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and was the UK’s most impactful weather event of the year. Eastern Scotland – where a red warning for rain was issued – was particularly badly affected due to an unusual south-easterly flow with increased rainfall across high ground. Winds from storm Ciarán on 2 November had the potential to be as severe

of Ireland from the storm. 15 trees were reported uprooted or broken in Scotland’s national botanical collection at the Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh, with a further 25 badly damaged. Weather data The analysis chart at 0600 UTC 24 January 2025 shows Storm Éowyn centred off the coast of County

south-eastern parts of the UK in late October. This storm was named by Meteo-France, with the main impacts across the near continent. Storm Claudia brought persistent heavy rain to central England and Wales in mid-November. In South Wales, Monmouth was badly affected by flooding from the River Monnow

a prognostic variable fed by convective detrainment? b) Try and implement the existing PC2 prognostic cloud-scheme and improve it so it works better at km-scale? Next: attempting option (b) – explore why PC2 performs badly in UK regional NWP and try to fix it! Results Low cloud amount averaged over UKV

. In this image, Laos is seen to be particularly badly affected. At this time of year near the end of the dry season, most of these fires would have been lit for agricultural and land management purposes, but in this instance they intensified and spread to such an extent that the resulting air pollution posed

in west and north Wales. There was transport disruption, damage to property and 4 people drowned. Following an exceptionally wet autumn with over twice the normal rainfall, late October and early November 2000 also saw severe flooding, with the River Dee in north Wales particularly badly affected

into Argyll & Bute and the Firth of Clyde. It was mostly grey and drizzly on the 15th, 16th and 17th, and rather warm by night with Dunbar (East Lothian) not falling below 17.0 °C on the night of the 16th/17th. The cloud and rain and drizzle cleared northern areas during the 17th, leaving brighter

and light rain or scattered showers. A ridge of high pressure brought a mostly dry cloudy day on the 14th but a band of rain spread into Argyll & Bute and the Firth of Clyde. It was mostly grey and drizzly on the 15th, 16th and 17th, and rather warm by night with Dunbar (East Lothian) not falling below 17.0

on, with an area of rain spreading into the west and heading into northern counties. The rain cleared away north-eastwards by midday on the 28th, leaving another dry sunny day. After early fog around the Moray Firth, most places were again dry and sunny on the 29th with a high of 28.3 °C at Cromdale (Morayshire

, making it the equalthird warmest June in a series from 1910. Rainfall was 80% of average, and it was a dry month in the northeast but with near-average rainfall in most western and southern counties. It was a very sunny month except around the Firth of Forth, with 147% of average sunshine overall