Dr James Heath, one of Lancaster University’s technicians, recently featured on the Pentland Centre’s podcast “Transforming Tomorrow”, discussing the weather monitoring equipment stationed at the University.

“Transforming Tomorrow” is the Pentland Centre’s flagship podcast which guides its listeners through the ever-changing world of sustainability in business, inviting research experts and business experts from around the world to cover the theory and practice of mainstreaming sustainability into purposeful business strategy and performance.

Featuring on the Centre’s 98^th episode entitled “Tracking Climate Change and the Weather”, Dr James Heath, from Lancaster Environment Centre, discusses his time as one of the team taking daily readings from the Hazelrigg Weather Station, which measure temperature and rainfall, and contributes to long-term Met Office records. Within the podcast, Dr Heath explores Hazelrigg’s origins; his family links to the Met Office – and the lack of Bill Giles and Michael Fish at mealtimes; why the way we manually measure the climate in the long-term has not changed in decades; and discover what the term ‘since records began’ when we hear about record-breaking weather events.

Alongside presenters Professor Jan Bebbinton and former sports journalist Paul Turner, he considers the limits of weather stations when it comes to recording patterns beyond a small geographic area; the differences between the weather and the climate; and the changes Hazelrigg has tracked that are reflected across the globe – both for heat and for rainfall levels.

The full podcast can accessed on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.