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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

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

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

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

since the Boxing Day storm of 1988. Like Ashley, Eowyn underwent explosive deepening as it approached the UK, driven by the dynamics of the jet stream. The storm brought hurricane-force winds, red warnings, and phenomenal sea states, particularly around the Irish Sea. Large waves and beach material

(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

to the UK. Atlantic storm systems affecting the UK in the autumn and winter months normally track west to east, driven by the jet stream, clearing eastwards fairly quickly. In contrast, this storm was on an unusual track from south to north, enabling it to pick up additional moisture as it crossed the Bay

of these convergence lines run through the English Channel and other parts of the UK such as eastern Scotland; due to persistent heavy snow a Met Office Red Warning was issued for Scotland’s Central Belt for 28 February. During the a ernoon of 1 March, a low pressure system in the Bay of Biscay