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England. Once again, it's important to note there is a very low likelihood that any one location within the area will experience impacts from thunderstorms, but where the storms do occur up to 30mm of rain is possible in less than an hour which has the potential to generate some surface water flooding

, making life very difficult especially to farmers. Longer droughts have manifested into unique crop and animal pests and diseases leading to low Agricultural production and food insecurity. Over the years, the cattle keepers are forced to migrate to safer wet land catchment areas or sell

Storm Darragh is moving across the UK bringing very strong winds, heavy rain and some hill snow.

Today will be a very windy day across the UK, especially in the West. A Red Severe Weather Warning for wind has been in force until 11:00 7 December for western and southern Wales as well as English counties around the Bristol Channel. In Wales gusts of 93mph were recorded overnight at Capel Curig

, Steve Willington, said: “We could see disruption today and tomorrow, particularly across parts of Scotland, Northern Ireland, Northern England and West Wales, due to the very strong winds and heavy rain associated with Storm Ashley. In addition, the strong winds will coincide with high spring

the mid-teens Celsius. Further north, it will feel cooler, with temperatures near or just below average, and the north of Scotland seeing mid-single figure highs. After very heavy rain and gusty winds from Storm Claudia on Friday it’s going to turn drier this weekend but also quite a bit colder. Find

, but how unusual is it? Author: Press Office 2 October 2025 Storm Amy has been named by the Met Office as the first storm of the 2025/26 season. As it approaches the UK, Amy is expected to bring a spell of very strong winds and heavy rain, particularly affecting northern and western regions

  Summary Arctic sea ice extent is currently joint-3rd lowest on record for the time of year (since satellite records began in 1979). Sea ice loss in the Arctic during July was the largest on record by a small margin. However, sea ice loss from 21st July – 10th August was very slow because

, Antarctic sea ice extent remains very low for the time of year, equal-lowest with 2019.   Current Arctic sea ice state Arctic sea ice extent on 10th June was 11.32 million sq km. This was 0.75 million sq km below the 1981-2010 average and was the 11th lowest on record for this date (Figure 1). Figure 1

© Crown Copyright 2019, Met Office 5 Exploring extreme weather | Extreme weather Extreme weather profile cards Hurricane Hurricanes are very large, rapidly rotating storms, with very strong winds and thunderstorms. Each year several make landfall and can cause considerable damage to property

© Crown Copyright 2021, Met Office 01739 5 Exploring extreme weather | Extreme weather Extreme weather profile cards Hurricane Hurricanes are very large, rapidly rotating storms, with very strong winds and thunderstorms. Each year several make landfall and can cause considerable damage to property