour online event. Explore its open-access digital platform, scientific priorities and measurements, plus research across the Chess, Upper Severn and Upper Tweed catchments.

Compare four tree-ring-based reconstructions of East Anglia and Southern England to see how reliably they capture drought. Explore how they extend the climate record beyond instrument measurements, revealing long-term patterns in drought frequency, severity and duration - and whether they reproduce observed instrumental climate behaviour.

Hear two meteorologists - one at the Met Office and one in industry - share how they reached weather and climate forecasting roles. Get an honest look at operational meteorology and ask your questions in this free online conversation.

A Met Office scientist unpacks how snow is observed, shapes weather and feeds into forecasting models in this one-hour talk. Then explore what Scotland’s snowfall trends could mean for future events like the Beast from the East, with in-person and virtual attendance available.

Hear Met Office Hadley Centre’s George Jordan unpack experiments with Aurora, an atmospheric machine-learning model, and whether AI weather prediction can work on climate timescales. Compare why climate modelling poses a different challenge, at a free in-person event at the University of Birmingham.