THE STAMPS IN DETAIL

Number of stamps: Eight

Value of stamps: 2×2nd Class, 2×1st Class, 2×£2.00, 2×£2.20

Design: Hat-trick design

Acknowledgements: Images courtesy of the Met Office and/or © Crown Copyright, Met Office 2024 (with a special thank you to the Met Office National Meteorological Library and Archive), except where noted: Luke Howard by John Opie, courtesy of the Royal Meteorological Society © Open Government Licence 2024, Met Office; illustration of cloud formations from On the Modifications of Clouds by Luke Howard, 1803; Vice-admiral Robert Fitzroy’s storm barometer, c.1875; Royal Charter storm synoptic chart, 1859; Antarctic weather balloon research, 1911 © Scott Polar Research Institute/science Photo Library; page from Terra Nova Expedition weather register, May 1911; ODAS (Ocean Data Acquisition Systems) buoy; Shipping Forecast areas, 1924; observer taking hourly temperature observations from a Stevenson Screen, 1941; synoptic weather chart showing weather conditions on 6 June 1944; weather radar system, Lincolnshire © John Birdsall Social Issues Photo Library/science Photo Library; Met Office radar image showing rainfall intensity during Storm Ciara, 9 February 2020; photograph of Barbara Edwards with a television forecast map, c.1975 © BBC; illustration of a Meteosat Third Generation geostationary satellite © European Space Agency, CC BY-SA 3.0 Igo/science Photo Library; satellite image showing water vapour in the atmosphere © Crown Copyright, Met Office, data: EUMETSAT

Format: Landscape

Number per sheet: 30/60

Size: 41mm×30mm

Printer: Cartor Security Printers

Process: Lithography

Perforations: 14.5×14

Phosphor: Bars as appropriate

Gum: PVA

Stamp designs: Stamp designs © Royal Mail Group Ltd 2024

Also included in Weather Forecasting

Philatelists can invest in Weather Forecasting stamp set extras, including a presentation pack; first day cover with the choice of two postmarks with weather symbols for thunder or sunny intervals; souvenir cover; first day envelope; postcards; framed stamps; stamp sheets; and first day handstamps. The presentation pack copy is written by Peter Moore, author of The Weather Experiment.