Sarah is the owner of an instagram account called @elecrify_this. She started the account one 40 degree day in Sydney in December 2023. Then on Christmas Day, she accidentally posted a reel that went viral, gaining her tens of thousands of followers. She has a down to earth approach on how to decarbonise and electrify your house. Her instagram account has only been running a short time but it is already jam packed with practical videos on how to make your home more efficient. If kilowatt...

WOW is all we can say. What an incredible guest! Meet Kirsten Neuschäfer who won the Golden Globe Race in 2022. The Golden Globe Race is a solo around the world sailing race and it took Kirsten 233 days to complete it.  Not only is she the only female to win the race, she is also the first South African to win the GGR. As well as that, during the race she rescued fellow competitor Tapio Lehtinen whose boat sank in the Indian Ocean. Kirsten has a wonderful and simple philosophy for  life....

We are delighted to introduce Kathy Morrisey, planning and insights director at Stansted Airport.  Kathy’s inspiration in life is her father who didn’t think there was a barrier to what girls could do. He believed in the power of learning and Kathy said he knew  his daughters could conquer the world.   She said that her father gave her the gift of blind expectation, that you could do anything that boys could do. As it happens Kathy absolutely loved maths and went on to be an engineer. She...

In December 2023 social platforms lit up with images of nacreous clouds. One evening in December 2023 these clouds, also known as mother of pearl clouds, were visible across the UK and Northern Europe. In this episode we welcome back stratospheric expert Dr Simon Lee to find out why these clouds were seen so far south and piece together the relationship between the displacement of the polar vortex while also learning there is a dark side to nacreous clouds.  Dr. Lee talks about how sudden...

We took the podcast to the Blue Earth Summit 2023 in Bristol. Please check out our instagram feed @fortheloveofweather to get a flavour of what we got up to. We captured and shared as many speakers and guests as we could! We were absolutely blown away by the amazing talks and conversations we had and most importantly people’s willingness to give us their time to talk about what they were passionate about. The Blue Earth Summit is held over 3 days where Bristol plays host to 5,000+ decision...

David Cran has worked in aviation for the last 34 years in a range of roles including air traffic control, airfield operations, airport manager and meteorological observer. He really is an expert in his field. He has worked at both big and small airfields, which have handled a range of air traffic from hot air balloons, to big aircrafts such as the A380 and even Airforce One. David is currently the Group Compliance and Assurance Lead for Manchester Airport Group, which covers Manchester, East...

Meet Dr. Lindsay Biermann. Lindsay grew up in a landlocked state so laughs about the fact that she is now an expert in marine aquaculture and waterfowl in the UK. Lindsay says her first memory of being interested in nature was in the sixth grade when she declared to her Mum that she was going to be a zoologist. Roll on some years later and she is now an expert in how climate change is impacting migratory birds in the UK. We learn about ‘short stopping’ and how some species of birds, for...

Winter sea ice in the Antarctic is at a historic low. Imagine an area equivalent to the tenth largest country in the world; that is precisely what’s missing.We revisit Dr Ella Gilbert aka Dr Gilbz to try to comprehend how much ice is missing and just why it’s still making headlines. Dr Ella discuses the unimaginable impact of this extraordinary loss of sea ice, not only in Antarctica, but around the world. As Dr Gilbz always says: what happens in Antarctica doesn’t just stay in Antarctica....

Juliet Kinsman is the owner of ‘Bouteco’, a purpose-led non-profit communications consultancy for trusted sustainable luxury travel content and storytelling free of greenwash. Juliet is also a journalist, author, sustainability editor as well as being a Mum. Her solid ethics and life experience oozes through this podcast and we can honestly say we didn’t want this conversation to end. Juliet Kinsman is an inspiring passionate person who explains to us what it really means to be a sustainable...

Meet Thomas Aubry, lecturer at the University of Exeter and expert in physical volcanology and climate sciences. Thomas talks about the complex relationship between volcanoes and climate change. We were astounded to find out that a changing climate may in fact cause more frequent eruptions due to the potential change in pressure on the magma chamber from any number of processes such as heavy rain or melting glaciers. We learn about the scale of the impact of some of the more recent eruptions...

In this episode we meet author Author Caryl Hart and illustrator Bethan Woollvin. They were brought together through their publisher Bloomsbury books who spotted a small gif of a planet that Bethan created. They asked Caryl if she would be interested in working with Bethan, writing a children’s rhyming books. It was an instant success and they have now created three books together: ‘Meet the Weather’, ‘Meet the planets’ and ‘Meet the Oceans’. Carly tells us about her journey of becoming a...

Fun fact: Alina went to college with Victoria Beckham and lived with her for a year when she was 16. And if that didn’t grab your attention Alina was an actress and dancer. She went on to become an award-winning presenter and broadcaster working extensively across radio and television for over twenty years. You may have seen Alina on Countryfile, the Six and Ten O’clock News, as well as Radio 4. Alina currently works for a company called BodyTalk as a presentation and communication skills...

