For the love of weather

You can find this episode on YouTube https://youtu.be/DdzWtBlNijc In this episode of For the Love of Weather, we are joined by Chief Meteorologist and Climate Specialist Jeff Berardelli for a fascinating conversation about hurricanes, climate communication and one of the world's most recognisable climate visuals, the Climate Stripes. Jeff is a broadcast meteorologist for WFLA News Channel 8 Tampa...

You can find this episode on YouTube https://youtu.be/13oYbutPmyQ What a week it's been for millions of people in the UK. The recent UK heatwave broke records, in fact not just broke but smashed records; not the type of records we want to break. From our health, transport to our homes and everyday lives, the impacts were felt by many of us not just here in the UK but across Europe. And heatwaves w...

You can watch this episode on YouTube https://youtu.be/HGMIqOpH0Ng In this episode of For the Love of Weather, hosts Gemma and Aisling are joined by adventurers Jess Rowe and Miriam Payne, the first women to complete a non-stop, unsupported row across the Pacific Ocean. They share their remarkable story of how a conversation about “what next?” soon became one of the world’s toughest record breakin...

In this episode of For the Love of Weather , Gemma and Aisling are joined by renowned meteorologist and climate communicator Bernadette Woods Placky. At the time of recording Bernadette was the Chief Meteorologist and Climate Matters Director at Climate Central. She has since moved on to a new role. Bernadette shares her journey from studying meteorology at Penn State to becoming an Emmy Award-win...

In this episode of For the Love of Weather, we’re chatting to Sally Sattary and Tom Cox from ‘Decent Energy’ about renewable energy, smart technology, and how the weather plays a huge role in powering our homes 🌍⚡. You can watch this episode on YouTube https://youtu.be/jLpVWEEif_k Decent Energy is an award winning start up. They are not an energy company but a company in the middle trying to red...

You can find a direct link to this podcast on YouTube here https://youtu.be/9jOHs9RoNWw This is the podcast’s second instalment of the Blue Earth Summit. In this inspiring episode of For the Love of Weather, meteorologist hosts Gemma and Aisling take listeners to the Blue Earth Summit, where conversations about weather, climate, creativity, and the future of our planet take centre stage. They spea...

In this special episode of For the Love of Weather, Gemma and Aisling head to the annual Blue Earth Summit for a series of inspiring conversations with people driving real environmental change. They begin with Dan Bradbury from World Land Trust, who shares how the organisation protects and restores land in partnership with local communities across 33 countries. From community-managed forests in Ta...

Meet Caroline Cox, Earth Observation Algorithm Scientist with RAL Space. She works on satellite missions that help us understand our planet better. From calibrating brand-new satellite instruments to turning raw space data into scientifically accurate images, she’s part of the huge team effort that makes those stunning satellite pictures possible. Caroline's work often starts at least ten years be...

In this episode we meet Australian meteorologist and Nine News presenter Jessica Braithwaite. We discuss all things weather, climate and Jessica’s beautiful, heartfelt newly released book and song ‘Whatever the Weather, We’re in This Together. This episode was recorded at the end of 2025 and our conversation is more relevant than ever as we have watched Jessica for the first time put an unpreceden...

Just when you think you know something about trees, you learn even more! Such an interesting episode with Dr Ruth Swetnam, Carbon & Research Manager for the Atlantic Rainforests Programme at the Wildlife Trusts. Ruth is a Chartered Geographer and Landscape Specialist with particular expertise in digital mapping (GIS), Environmental Science and Landscape Ecology. Ruth tells us about temperate r...

Gemma and Aisling were invited to speak to some of the incredible people behind the new Carbon Garden at Kew Gardens in London which opened in July 2025. This is part 2, part 1 was released on the 27th of August 2025. This extraordinary new space explores the story of carbon and how important it is to life on Earth. More than just a beautiful garden, this project communicates the scale of the clim...

Gemma and Aisling were invited to speak to some of the incredible people behind the new Carbon Garden at Kew Gardens in London which opened in July 2025. This is part 1 with part 2 to follow in two weeks. This extraordinary new space explores the story of carbon and how important it is to life on Earth. More than just a beautiful garden, this project communicates the scale of the climate crisis wh...

