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30+ years of providing meteorological and oceanographic services from marine and aviation forecasting to optimum ship routing and voyage reconstruction, including command of national global weather and oceanographic forecasting centres.
WMO qualified meteorological forecaster with 14 years sea experience/bridge time. Directed and coordinated strategic planning, governance and contract liaison for planning of UK Hydrographic and UK Met Office defence programmes within the Ministry of Defence budget.
Co-authored by Kyle Gollegly RMet, FRMetS who is a Senior Marine Router on our Atlantic Orcas watch. The Indian monsoon can be broken down into two seasons: the drier Northeast monsoon which encompasses the winter months, and the wetter Southwest monsoon during the summer months. The transition periods between these seasons (typically mid-late Spring and …
Can a Tropical Cyclone kickstart the Monsoon?
The extent of Baltic Sea ice is nearing climatological norms following a period of several years when it has been well below normal levels.
Tropical Cyclone Faraji in the southern Indian Ocean earned the title of the first Category 5 Tropical Storm for the year 2021.
The relationship between climatology, chaos theory and extended range forecasting.
Severe (Category 5) Tropical Cyclone YASA could ruin Christmas for many in Fiji. At 170600UTC the system was some 99nm NNE of Suva, Vili Levu island moving SE at 12 knots crossing the western end of Vanua Levu Island with winds of 130 knots and gusts to 160 knots. Numerical guidance is good over the …
A most unwelcome Christmas visitor.
2020 Atlantic season end of term report – did we get taken to school?
As the Atlantic hurricane season normally runs 1 June to 30 November, there is still time to set an even higher record.
A summary of tropical storm, hurricane and cyclone activity in different ocean regions from FleetWeather.
Our atmosphere and oceans are chaotic systems in continual motion with multiple chains of cause and effect whereby a small cause can eventually be amplified to greater and greater effects.
The 2020 Atlantic hurricane season is now just 2 storms away (Epsilon and Zeta) from setting a new all time record of 28 tropical storms and use Eta, the 7th Greek letter for the first time ever.