2024 Weather Forecasting

Year of Issue: 2024

Stamp Description: Weather Forecasting

Stanley Gibbons Ref: 5122-5129

Designs: 

Second Class - Luke Howard, pioneer meteorologist, classified clouds in 1803

Second Class - Storm barometer of Robert FitzRoy, founder of the Met Office in 1854

First Class - Terra Nova Expedition studied extreme weather in 1910-12

First Class - Marine buoys collect data for the Shipping Forecast, first broadcast in 1924

£2.00 - Weather observers were vital to the success of the D-Day invasion in 1944

£2.00 - Radar and computers improved forecasting accuracy from the 1950s

£2.20 - Barbara Edwards became the first British female TV weather presenter in 1974

£2.20 - Supercomputers and satellites help track the Earth's weather today

Printer: Cartor

Print Process: Litho

Perforations: 14.5 x 14

Phosphor Type: 2nd Centre Band, Others 2 Bands

Gum Type: PVA

Other Information:

Originally issued in sheets.