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30.07.2025
50 Minuten
Please welcome to the podcast, meteorologist and weather
presenter Clare Nasir. Aisling and Gemma have wanted Clare on the
podcast for many years so this podcast feels extra special. She
brings to life the joy and journey that weather has brought her
along.
Clare started her career at the UK Met Office, training to be a
meteorologist before moving to a broadcast meteorologist role.
She has since worked for every major UK channel, covering weather
but also bringing climate communication to a new level. She is a
voice of authority, calm and sense and loves to share her
knowledge with the next generation offering her time as a mentor.
In a full-circle moment, Clare is now back working with the Met
Office, presenting weather forecasts as well as their climate
videos.
In this episode, we chat with Clare about her remarkable career
and the work she's doing as a mentor and consultant for startups
focused on sustainability and adaptation. We also discuss the UK
heatwave of July 2022, when the UK recorded 40°C for the first
time on record. Clare shared how it felt deeply personal and how
the communication around this event was different, with
attribution science allowing us to make direct links to climate
change.
Clare is an accomplished author of several books, including the
children's book 'Colin the Cloud' and 'What Does Rain Smell
Like?' We honestly don't know where Clare finds the time to do
everything she does but we are big fans.
We really hope you enjoy this episode and finish it loving the
weather a little bit more.
If you want to hear a little more weather and climate chat -
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You can subscribe on Youtube -
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16.07.2025
32 Minuten
Tara Thompson is a communications specialist working with
world-leading Earth Observation scientists, ensuring expert facts
are at the forefront of the climate conversation in policy making
and within the media.
In this episode Tara tells us about a recently launched
Biomass satellite fondly called ‘Space Brolly’ because of its
incredible 12 metre long antenna.
Tara tells us about how this is the first time precision data
will be collected for global forests, with the Biomass satellite
making continuous passes of the Earth’s lungs.
Biomass is capable of seeing through the trees canopies, using
advanced P-band radar technology. This technology can be used to
measure the structure and carbon content of forests providing an
understanding like never before on how much carbon is sequestered
by forests. This data will be vital in informing better climate
policies and how do we best protect the world’s forests.
Tara is optimistic about the future of climate change and how all
climate science is helping to shape a better world. In our ‘get
to know me round’ we learn Tara’s favourite season as well as
reflecting back on a childhood in the west of Ireland, where her
first spark of joy for the weather was born.
We really hope you enjoy this episode of the podcast, and leave
loving the weather just a little bit more.
If you want to hear a little more weather and climate chat -
please hit subscribe, like and share with a friend.
You can follow us on Instagram @fortheloveofweather and on X and
BlueSky @4loveofweather. If you would like to follow more about
Earth’s satellites check
https://www.nceo.ac.uk/ and https://space4climate.com/
You can subscribe on Youtube -
https://www.youtube.com/@ForTheLoveOfWeather
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02.07.2025
54 Minuten
In this episode we chat to Alice Stevens, creator of welly walks.
These are bright yellow tech wellies that people can walk around
in. Depending on the weather, the wellies would say different
poems, sensing the weather with low tech barometric sensors to
understand the weather at the moment. She is also the creator of
rain trail which uses paint to reveal illustrations that would
only appear if it rained. She has many more projects in the
pipeline such as ‘blissful rain, isinit?’, a dialogue around
using positive language around rain.
Alice is a Senior Lecturer in Graphic Design at Arts University
Bournemouth and is currently doing a PhD in the intersection of
British Weather, Creative Practice and Ecolinguisitics. This is a
field of language that studies that explores the relationship
between language, human societies, and the natural environment
and says that if we hide away in building we lose connection and
conversation about the weather and climate.
She leaves us with some poignant thoughts about the importance of
using positive language around the environment, for example
talking about 'blissful rain'. She is working on a new
installation ‘WeatherKin’ that will be used in bus shelters that
shares other people positive memories of rains.
You can find Alice on LinkedIn
https://uk.linkedin.com/in/alice-stevens-222667a0.
We really hope you enjoy this episode of the podcast, and leave
loving the weather just a little bit more.
If you want to hear a little more weather and climate chat -
please hit subscribe, like and share with a friend.
You can follow us on Instagram @fortheloveofweather and on X and
BlueSky @4loveofweather.
You can subscribe on Youtube -
https://www.youtube.com/@ForTheLoveOfWeather
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29.06.2025
15 Minuten
June 2025 started off cool but is set to be a record breaker for
parts of the UK.
At the time of recording there was still a few days to go in June
but some regions will have their hottest June on record, tumbling
a 49 year record.
During the summer of 1976, there was a well documented heatwave
and up until now was the hottest June on record for quite a few
regions in the UK.
There are a lot of fun facts in this short podcast including a
little chat about 'swullucking'!
We really hope you enjoy this episode of the podcast, and leave
loving the weather just a little bit more.
If you want to hear a little more weather and climate chat -
please hit subscribe, like and share with a friend.
You can follow us on Instagram @fortheloveofweather and on X and
BlueSky @4loveofweather.
You can subscribe on Youtube -
https://www.youtube.com/@ForTheLoveOfWeather
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18.06.2025
38 Minuten
For the love of weather podcast is back with a new series. This
first podcast is a hero-gram to climate scientist Prof Ed
Hawkins.
Climate scientist Professor Ed Hawkins is an expert in climate
change communications. Ed was surprised when his visualisation of
a warming world burst into life when his climate stripes
#showyourstripes were used in the 2016 Rio Olympics.
#showyourstripws is a simple and unique way of using colour to
visualising climate change through warmth and colour.
One of Ed’s many climate projects was undertaken in 2020 when he
set up a project to transcribe and digitise millions of paper
rainfall observations. This was undertaken by thousands of
volunteers, the results of which would feed into and ultimately
make climate models more accurate.
It was a project he thought would take a very long time to
complete, but with the help of lots of volunteers they managed to
complete it in just 16 days; the results have been phenomenal.
Ed chats about his brilliant ‘warming stripes’ - #showyouratripes
, which are a simple and unique way to breakdown complex science
into simple colours to highlight a warming world and an
incredible strength of spirit to keep going to find new ways to
tell the story of climate change - a story he cared about deeply.
The warming stripes are available for lots of countries and
cities around the world and you can find them here -
https://showyourstripes.info/
We really hope you enjoy this episode of the podcast, and leave
loving the weather just a little bit more.
If you want to hear a little more weather and climate chat -
please hit subscribe, like and share with a friend.
You can follow us on social media - @fortheloveofweather
You can subscribe on Youtube -
https://www.youtube.com/@ForTheLoveOfWeather
You can find Ed on LinkedIn -
https://www.linkedin.com/in/edhawkinsclimate/?originalSubdomain=ukand
on Bluesky - https://bsky.app/profile/edhawkins.org
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Meet Gemma and Aisling. They have worked in the UK as
meteorologists for over fifteen years. Gemma came up with the
idea that maybe others might like to listen to the non stop
conversations they still have all these years later about the
weather. Over the years they have forecast for festivals,
farming, road, rail, energy, media, aviation and even the humble
ice cream demand forecast and so much more. They have gone
through job changes, life changes and delved in and out of many
hobbies and somehow the weather still weaves in and out of their
lives. So this podcast is for anyone who would like to join our
weather conversations and wherever the jet stream may take us! We
hope you join us for our bi weekly chat and leave each episode
loving the weather just that little bit more.
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