Always good to work with Will Thurston and Max Blake Forest Research - showing the power of interdisciplinary research in responding to invasive forest pests Cambridge Plant Epidemiology and Modelling @plantsci Nicola Spence CBE

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How do we at the Met Office use NAME atmospheric dispersion model outputs to help APHA and The Pirbright Institute conduct surveillance and control of bluetongue disease? 👇

Yesterday in Exeter the temperature hovered around a chilly 12 °C all afternoon - despite us being in summer and the wind being southerly. However, this southerly wasn't bringing us air from Iberia or Africa - back trajectories suggest an air mass origin in Iceland or Greenland!

The atmosphere shows its stripes #ShowYourStripes showyourstripes.info Ed Hawkins

Bluetongue, a viral disease that sickens cattle and kills sheep, is spreading rapidly across northwestern Europe after it resurfaced in the Netherlands last year—and three newly developed vaccines appear unable to stop it. scim.ag/86f

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