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Found this article, which may be of interest to some: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-68721690
Network Rail is aiming to turn hundreds of staff into "amateur meteorologists" as part of plans to deal with the effects of climate change.
It wants to help staff to interpret weather forecasts to make better decisions during storms or heatwaves.
The public rail body said it will spend £2.8bn over the next five years on efforts to cope with extreme weather.
Its boss Andrew Haines said climate change was "the biggest challenge our railway faces".
"The extreme weather of the past year that has seen an unprecedented 14 named storms, has taken its toll on our railway - with experts predicting more of the same to come," he said. It has led to Network Rail, which owns and maintains the railways, "relentlessly" having to rebuild embankments and cuttings due to more landslips caused by heavier rain in a way that its predecessor British Rail never had to, a spokesman said.
The body said: "Hundreds of key operational staff will attend Network Rail's new 'weather academy' to help make them 'amateur meteorologists'".
Workers will be trained at the academy, which is a collaboration between Newcastle University, the Met Office, and MetDesk, a private weather forecasting firm.