It’s said to be our national pastime. But for some, the weather is very much more than that.
On an overcast morning at a sleepy Second World War airfield, a group of scientists is gathering for their morning briefing.
Their mission: to take to the skies over South West England in an airborne laboratory. The objective: to better understand how summer storms develop.
And with climate change driving ever more extreme weather, they say it’s becoming even more important to get their weather forecasts – and their weather warnings – right.
ITV News was invited onboard the flight, a collaboration between the Met Office and the FAAM Airborne Laboratory, to see this unique weather lab in the sky in action.
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