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for sleeping at night. Many escaped to cooler conditions at the coast with beaches packed over the weekend of 9 to 10 September. The DogFest show at Knebworth House in Hertfordshire was cancelled. The thundery breakdown caused various impacts with localized flash-flooding. Thousands of runners taking part

cut. Then on the 18th flooding across the east of England caused disruption to some bus services in Lowestoft and in Hatfield. A number of mobile rapid covid test sites across the east of England closed due to heavy rain and flooding. In London the A102 Blackwall Tunnel Northbound was closed due

that the non-linearity of these present some challenges (Hatfield et al., 2021). Use of computationally cheaper and thus faster emulators within numerical weather prediction can ultimately improve the quality of the forecasts by freeing up computing resources to run models at higher resolution, with increased

Eastern England: climate The area comprises the counties of Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, Lincolnshire, the East Riding of Yorkshire and parts of Essex and Hertfordshire The altitude of much of the area is below 60 metres and the Fens has the largest tract of low, flat land

and the yields of major crops grown in the Sahel region of West Africa, thereby aiding the translation of seasonal information into more decision-relevant information. The relationship between seasonal weather and crops is further complicated by a changing climate, as reported in detail by Hatfield et al

day on record by extraordinary margins. Selected stations include Durham (36.9°C +4.0°C 155 years), Sheffield 39.4°C +3.8°C 138 years), Bradford (37.9°C +4.0 °C 134 years), Wisley, Surrey (39.3°C, +1.5°C 108 years), Rothamsted, Hertfordshire 38.5°C, +1.9°C 108 years), Eskdalemuir, Dumfries-shire 32.3

in Monmouthshire. There were delays and disruption on road and rail lines due to flooding in northern England and the West Midlands. Northern England also saw some property flooding. Staffordshire and Hertfordshire town centres were flooded, and there was property flooding in Stoke on Trent with rescues from

in Hull, as well as flooding in some other eastern locations. On the 16th, heavy spells of rain across south-east England caused flooding in a few places around Hertfordshire and London, and various events were postponed or cancelled. In the south-west, the M49 and the A39 saw instances of flooding

affected all of Wales and western/northern areas of England. There was flooding in York; the River Ouse burst its banks but, thanks to Environment Agency flood warnings, property and land were able to be protected. There were also delays and flooded roads in Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire. England

On Sunday, 11 December 2005, a little after 6 a.m., there was a major explosion at the Buncefield Oil Depot in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, resulting in the largest peacetime fire in Europe to date.