Coronavirus is having a "major" impact on the reliability of our weather forecasts, the Met Office has warned. A number of meteorological agencies get much of their data to help predict the weather from planes flying in the atmosphere.
But when lockdown hit and the aviation industry was all but completely grounded, this left a large gap in the data needed to produce detailed and accurate forecasts.UK planes flying the trans-Atlantic route are the most valuable as most of our weather systems come in from the west.During the lockdown, weather experts were forced to rely more on information from satellites to try and fill in the gaps to produce an accurate weather forecast.