Met Office

In which penguins mix with Jack Tweed, the RMT and the Met Office. There’s a joke in there somewhere.

London has become the latest area of Britain to succumb to the big freeze. Predictably, hardly anyone was ready for it so planes, trains and automobiles have all been affected with Gatwick Airport closed, trains cancelled and the M25 gridlocked. Last night, 100 unlucky passengers …

Image by Tanya N from the Londonist Flickr pool It’s going to be a warm Marathon – the Met Office is predicting temperatures of around 20°C, roughly the same as the ‘heatwave’ race of 2007 that caused 73 participants to land in hospital. If you’re …

Image by James.D. from the Londonist Flickr pool No, no no no. We’ve only just stopped having flashbacks from January’s snow and there’s more on the way? The Met Office have issued warnings of heavy snow for London and the South East for tomorrow and …

Image / Martin Deutsch Those soothsayers of the squall at the Met Office have been named as the “official weather supplier” for the 2012 Olympics. According to a press release, the Office will “[provide] expertise, forecasts and data” leading up to and during the Games, …

In a curious reversal of the plans for Battersea, an early twentieth century house in Muswell Hill has been converted into an eco power station. The nondescript 1930s property on Twyford Avenue, N10, has been tricked out with solar panels by the owners, and during …

Here’s what we’ve learned while you’ve been battening down your hatches and bringing the cattle in: In the weekend crime round-up…police were rather cross to be shot at on Friday, while there was an unseemly brawl outside Claire’s Accessories (we blame the pink feather boas). …

And we’re not just talking about the hills of the Chankly Bore. Londoners are being advised to batten down the hatches on Monday morning, when a rather ferocious weather front is predicted to romp across the UK. The Met Office has gotten all serious on …

This Week In London’s History Monday – 6th August 1937: Barbara Windsor is born in Shoreditch in central London. She would achieve fame as an actress, notably as a ‘saucy strumpet’ in the Carry On films of the 60s and 70s and later as a …

Yeah we know this week is verging on the unbearable, you don’t need us to tell you that, what we’re talking about here is the temperature trends over the past decade. According to figures released by the Met Office, in May 1996 the average daily …