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, resulted in high water levels and large waves affecting exposed coastal communities in the south and west, causing coastal flooding. Impacts The storm of 5 December saw Scotland's rail network shut down, 100,000 homes without power, flight cancellations at Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen, fallen

locations have gales a few times a year. Western coasts have the highest frequency of gales, especially the western isles of Scotland. On other coasts, gales are still more frequent than inland. 4 3.5 3 2.5 2 1.5 3 1 0.5 1 0 London Plymouth Birmingham Manchester 8 7 6 5 4 2 0 Lerwick Aberdeen Glasgow

, the nations signed a treaty to keep global temperatures below 2 degrees above pre- industrial levels. This treaty is very famous and is called the Paris Agreement – ask the group if they have heard of it. Within your lifetime, COP26, was hosted in Glasgow Scotland in 2022, COP27 was hosted

of homes across parts of Cumbria, Yorkshire and Lancashire, and rail lines heading north to both Glasgow and Edinburgh were disrupted. Sadly, four people died in the UK and Ireland because of falling trees during Storm Eunice. During this storm, over a million homes were left without power

, 327mAMSL) 118.6mm on 12th at Honister Pass (Cumbria, 358mAMSL) 11.9hr on 27th at Glasgow, Bishopton (Renfrewshire, 59mAMSL) 71Kt 82mph on 21st at Capel Curig No 3 (Gwynedd, 216mAMSL) 95Kt 109mph on 22nd at Cairngorm Summit (Inverness-shire, 1237mAMSL) 32cm on 10th at Buxton (Derbyshire, 307mAMSL

and spells of heavy rain affecting the north of Scotland. On the 2nd, train services between Inverness and Kyle of Lochalsh and also between Glasgow and Oban were subject to cancellations and speed restrictions, whilst ferry services between the Western Isles and the mainland were severely reduced due

Scotland heavy rain on the 10th led to localised flooding of the rail line between Glasgow, Lanark and Edinburgh. Localized intense rainfall on the 11th in the Birmingham area also disrupted rail services. The weekends of the 15th to 16th and 22nd to 23rd brought further reports of disruption as low

while southern England only recorded 50% of the average. Some areas of Scotland including Glasgow, Renfrewshire, and Ayrshire and Arran provisionally recorded over 200% of the average August rainfall. Western Scotland provisionally experienced its third wettest August on record in a series from

. The picture was repeated on the 22nd with rail disruption in and around Glasgow, and roads flooded in the Leicester area with several dozen properties suffering a degree of internal flooding. After this, though it remained changeable until the end of the month, impacts were fewer, despite some

climate conference in Glasgow with Italy, now taking place in 2021 as a result of the Coronavirus pandemic. In addition to our ongoing climate work we are planning on hosting an agenda-setting science conference, involving a strong virtual presence linking international partners. We aim to be a carbon