Hurricane Flossie is now a Category 2 off the Pacific coast of Mexico
The National Hurricane Center said Flossie had maximum sustained winds at 100 mph (155 kph) and that rain was falling over parts of coastal Mexico. The hurricane was centered 150 miles (245 kilometers) southwest of Manzanillo, Mexico.
Flossie was moving to the northwest at 10 mph (17 kph) and was expected to continue that motion over the next few days. The system should move away from southwestern Mexico by Tuesday night, forecasters said.
The hurricane was forecast to continue strengthening and could be a major hurricane as soon as Tuesday night or Wednesday morning. A major hurricane is classified as Category 3 or higher, with maximum sustained winds of at least 111 mph (180 kph).
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The Independent
2 hours ago
- The Independent
UK could face another heatwave as temperatures set to climb once again
The UK could face another heatwave in the next two weeks, as temperatures start to climb towards the 30s once again. After a cooler few days, temperatures are expected to increase from the second half of next week and keep climbing towards the middle of July, according to the Met Office. 'Through the second half of next week and especially the weekend, there are signs that temperatures will begin to trend up, becoming warm or very warm once again,' the forecaster said. 'Especially across southern parts of the UK, but perhaps more widely as we head toward the middle of July.' While longer-term forecasters like WX Charts suggest a second spell of hot weather is expected to start on 12 July, with temperatures staying in the 30s until 18 July, the Met Office warned it is too soon to provide predictions of exact temperatures. It comes after England faced its hottest June on record, and the UK saw its second-hottest June. A high of 34.7C was recorded in St James's Park in central London on Tuesday afternoon, beating the previous warmest day of the year on 21 June, where a scorching 33.2C was recorded in Charlwood, Surrey. The hot weather marks the second heatwave for parts of the UK within the last month, with scientists warning the searing temperatures earlier in June were made 100 times more likely because of human-caused climate change. Amber heat health alerts were issued by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) across parts of the country from 27 June until 2 July. The alerts are the second highest, behind red and indicate possible impacts on health and social services. The UKHSA's weather health alert system provides early warning to the health and social care sector when adverse temperatures are likely to impact the health and well-being of the population. By Wednesday, the heat subsided and the Met Office issued a yellow weather warning for thunderstorms in north-east England and parts of Scotland. Another warning was then put in place for the weekend, with severe rain in parts of Scotland. The rest of the week saw a split in weather elsewhere, with cool sunshine and frequent blustery showers across the North and mostly dry with warm spells of sunshine in the South. A study by Met Office scientists revealed that the chance of the UK exceeding 40C is now 20 times more likely than it was in 1960s. The UK first recorded temperatures above 40C in July 2022, as Coningsby in Lincolnshire reached 40.3C in continental Europe's hottest summer. The increasingly extreme weather patterns have already caused wildfires, disruptions to power and transport and increased mortality, the Met Office said. 'Because our climate continues to warm, we can expect the chance to keep rising. We estimate a 50-50 chance of seeing a 40C day again in the next 12 years,' Dr Gillian Kay, senior scientist at the Met Office said. 'We also found that temperatures several degrees higher than we saw in July 2022 are possible in today's climate.'
BBC News
8 hours ago
- BBC News
The Shipping Forecast celebrates 100 years as a national institution on the BBC
The shipping forecast is the ultimate safety guide for anyone using the seas around the UK and Ireland but in the 100 years since it started it has also won an unrivalled place in the nation's 4 2025 marks the centenary of its first BBC broadcast. In that time it has prevented the loss of countless lives at those decades it has also developed a cult following, lulling landlubbers to sleep, and inspiring music, poetry, art and writing. The rhythm and cadence of the report is unique, delivering a forecast for each of the 31 marine areas off our shores, loved by seadogs and landlubbers alike. 'Attention all shipping...' These days there are a multitude of ways for the marine and fishing industries to get their weather reports. However, the shipping forecast, issued by the Met Office, external on behalf of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency, external, means that those who can't access private reports can still get the information they need. A significant number of imports get to the UK via the sea. With climate change and an increasing number of extreme weather events, it's arguable that the shipping forecast is more important than ever. Having a permanent trusted source of information is also vital for our national security because it reduces any potential impact of someone deliberately issuing misleading reports. 