There’s a popular meme going round that starts ‘We’re … of COURSE we …’, and when it comes to the inhabitants of these isles, no-one would be surprised to hear ‘We’re British … of COURSE we talk about the weather.’ And given that the British are such a weather-obsessed nation, it’s perhaps unsurprising that the UK has been at the forefront of developments in meteorology.
The Royal Mail’s ‘Weather Forecasting’ set commemorates the 170th anniversary of the foundation of the Met Office in 1854, and the history and relatively new science of weather forecasting: the use of
