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, including sandy beaches, coastal estuaries and deltas, wetlands, and mangrove systems support rich fauna and flora, and play a vital role in coastal protection. They are threatened by extractive industries, pollution, and urban expansion, as well as by climate change. In particular, higher marine

in Thanet regularly exercise control measures due to the rapidly expanding oyster reefs in the intertidal zones. Volunteers exercising control measures on Pacific Oysters in Walpole Bay, Kent. Photo credit: Sherece Thompson, Kent Wildlife Trust. The Met Office in collaboration with Ulster Wildlife

and other ARRCC partners on applied research to assess the impacts of climate change on relative sea level rise along the coast of Bangladesh. This will result in improved understanding and provision of tools to assess the impacts of climate change on sea level rise in the Bay of Bengal and support

for many weeks. Huge waves overtopped coastal flood defences and many coastal communities in Cornwall, Devon and Dorset experienced coastal flooding and damage to infrastructure, buildings and sea defences. The storms also resulted in major coastal erosion, for example by altering beach profiles

and Langdon Bay, Kent. The chart illustrates the particularly exposed nature of Needles, located at 80 masl (metres above mean sea level) on the western tip of the Isle of Wight and fully exposed to westerly winds blowing up the English Channel. The spike in wind speeds on 19 February 2022 was due

such conditions that the temperature fell to -18.7 °C, the lowest officially accepted value recorded in Northern Ireland, at Castlederg (County Tyrone) on 24 December 2010. Most coastal areas do not experience such cold nights; as an example, the lowest temperature recorded at Helens Bay in County

below shows hourly maximum gust speeds recorded at three stations on the south coast of the UK: Isle of Portland, Dorset, Needles Old Battery, Isle of Wight and Langdon Bay, Kent. The chart illustrates the particularly exposed nature of Needles, located at 80 masl (metres above mean sea level

in Uganda and along the western shore of Homa Bay County in Kenya showed that such outreach activities led to significantly higher uptake of information, and effective use. With these updates, the efficiency losses in the weather chain would fall dramatically, reducing the total weather-related deaths

(Category 4 on the Saffir-Simpson scale) named Michael made landfall over Florida. In this satellite image, from NASA's Aqua satellite, the eye of the hurricane can be clearly seen shortly after it passed over the barrier islands near Mexico Beach. This was one of the strongest hurricanes to make

bordering states of India, namely, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, West Bengal and Sikkim. (iii) The orientation of cloudiness across the northern Bay of Bengal and over Bhutan from the satellite images, and forecast of rainfall by Weather Research and Forecasting model (WRF) for more than three consecutive