'Warnings of gales...' The forecast actually began as a concept long before radio existed, established in response to a tragic storm in the Irish Sea in 1859, when 133 ships went down and more than 800 people drowned. At the time Vice Admiral Robert Fitzroy was head of the newly formed UK Meteorology Office set up by the Board of Trade. By 1861 his staff had set up gale warnings which were issued using the electronic January 1924 Morse code was used to transmit the first 'weather shipping' bulletin by the UK Air Ministry on its own radio 18 months later in July 1925 the BBC took over the shipping forecast as part of its public service remit. It has been broadcast every day since then apart from during the Second World War when it was deemed it could give a critical advantage to the enemy, along with our weather forecasts in general. The importance the weather predictions played during that time cannot be underestimated especially in planning top-secret missions such as the D-Day invasion. 'Here's the shopping forecast!' Until very recently BBC Weather was part of the team along with the continuity announcers, which delivered the live bulletins - affectionately know as the 'Ships' - on Radio 4. It has professional and sentimental meaning to the Weather Centre, including forecaster Simon King, who inadvertently referred to it on air as 'the shopping forecast'."After spending so much time learning about the shipping areas and the pronunciation of things like North Utsire and South Utsire the first time I delivered the shipping forecast I said 'Good morning and now the shopping, I mean shipping forecast'," he remembers. "And my colleagues have never let me forget."Reading the forecast live is quite a skill as it has to hit nine and a half minutes precisely despite the script varying in length and it's full of tricky names and a series of disjointed words and phrases .Presenter Chris Fawkes said it was a challenge he relished. His colleague Matt Taylor used to make sure he hit the right moment by taking an alarm into the studio with day though he forgot to put it on silent. "Just as I was coming to the end it went off, so I just grabbed, threw it under the table and had to suffer the huge embarrassment straight afterwards," he Bett and Louise Lear have both found reading the Ships much trickier when you're not feeling a hundred percent."My biggest worry is that I'm going to sneeze," said Darren. "Now there is a cough button that you can press if you got a cold or something like that but there isn't a big enough sneeze button."But Louise Lear found another studio trick to get her through."One morning when I was absolutely full of cold, I couldn't stop my nose from running or from sneezing, so I had to very carefully just dip the fader on the microphone so I could take a cheeky sniff or a cough, and then raise it back up, and guess what, nobody knew," she even the best laid plans went awry for Tomasz Schafernaker one morning when he'd been asked at read the forecast at short notice and tried to make himself feel more awake by drinking a bit too much caffeine just before he went on air."In the middle of my broadcast all the tea and coffee came back up and I was just sick," he remembered. "But of course I quietly managed to step aside and some else in the studio seamlessly picked up the forecast from where I'd left off." 'Viking, North Utsire, South Utsire...' The Shipping Forecast always follows the same clockwise route around the UK and Ireland's waters starting at Viking, which gets its name from its location between Scotland and Norway. The areas are generally all named after local geographical features like sandbanks and rivers, however in 2002, Finisterre was renamed Fitzroy in tribute to the creator of the forecast. While BBC presenters have historically delivered it, occasionally celebrities have also got in on the act including writer Alan Bennett, Stephen Fry and the late Labour politician John Prescott. Poets Carol Ann Duffy, Seamus Heaney and Roger McGough have all found inspiration in 'The Ships' and it's been sampled by musicians including Radiohead, The Prodigy and Blur. 'Veering north-westerly, 5 or 6 later...' For those in the know - especially those who need to know - the lyrical content of the shipping forecast is vital just love it for it's melodic structure letting the words wash over them as they drift or sleep or try to catch a few more minutes in bed first thing in the morning. As well as gale and storm warnings, the forecast details visibility, pressure system changes, wind direction and the general state of the sea such as smooth or rough. Words like veering and backing are staples, along with phrases along the lines of 'becoming cyclonic' and 'good, occasionally poor'.Once you get into the swing of it it's not difficult to follow and the Met Office provides a glossary of terms, external to the last 100 years the forecast has undergone significant changes to keep up to date with new technology both in how the information is gathered and how it's shared. This work is ongoing and the Met Office is currently working with partners to assess how advance satellite data and AI models (among other things), could impact the service, and is looking at new ways to share the information including data being integrated on ships' display equipment. It is also backing the 10,000 Ships for the Ocean, external initiative, launched in June at the United Nations Ocean Conference, which aims to vastly increase the number of vessels equipped for ocean and weather can learn more about the history of the shipping forecast on the BBC on the Radio 4 and the Royal Museums Greenwich websites, external.
