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was considered the most severe storm to hit the Irish Sea in the 19th century. The storm depression was first noted in the Bay of Biscay near Cape Finisterre on 24–25 October and the centre progressed northwards over Britain from Cornwall to the Yorkshire coast. The strongest winds in the system developed

disruption, 150 schools closing, and power lost to 40,000 homes, some for a period of up to 48 hours. March saw three Amber warnings for snow access the Pennines, North Wales and the East of Northern Ireland seeing major travel disruption, 30,000 properties without power in Yorkshire and Derbyshire

to a new level. Catherine Maguire, stationed at an RAF base that trains fast-jet pilots, often finds herself advising individual pilots on the routes they plan to fly. “They might say, ‘I’m flying from Yorkshire to the north of Scotland via these valleys’”, says Catherine. “Because their aircraft

. To this aim, the UK has developed a network of observation stations called the UK Deriving Emissions related to Climate Change (DECC) network. Along with MHD, it consists of three tall 5 tower stations: Ridge Hill (RGL) near Hereford; Tacolneston (TAC) near Norwich; Bilsdale (BSD) in North Yorkshire

, in combination with tide levels, EA flood forecasting and local knowledge, to provide coastal flood warnings. Storm surge of 1953 The greatest storm surge on record for the North Sea occurred on 31 January and 1 February 1953. The surge height reached 2.97 m in Norfolk and 3.36 m in the Netherlands. 1,835