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The first BBC weather forecast was a shipping forecast, broadcast on the radio on behalf of the Met Office on 14 November 1922, and the first daily weather forecast was broadcast on 26 March 1923. In 1936, the BBC experimented with the world's first televised weather maps, brought into practice in 1949 after World War II. The map filled the ...
March 12— Indonesia —A power failure affected 13 million people in South Sumatra and Lampung. [ 75] July 13— Azerbaijan — Baku and nearly the entirety of the country experienced a blackout due to unknown causes. [ 76] April 30—United States—Nearly all of JEA 's 355,000 customers in Jacksonville, Florida, lost power.
The 1985 North America cold wave[ 1] was a meteorological event which occurred in January, 1985, as a result of the shifting of the polar vortex farther south than is normally seen. [ 1] Blocked from its normal movement, polar air from the north pushed into nearly every section of the central and eastern half of the United States and Canada ...
The January–March 2014 North American cold wave was an extreme weather event that extended through the late winter months of the 2013–2014 winter season, and was also part of an unusually cold winter affecting parts of Canada and parts of the north-central and northeastern United States. [5] The event occurred in early 2014 and was caused ...
The winter of 2009–2010 in Europe was unusually cold. Globally, unusual weather patterns brought cold, moist air from the north. Weather systems were undergoing cyclogenesis from North American storms moving across the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and saw many parts of Europe experiencing heavy snowfall and record-low temperatures.
Great Britain and Ireland; much of continental Europe. Anticyclone Hartmut (dubbed the Beast from the East ( Irish: An Torathar ón Oirthear) [ 5][ 6][ 7]) was a storm that began on 22 February 2018, and brought a cold wave to Great Britain and Ireland. Anticyclone Hartmut also brought widespread unusually low temperatures and heavy snowfall to ...
Rich worked as a newsreader for a short time and was then a reporter for local radio stations in Bristol and Manchester. He became a weather presenter for BBC 's Midlands Today in Birmingham in 2009, providing daily weather forecasts and presenting regional TV news bulletins. He also produced in-depth features on weather-related subjects such ...
The 1995 British Isles heatwave occurred between late July and late August. It was part of one of the warmest summers recorded in the UK, and one of the warmest Augusts ever recorded in many locations around the UK, as well as being one of the driest summers ever recorded in the UK; many weather stations recorded the summer of 1995 as drier than, or comparable with, the summer of 1976.