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on the 17th, 74.6 mm of rain fell at Capel Curig (Gwynedd). A wind gust of 70 knots (81 mph) was recorded at Needles (Isle of Wight) on the 16th. A snow depth of 6 cm was measured at Middleton (Derbyshire) on the 10th, and at Mugdock Park (Stirlingshire) on the 11th. Weather impacts Storm Freya made

temperatures of 20.8 °C were recorded at St James’s Park (London) on the 23rd and Treknow (Cornwall) on the 25th. A minimum temperature of -9.1 °C was recorded at Aboyne (Aberdeenshire) on the 2nd. In the 24 hours ending at 0900 UTC on the 2nd, 51.6 mm of rain fell at White Barrow (Devon). A wind gust

. It was a mild night with London St James’s Park not falling below 19.6 °C overnight, then cloudy for most places on the 18th with mainly light rain through central and southern counties, the wind and rain intensifying generally over these parts, persisting for the rest of the day and turning locally

, with rain into northern counties by lunchtime, turning heavy at times, reaching the Midlands by mid-afternoon and southern parts by evening, the wettest location being Honister (Cumbria) with 65.4 mm. After a mild night, with Faversham (Kent) and St James’s Park (London) both recording minimum temperatures

of these within Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, and Northamptonshire. Numerous flood warnings were issued with several sites recording in excess of 100mm of rain just on the 23rd alone. The Billing Aquadrome caravan park in Northamptonshire was reported to have been precautionarily evacuated with around 1000

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more than 1.0°C warmer in the last 100 years. A new course for the red admiral The striking red admiral butterfly has always been a familiar visitor to parks and gardens the length and breadth of the UK. It used to be an exclusively migratory butterfly arriving on our shores after crossing the English

events. In 2007 significant levels of rainfall caused the river Don to burst its banks, flooding Sheffield Wednesday’s Hillsborough Stadium. In 2015 torrential rain accompanying Storm Desmond saw Carlisle United’s Brunton Park flooded, and the club was forced out of the stadium for seven weeks

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on the 2nd, with light snow showers in the north-east, and very wet with rain, sleet and snow in the Midlands and East Anglia from mid-a ernoon. It remained very cold with an overnight minimum temperature of -10.0 °C at Alston Springhouse Park (Cumbria), and windy too with gusts of 84 mph reported