Professor Adam Scaifeis head of Monthlyto Decadal Prediction at the UK Met Office and honorary visiting Professor at Exeter University. He investigates mechanisms and predictability of weather and climate andhas over 20 years experience in modellingthe atmosphere with computer models.He has published around 100 scientificpapers in leading journals and his recent studies include exciting new evidence for long range predictability of winter weather. His work has helped understand how the freezing European winters of the 1960sgave way to the mild, wet winters of the1990s and how other effects like El Nioand solar variability affect our climate. Professor Scaife was recently awarded the Lloyd's of London Science of Risk Research Prize for Climate Change research and the L.G. Groves prize for Meteorology. He regularly communicates the latestmeteorological science to the public via television, newspapers and other media.