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, with Appleby badly affected from the River Eden. A British Airways flight was reported to have made the fastest subsonic New York to London journey, making use of powerful jet stream winds exceeding 250 mph. Weather data The analysis chart at 18 UTC 8 February 2020 shows frontal systems bringing heavy

of Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire were also badly affected by flooding from both river and surface water sources. 35 properties were evacuated in Mansfield after a mudslide and floodwaters threatened Derby city centre. Matlock-Derby-Nottingham rail services were cancelled. There were also impacts

, work out who is going to be affected and where we need to be.  It's harder when it's unpredictable. Storm Arwen was a case in point, because that red weather warning was over Northumberland, but we ended up being really badly hit in Cumbria. There was an unusual funnelling effect down the valleys

research from the Met Office has revealed that two-fifths of hay fever sufferers (41%) suffer so badly that it ruins their whole summer. Surprisingly though, more than half (57%) of hay fever sufferers admit they don’t know what type of pollen affects them, meaning they are not armed with the know-how

that successfully managed to reach people who don’t normally use digital. How did they do it? Find some examples of weather reports for hazardous weather. Can you find one that is done really well and one that is done badly? What was good or bad about them? How could they have been improved

and Hampshire were particularly badly affected, but there was also disruption in parts of northern and eastern England. Runways were closed at Heathrow, all London buses were stopped and vehicles were abandoned in the Yorkshire Wolds. A selection of depths at at 0900 GMT on 2 February is shown

and southern England. In the Birmingham area, heavy rain on the 1st led to road flooding, while in Hampshire there was extensive surface water flooding following torrential downpours. Rail services in the area were badly disrupted by flooded sections of lines around Basingstoke and Winchester. Fallen

). The Newcastle-on-Tyne area was particularly badly affected by flash flooding; rainfall rates of 20 to over 30 mm per hour were widely recorded. The following map shows lightning strikes for 28 June 2012 The wet weather continued to predominate for the first two-thirds of July. Many parts of England

be challenging. The visibility does not seem to be badly affected by the anticyclone; there will be patches of fog but these are expected to be isolated and mainly to the south-east of the UK. Although the medium level cloud (above 8000ft) may not affect you directly, it will slow the process of heating

and surrounding areas. Storm Frank then brought further serious flooding to Scotland, again with thousands of properties evacuated and several borders towns badly affected such as Dumfries. Over New Year into January, more heavy rain fell across eastern Scotland with further flooding in Aberdeenshire