The Met Office takes a weekly look at the science behind the UK and global weather headlines.

In this week’s edition, as the Thames Barrier is lowered for the 200th time, we hear about the barrier’s design and the conditions that bring it into operation. We also hear about plans to extend atmospheric weather models further out to space, we have the UK weather outlook for the next few days and last week’s weather observation records

Presenter: Alex Deakin

Editor: Adrian Holloway

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