Please welcome award winning climate activist Laura Young aka @lesswastelaura to the podcast. If you haven’t heard of Laura, she is the person that changed the law in under 500 days to ban disposable vapes in the UK. She is also an award winning climate activist as well as being named in the King's Foundation's 35 under 35. Laura talks about her current PhD research on enhancing Scotland’s resilie...

Please welcome to the podcast, meteorologist and weather presenter Clare Nasir. Aisling and Gemma have wanted Clare on the podcast for many years so this podcast feels extra special. She brings to life the joy and journey that weather has brought her along. Clare started her career at the UK Met Office, training to be a meteorologist before moving to a broadcast meteorologist role. She has since w...

Tara Thompson is a communications specialist working with world-leading Earth Observation scientists, ensuring expert facts are at the forefront of the climate conversation in policy making and within the media. In this episode Tara tells us about a recently launched Biomass satellite fondly called ‘Space Brolly’ because of its incredible 12 metre long antenna. Tara tells us about how this is the...

In this episode we chat to Alice Stevens, creator of welly walks. These are bright yellow tech wellies that people can walk around in. Depending on the weather, the wellies would say different poems, sensing the weather with low tech barometric sensors to understand the weather at the moment. She is also the creator of rain trail which uses paint to reveal illustrations that would only appear if i...

June 2025 started off cool but is set to be a record breaker for parts of the UK. At the time of recording there was still a few days to go in June but some regions will have their hottest June on record, tumbling a 49 year record. During the summer of 1976, there was a well documented heatwave and up until now was the hottest June on record for quite a few regions in the UK. There are a lot of fu...

For the love of weather podcast is back with a new series. This first podcast is a hero-gram to climate scientist Prof Ed Hawkins. Climate scientist Professor Ed Hawkins is an expert in climate change communications. Ed was surprised when his visualisation of a warming world burst into life when his climate stripes #showyourstripes were used in the 2016 Rio Olympics. #showyourstripws is a simple a...

In this new episode of For the Love of Weather podcast we chat with meteorologist, weather presenter and author Sean Batty, who dives into his debut children’s book “The Worst Christmas Weather Ever.” This is a beautiful story that explores real events of climate change through the adventures of Santa Claus and focus’ on children as the hero’s. Sean emphasises the importance of hope and offers pra...

In this episode we chat to the brilliant Sarah Kent - a meteorologist and founder of Wild Soul Coaching. Sarah lives on a narrow boat and has done so for the past 2 years, navigating UK waterways. Her curiosity about the world around her as a child led her to science but she bas always had the soul of a philosopher. We get a practical insight into life on a boat and how being a meteorologist comes...

This is the second episode from the Blue Earth Summit 2024. 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 and yet again we were blown away by the amazing conversations we had and most importantly people’s willingness to give us their time to talk about what they were passionate about. T...

We were thrilled to return to the Blue Earth Summit 2024 this time in London. 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 and yet again we were blown away by the amazing conversations we had and most importantly people’s willingness to give us their time to talk about what they were p...

Meet Ben Rich - presenter, meteorologist and journalist. Ben can’t remember when he didn’t love the weather. Growing up in south-west England meant from a young age he understood how quickly the weather could change. He says his mother tells him he was obsessed with the time and maps and so broadcasting the weather seemed like the only road for Ben. Ben worked through the record breaking heat in t...

Meet Zoë Johnson, meteorologist, journalist and author. She released her first book this year as a co-author of the Weather Almanac 2025. Zoë joined forces with Storm Dunlop who is an astronomy and meteorology author, to write this next almanac. This is a continuation of the series with the publishers Harper Collins. In our chat with Zoë, she tells us she can’t remember a time when she didn’t love...

We both find weather satellites fascinating and so really enjoyed recording this episode of the podcast. We were incredibly lucky to be able to talk to Graeme Mason and Thorsten Fehr from the European Space Agency in this episode. Graeme is the Meteorological Programmes Manager at the European Space Agency and is responsible for the implementation of a number of satellite missions including the Me...