Graham Smith

Graham Smith, one of wxedge.com's international contributors, is based in the Kingdom of Fife, Scotland. Although now resident in the United Kingdom, Graham grew up in the tropics of Australia, where his intense interest in all things weather was born. Spectacular electrified storms, which batter Northern Australia in the "wet season", cemented Graham's interest in extreme weather in his teenage years. Now in his mid thirties and moving to the UK in 2004, Graham's interest in weather was rekindled by the varied and meteorologically challenging climate of an island nation, sandwiched between the expansive landmass of Europe, and the Atlantic ocean. In 2009, Graham's interest in weather inspired him to commence work on the UK's only purpose-built mobile weather lab, known as WeatherEvents.net. The mobile weather lab was completed in the middle of 2009, and Graham has since worked alongside organizations such as the Royal Meteorological Society, as well as appearing on BBC radio programs and Scottish television, in connection with his pursuit of severe weather. Graham is looking forward to contributing articles from "across the pond" and helping to keep wxedge.com readers updated on weather news from the British Isles. You can also follow graham on twitter @weather_events

Latest Articles

  • UK chilled by coldest Easter since records began.
    There was no concern about melting chocolate Easter eggs today in the UK, as the country maintained it's record-breaking low March temperatures. So cold was Easter Sunday, it broke the previous Easter...
  • Epic Floods Hit the United Kingdom
    Many parts of England and Wales have been affected by what can only be described as a series of epic floods, over the later half of November.  In the 8 days between the 19th and 27th of November,...
  • Lucky Escape From Lightning Strike
    Incredible CCTV footage has emerged from Leeds in the United Kingdom of a close encounter with lightning. A man was lucky to escape unharmed as lightning struck a nearby tree, just moments after he had...
  • UK Storms, The Worst In Living Memory
    Yesterday, many parts of the United Kingdom experienced flash flooding and severe disruption, in what is being described as the most severe and intense outbreak of thunder storms in the UK, in living memory. At...
  • A Live UK Weather Event, With a Difference!
    This year, the Royal Meteorological Society (based in Reading, UK) has teamed up with artists and musicians in the local area, to create a brand new UK summer Festival known as the Reading Weather,...
  • Pulse Storms Bring Flash Floods To SE England
    After last week's stunning weather and wall to wall sunshine, some residents in the South East of England got a surprise yesterday afternoon, as pulse thunderstorms triggered along a line stretching from...
  • The UK Gets A Taste Of Summer
    The weather sure has kept us Britons guessing for the past 3 months! After record breaking high temperatures in March, followed by the wettest April on record and then a very cool start to May, everybody...
  • Scotland Enjoys Record Breaking March Temps
    I think it's fair to say that March has been a record-breaking month for many places around the world, with unusually warm temperatures recorded.  Today Scotland joined the record-breaking trend,...
  • UK Storms with a Sting in the Tail
    I make no excuses for the fact I love severe weather. It's been in my blood since I was young and the excitement of experiencing mother-nature behaving badly, has never left me. However this winter,...
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