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with associated slow-moving fronts stretched across the UK bringing persistent heavy rainfall. The satellite image on 23 November 2024 shows the low pressure centre in the North Atlantic and the UK almost entirely swathed in cloud from associated fronts. Image copyright Met Office / NOAA / NASA

disrupted. The M48 Severn Bridge was closed, and several public events were cancelled. Tragically, nine cows were electrocuted in Cornwall, and 22 people were stranded in North Yorkshire.  Storm Darragh tracked east across the UK, with strong north-westerly winds driven by a squeeze in isobars. The Met

Ocean to our west, the Arctic to the north and continental land masses to the east and south. The consequence of this is that our climate is highly variable as the battle of competing air masses plays out over our heads at the whims of the meandering atmospheric jet stream and slowly evolving oceanic

> </Extremes> </Region> <Region id="ne" name="North East England"> <Extremes> <Extreme locId="03238" locationName="Albemarle" type="HMAXT" uom="degC">10.2</Extreme> <Extreme locId="03230" locationName="Redesdale Camp" type="LMAXT" uom="degC">8.3</Extreme> <Extreme locId="03230" locationName="Redesdale

Yorkshire) but most other areas were sunny and warm. Northern areas had a cloudy showery day on the 3rd but most central and southern parts were sunny with isolated showers. The 4th was cloudy in the north and east but brighter in the west with isolated showers. The 5th was cloudy in the south-west

during the 16th, followed by brighter but cooler weather with a maximum of only 9.0 °C at Fylingdales (North Yorkshire). Following a frosty start in some northern parts, the 17th was a sunny day but cool near eastern coasts. 18th to 24th High pressure and easterly winds brought mostly warm and sunny

°C +1.7 °C +4.6 °C +3.8 °C Baseline (1981-1999) 2021-2039 2061-2079 *BBC (2019): https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-62204696 ** UKHSA (2021): https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/heat-mortality-monitoring-reports/heat-mortality-monitoring-report-2021 ***Projections

in the North Atlantic and the UK almost entirely swathed in cloud from associated fronts. Image copyright Met Office / NOAA / NASA. The rain-radar images at 6 hourly intervals from 1200 UTC 23 November to 1800 UTC 24 November illustrate the persistent and extensive nature of the rainfall, particularly across

) overnight 19th/20th, and on the 20th Storm Bronagh sent a belt of rain north-eastwards across the country with 61.4 mm at Sheffield (South Yorkshire). The 21st was a day of sunshine and blustery showers with a gust to 78 mph at the Needles (Isle of Wight). The 22nd was a wet and unseasonably cool day