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		BBC Weather looks at the processes that produce weather both in the UK and around the world. Weather Basics Air Pressure Avalanches Day and Night Deluges Discovering Air Masses Drought Drought in 2006 Drought and Floods Feels Like Fog Frost General Wind Circulation Green Flash Hail High Pressure Ice Jet Streams around the World Jet Streams in the UK Lightning Lightning - Safety Lightning - Strike Mirages Mountains and Weather Nacreous and Noctilucent Clouds Northern Lights Optical Phenomena Orographic Uplift The Atmosphere The Surface Exchange Process Urban Heat Islands Weather and Visibility Weather at Altitude Weather Fronts Wind Wind - Katabatic Winds Wind - The Beaufort Scale Wind Chill Explained UK Weather Areas at Risk of Flooding April Showers British Weather (Part One) British Weather (Part Two) British Weather (Part Three) Frost Hollows Heat Wave in 2003 June in the UK North Atlantic Oscillation Pollen and the Wind Review of 2005 Review of UK Summer 2004 and predictions for 2005 Review of UK Summer 2003 Review of UK Summers - 1998 - 2002 Scottish Weather (Part One) Scottish Weather (Part Two) The August 2003 Heatwave UK Records Weather and the Year Weather and Zonal Flow Winter High Pressure Historical Weather Events in the UK The 1908 Spring Snowstorm The 1953 East Coast Floods The 1976 Drought The Great Derby Day Disaster of 1911 The Great Storm of 1703 Forecasting Ensemble Forecasting Lapse Rates World Weather Hurricanes Hurricane Isabel 2003 Hurricane Katrina Hurricane Katrina - Impacts Hurricanes - 2004 Predictions 2004 - An Active Hurricane Season Hurricanes - 2005 Predictions Hurricanes - 2006 Predictions Hurricanes - 2007 Predictions Extreme Weather - Is Climate Change to Blame Hurricanes - Naming Conventions Hurricanes - Seasons La Niña Lake Effect Snow The Asian Monsoon Tsunamis Tsunami Disasters The Impacts of the Asian Monsoon The Khamsin The Mistral Winds of the World Climate Ice Ages (Part One) Ice Ages (Part Two) Microclimates

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