Jenny is Head of the Real Time Service and System Operations Division at Eumetsat in Germany. She has a wealth of experience in weather and now weather satellites, previously working for ECMWF and the Met Office. Eumetsat is responsible for maintaining and operating meteorological satellites. The organsiation delivers this data to where it needs to go, ensuring that supercomputers around the world are being fed realtime data from space while improving the accuracy of the the most...

Helen Roberts has a breadth of experience in weather forecasting and is the Met Office’s first socio-meteorologist. Helen’s fascination with ‘Big Science’ started as a little girl in the southwest of England, looking at sunsets and thunderstorms from her bedroom window. Listening to Helen on this podcast you can hear how that curiosity has evolved and lasted right the way through her career. She talks about changes in communicating the weather forecast and how the role of a forecaster is...

Dr Emily Fairfax is an ecohydrologist. She is an expert in beavers and describes them as rockstars in climate mitigation. Beavers are nature’s wetland creators, providing natural solution to droughts, wildfire risk as well as well as floods while also providing huge natural stores of carbon. You will probably be as surprised as we were to find out that before human’s fully settled in North America the landscape was unrecognisable from the one we know today. There was a vast network of...

Jonathan Lukies says he is lucky as he has always known what he wanted to do. As a young boy he lived on a farm, absorbing everything his grandfather and father told him. Today he runs Cammas Hall Farm, always working to secure the farms future in a changing economy and changing climate. The mission of the farm is to be a destination where visitors can enjoy the highest quality local produce in beautiful rural surroundings. If you didn't know anything about farming you will be amazed at the...

It was an absolute privilege to talk to Leo Hickman the director of Carbon Brief. The Carbon Brief is an invaluable and trusted resource for the latest development in climate science as well as energy and climate policy. In 2003 Leo worked for the Guardian newspaper. His editor asked him to take part in a journalistic experiment to live an ethical life for one year. Leo, his wife and his new born baby undertook a year that would change his life while writing a column called 'a life stripped...

It's time for a brand new season of For the Love of Weather podcast and Aisling and Gemma are thrilled to have made it to season five. Our special guest tonight is Dr. Simon Lee. Simon is an expert in the polar vortex, more specifically stratosphere-troposphere coupling, a fascinating subject and something that caused the 'Beast from the East in 2018'. Simon gives us a tour of the upper atmosphere and and how it can change our day to day weather in such extreme ways. From widespread snow to...

After a brief brush with a military career Sophie found her calling as a campaign and communications lead with the Beaver’s Trust where she presented their award winning documentary ‘Beavers without Border’. She loves sharing her knowledge and passion for nature and climate and tells us how important it is to get people hooked on the joy you feel when you care about something. Her book has just debuted ‘Forget me not’ and we can highly recommend it. Sophie takes a low carbon journey around...

Dr Ganga Shreedhar was an absolutely fascinating guest. She is an assistant professor in behavioural science at the London School of Economics. Ganga is an applied behavioural and experimental economist studying how to change human behaviour in ways that can benefit people and the planet. She discusses how the weather impacts our mood, behaviour and perhaps more importantly here in the UK - the nation's obsession with weather in conversation.Ganga discusses why your mood might be low when...

Meet Peter Macauley. He is a young wine maker in Chapeldown in Kent. The changing climate here in the UK has meant that growing wine is now a viable option and it turns out wine makers in the UK are getting pretty good at making sparkling wine. Oenology and viticulture will become your new favourite subject after listening to Peter talk so passionately about his labour of love. His attention to detail from soil content in one side of the field to a sunken part of a vineyard that might be at...

Dr Mark Parrington is a senior scientist in the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) Development Section at ECMWF working on wildfire emissions.Mark begins by telling us about Saharan dust in the UK. He also talks us through the positives and negatives of wildfires and ‘black carbon’. He explains how fire seasons are getting longer in California and why ‘mega fires’ are becoming more likely.Mark tells us about scientific advancements in understanding ‘zombie fires’ and why we...

Leif is a botanist and author. He first book is called ‘the orchid hunter’ and his new book ‘where the wildflowers grow’ will be released this summer. In case you thought that writing a book wasn't enough of an achievement he has also just finished a PhD at Kew Gardens.This was an absolutely fascinating episode about how incredibly intelligent and adaptive plants are, so much so that Aisling and Gemma have decided it might be worth giving up a career in meteorology to go and study the secret...

Dr Rosie Oakes is an international climate services scientist with the Met Office, where she focuses on making the outputs from climate models understandable and accessible to people around the world, so they can be used to help them make climate informed decisions. She also happens to be incredibly funny and talented and brings geology to life. Aisling and Gemma agree they will never look at a rock the same again!Rosie started her journey as a geologist and she loves rocks. She shares with...