Met Office – Weather published this video item, entitled “Recording sunshine and the different types of monsoons” – below is their description.
In this week’s audio only podcast we hear about the intense heat affecting India and Pakistan, how monsoons aren’t just wet and details of the latest Met Office report on global temperature trends. We also hear about a device for measuring sunlight and have a roundup of last week’s UK weather records.
Presenter: Clare Nasir
Editor: Adrian Holloway
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The Meteorological Office, abbreviated as the Met Office is the United Kingdom’s national weather service.
It is an executive agency and trading fund of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy led by CEO Penelope Endersby, who took on the role as Chief Executive in December 2018, is the first woman to do so.
The Met Office makes meteorological predictions across all timescales from weather forecasts to climate change.
Climate is the long-term average of weather, typically averaged over a period of 30 years. More rigorously, it is the mean and variability of meteorological variables over a time spanning from months to millions of years.
India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the second-most populous country, the seventh-largest country by land area, and the most populous democracy in the world. New Delhi is the capital.
It has an exceptionally diverse population, with Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains and other religions speaking over 21 recognised languages.
Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia. It has a population exceeding 212.2 million, including the world’s second-largest Muslim population. It has an area of 881,913 square kilometres (340,509 square miles).
Pakistan has a 1,046-kilometre (650-mile) coastline along the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by India to the east, Afghanistan to the west, Iran to the southwest, and China to the northeast. It is separated narrowly from Tajikistan by Afghanistan’s Wakhan Corridor in the northwest, and also shares a maritime border with Oman.
