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water, and a landslide closed the A470. There were reports of flooding in Manchester city centre with a number of roads around Manchester flooded. In the Yorkshire Dales, some villages were cut off and a number of rivers burst their banks. Further south, Clacton Pier was closed, as was the Orwell

(M) in County Durham, and the A30 in Cornwall. Liverpool and Manchester airport runways were closed for several hours due to snow on the morning of the 30th. Freezing fog also caused delays at Stansted and Norwich airports on the 31st. England diary of highlights January started dry and settled

times, although May 2020 was even drier with just 32.8mm. Some locations recorded even less rainfall with Greater Manchester seeing only 39% of its average for May (26.6mm); making it the driest area of England relative to average. The driest area compared with average for the UK was Inverness which

. A line of convection runs down the Irish Sea. Areas of lying snow are prominent across the south-east and central southern England, the south-west moors, many upland areas of Wales and north-west England and parts of Scotland (especially the north-east). London and Manchester are clearly visible

further winds and heavy rain for the UK, with Wales, northwest England and Scotland the worst affected. A peak gust of 89mph was recorded in Shetland, with wind in excess of 80mph recorded for some sites in the north and a tornado reported in Greater Manchester. Henk (2 January 2024) Winds and rain

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training and research, a critical and rapidly growing area. Northern Intensive Computing Environment (NICE) Led by: Durham University as part of the N8 Research Partnership (Durham and Newcastle Universities, Universities of Lancaster, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Sheffield and York) EPSRC support: £3.1

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

, and on the night of the 11th/12th there were reports of HGVs overturning in high winds on the M6 near Carlisle and also on the M62 close to the Greater Manchester/West Yorkshire border. The morning of the 12th saw the temporary closure of the Cleddau Bridge in Pembrokeshire, with short-term closures also

been affected by power cuts, primarily across Yorkshire. Significant disruption to road and rail transport was reported across northern England with much of the Greater Manchester tram network brought to a halt after trees impacted several lines. The opening day of the Bolton food and drink festival