According to the Isle of Man meteorological office, the island's recent snowfall was the heaviest since 1963.
Cooperating institutions: Environmental Management Authority, Meteorological Office, Institute of Marine Affairs, Forestry Department, Water and Sewerage Authority.
The average sea temperature around Guernsey in the first week of April is 9.5C (49.1F), according to the island's meteorological office.
The Meteorological Office said it was the first time since records began in 1969 that the city's maximum was in single digits.
In drought-struck Zimbabwe , the government ordered the official meteorological office to issue no more weather forecasts without clearing them with the presidency.
At Commons question time on 18 January 2010, Mr Bradshaw described it as "probably the best... and most respected meteorological office anywhere in the world".
According to the Isle of Man meteorological office, last month's snowfall was the heaviest since 1963 - the worst hit areas were on the west coast.
The Meteorological Office has said the winds - of up to 60 miles an hour -are expected to increase to gale force nine off the coast.
Cooperating institutions: Environmental Management Authority, Meteorological Office, Institute of Marine Affairs, Forestry Department, Water and Sewerage Authority, Ministry of Works, Town and Country Planning Department, various non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and public communities.
Sir John is a former head of the UK Meteorological Office, former chairman of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution, and co-chaired one of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) working groups.
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But then others objected that the Met Office is the official provider of World Meteorological Organisation statistics and it would be ludicrous to reject their highly sophisticated statistics smoothed by computer models just because the Met Office forecasters were amongst the contestants in the Weather Test.
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