内容摘要：Last month, several actors from the programme held signs outside the Scottish Parliament protesting the cancellation.

Last month, several actors from the programme held signs outside the Scottish Parliament protesting the cancellation.

The long spell of warm, dry weather is expected to break slightly this weekend."The ocean lags behind the atmosphere by at least a few days, so it might be that into next week we might start to see the ocean cooling off," says Dr Jacobs.

But she says that this might be just a "temporary dip" as the longer-range forecast suggests the weather will warm up again.If President Donald Trump says he's punishing Harvard University to protect Jewish students, not everybody is convinced.More than 2,000 Harvard students identify as Jewish, and for some of those from abroad, Trump's rhetoric has stirred fear and uncertainty.

"I thought when I left Israel I was leaving a conflict zone," PhD student Genia, 41, tells me.It's foreign students like her that fear becoming collateral damage in Trump's crackdown on some of America's most elite universities.

After last week trying to strip Harvard of its ability to enrol international students, the Trump administration

when a judge indicated she would block the move while the case plays out in court."We can't really predict all that stuff this far out," said Phil Klotzbach, research scientist at Colorado State University, which has also predicted an above-average season.

But NOAA's pre-season forecast is still giving scientists cause for concern – and not just because of the meteorological backdrop.Since the beginning of President Trump's second term,

, with the aim of cutting US government spending and costs to the taxpayer.This has left the National Weather Service – NOAA's weather forecasting and hazard-warning branch – critically understaffed ahead of the hurricane season, several scientists told the BBC.