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UK climate minister Katie White says a record El Niño leaves the food system vulnerable to the warm, wet, stormy winter the Met Office forecasts. Muddy fields could stop winter wheat being sown, just after the UK's worst-ever harvest.
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Operation Blue Skies will spend 30 months testing whether Google's contrail predictions are good enough for NATS controllers to shift aircraft 2,000ft over the North Atlantic.
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The Met Office's Julian Heming credits this year's record El Nino for the ocean heat beneath the storm. Rapid intensification happens several times a year worldwide, and the two published accounts differ on Polo's peak winds.
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The Department for Transport's share of the £7.8bn plan pays for low Earth orbit capacity to cut signal dropouts on trains by 2030. The plan does not name a service provider, and the date repeats one the rail minister gave in May.
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The delivery annex gives every programme a budget, an owning body and a financial year between 2026/27 and 2029/30, and its biggest line is £2.3bn for the military satellite communications work the projects authority rated red in July.
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Google's satellite analysis puts the avoided warming at about 40%, with more than half of it coming from the Hong Kong to Singapore corridor, which is a better guide to where this pays than the trial's ultra-long-haul billing.
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The forecast signal is stronger than anything in the record since 1950. The observation underneath it is 1.4C, and that gap is the part worth watching.
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The Met Office expects the tropical Pacific above 3C in November, and one aggregated forecast says 3.9C. The global temperature consequence lands in 2027, which is still a planning cycle away.
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Cernavoda and Paks stopped for want of cooling water, not for faults. Thermal derating is turning into a July-August capacity line item rather than a weather story.
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