meteorology

An ill wind: Helm, by Sarah Hall, reviewed

23 August 2025 9:09 am

Hall’s protagonist in this extraordinary novel is Britain’s only named wind, a ferocious, mischievous beast that has been hitting Cumbria’s Eden Vale from time immemorial

Force of nature

12 February 2022 9:00 am

Philip Hensher describes how John Constable’s energy and imagination freed British art from the constraints of the past

Henry Coxwell and James Glaisher in their balloon car, studying the moisture content of the atmosphere

Their heads in the clouds

4 July 2015 9:00 am

As I got into a Brighton taxi this morning, my driver’s first words were ‘apparently it’ll clear in a couple…