Farewell from the outgoing Co‐Editor‐in‐Chief

Weather means a great deal to me, as I know it does for many of our readers. When I first joined the Royal Meteorological Society as a teenager, I was always excited to come home and find the magazine waiting for me – it was my first real connection with meteorology as a science. I still find it exciting to come home and find it waiting for me (even if I’ve already read the issue during production!). It has been a great privilege to have led this journal since September 2020, first alongside Eddy Graham and then Regan Mudhar. I hope that we have kept Weather true to itself while pushing it in new directions and keeping it fresh. There have been challenges during that time – not least the disruption of the pandemic, which impacted every aspect of the journal – but I am proud of where we are now. Please now join me in welcoming Ben Maybee, a Research Fellow at the University of Leeds, as the next Co-Editor-in-Chief. Ben’s work focuses on the dynamics and prediction of deep convection and its associated natural hazards, particularly relating to mesoscale convective systems in kilometre-scale atmospheric models. I have no doubt that Ben and Regan will continue to take Weather to new successes as the journal looks towards its 80th anniversary in May 2026. There are many I would like to thank for the past five years, but above all are our authors (particularly those who have published with us for the first time, as well as those who regularly contribute), reviewers, Editorial Board members past and present, the team at Wiley (particularly Melanie Brunner-Straub, Rob Daniel and Howard Waller), the Society (particularly Alison Brown) and of course Eddy and Regan. Meteorology is a rapidly evolving field; it is arguably in the public eye more than ever and increasingly integrated with climate science, as human-caused climate change plays an ever-greater role in the weather we experience. Just as it has been since 1946, I am certain Weather and its international authorship will continue to be there at the forefront to report, discuss and educate.