The Guardian
11 hours ago
- The Guardian
Shock and spore: ‘bomb cyclone' delivers bang for buck as ABC banks on mushroom drama
The extreme weather in New South Wales this week generated some dramatic headlines. 'NSW about to get absolutely obliterated' from is a personal favourite – and pretty much summed up the tone of much of the coverage. One term popped up repeatedly: bomb cyclone. 'Urgent warning issued about 'bomb cyclone',' the Daily Mail said. We were, according to 'in the path of a 'bomb cyclone'. A bomb and a cyclone in one term is scary stuff, but was it accurate? The Australian's night editor, David Tanner, noticed what he called the 'explosive terminology', writing: 'In the age of weather dramatisation, nothing goes off quite like a 'bomb cyclone'.' The Bureau of Meteorology, also known (confusingly) as BoM, had not referred to the coming storm as a bomb cyclone, so where did it come from? The first use of the term for this low-pressure system was last Friday afternoon on ABC Radio Newcastle's Drive program, according to the media monitoring company Streem. The ABC's NSW weather presenter and meteorologist, Tom Saunders, raised the term during a discussion of his word of the week: bombogenesis. As he explained in an online story: 'When a low-pressure system transforms from non-existence to a formidable storm just a day later, meteorologists label it a 'bomb cyclone', or a system that has experienced 'bombogenesis'. 'Bomb cyclone' ahead for Australia's east coast, the ABC reported on Sunday. And the rest of the media lapped it up. The term garnered significant traction, amounting to 8,547 mentions over the past week across Australian online news, print, radio, TV and podcasts, according to Streem. The public was a tad sceptical. When the story was posted on the ABC Emergency's Facebook page, some of the replies included: 'A 'bomb cyclone'? Wow … that's dramatic …'; 'A bomb cyclone hahaha. Now I've heard them all'; and 'Now a bomb cyclone. OMG I can't stop laughing.' Guardian Australia published an explainer on Tuesday noting that the BoM stopped short of using that terminology and mostly referred to this week's weather pattern as a 'vigorous' coastal low. While 'bomb cyclone' is not inaccurate, it caused some confusion across the ABC's programs as meteorologists asked to explain it politely talked the term down. 'It's not a term that we choose to use here at the bureau, because it can give people really specific ideas of what they might expect with the weather, which might not actually be what we're forecasting,' one told Patricia Karvelas. Sign up to get Guardian Australia's weekly media diary as a free newsletter When Ros Childs asked the same of the senior meteorologist Jonathan How he was a little more blunt: 'So the word bomb is a very, very old meteorological terminology, so it's not something we use here at the bureau any more, but it used to describe the way that these low-pressure systems intensified very quickly.' 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'Late this afternoon we became aware that a number of fake signatories had been added to our popular Aukus petition, fraudulently using the names, and in some cases publicly available email addresses, of prominent politicians and ABC journalists,' a spokesperson said. 'We briefly unpublished the petition and after an investigation found that one person had created 37 fake signatories, all of which have been deleted. We have taken steps to block the IP address of the person responsible and to prevent this from happening again.' Sign up to Weekly Beast Amanda Meade's weekly diary on the latest in Australian media, free every Friday after newsletter promotion First there were the podcasts and now the primetime drama series is in development. As the jurors were considering a verdict in Erin Patterson's triple murder trial the ABC announced that Toxic, 'a layered and intricate series' exploring the events surrounding that beef wellington lunch, had been commissioned. Its producer, Tony Ayres (The Slap, Glitch, Nowhere Boys), and showrunner, Elise McCredie (Jack Irish, The Clearing, Stateless), are working with the investigative journalist Rachael Brown of the ABC podcast Mushroom Case Daily fame. Ayres says the story will be told in multiple timelines and from multiple perspectives. 'True stories ask storytellers to probe the complexities of human behaviour,' he says. 'What really lies beneath the headlines? It's both a challenge and a responsibility to go beyond the surface – to reveal, not just sensationalise.' The SBS ombudsman has written to people who complained about the Insight episode on ME or chronic fatigue syndrome to say an investigation found the program did not breach the broadcaster's editorial code. 'Having provided a relevant range of viewpoints in the presentation of the topic, the program was broadcast in line with the code,' the letter seen by Weekly Beast said. 'If you consider this response to be inadequate you are entitled to take your concerns to the Australian Communications and Media Authority.' People living with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome who appeared on the episode had accused the broadcaster of betraying them in the final cut, filing multiple complaints to the ombudsman. They said the show presented a potentially harmful and unscientific narrative and favoured a person who said she had 'cured herself' by 'listening to her body'. One participant who is a carer for his wife and daughter, Peter McCluskey, is disappointed with the outcome and stands by his view that Insight sidelined science, clinical expertise and the lived experience of patients 'all under the guise of balance'. McCluskey said he was considering taking his complaint to the Acma. The Project aired its last episode last Friday after 16 years but its social media pages, run by the production company Roving Enterprises, have continued to entertain. 'The bosses really should have changed the password from Password1,' on Instagram post read. The caption said 'Well, well, well, look who is in charge now … It's me! The social media hero (that's what I call myself). So, one question: what should I do with these accounts?'
