The Met Office has launched radiation sensors strapped to a weather balloon to go more than 100,000ft (30,480m) above its site in Cornwall to improve forecasts. The monitor launched at Camborne is one ...
Launches of radiation monitors took place concurrently on 17 October at Met Office sites in Camborne and Lerwick in the UK, as well as at De Bilt in the Netherlands operated by Dutch forecasters KNMI.