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  • Tragedy and warnings – the origins of the Shipping Forecast

    the Irish Sea on the night of 25 October in 1859. Wind speeds in the adjoining River Mersey were higher than any previously recorded.  800 people were killed and 133 ships destroyed, with 90 more badly damaged. The most famous ship to be lost during the night was the steam clipper, Royal Charter

  • metoffice_weatherheroes_secondary_final.pdf

    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? www.youtube.com/ results?search_query= storm+weather+forecast Can you find some examples

  • FRTR_614_2016P

    restrictions in coastal waters; such as in the Moray Firth and Firth of Forth during prevailing westerly wind conditions. The Pentland Firth is also resolved by multiple cells in the model, although the addition of current information would be needed in order to properly represent wave growth and dissipation

  • factsheet_5_white_christmas_2025pdf

    it had ever been closed due to snow. On 1 December the wind shifted from a north-easterly to a more easterly direction bringing heavy snowfalls across south-east England. The M25 was badly affected with 400 lorries stranded overnight, and Gatwick Airport was closed. There were also delays

  • factsheet_5_white_christmas_2025.pdf

    it had ever been closed due to snow. On 1 December the wind shifted from a north-easterly to a more easterly direction bringing heavy snowfalls across south-east England. The M25 was badly affected with 400 lorries stranded overnight, and Gatwick Airport was closed. There were also delays

  • Microsoft Word - 2026_03_storm_chandra_1.docx

    in County Fermanagh due to a tree falling on a car, and flights at Belfast City Airport and ferry services were cancelled. Only a few days earlier, part of the historic pier at Teignmouth was washed away during storm Ingrid, with the south Devon coast badly affected by large waves - for example

  • Autumn 2025 weather stats: A regional breakdown

    . 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 due to heavy rainfall in the Black Mountains

  • Microsoft Word - 2025_02_storm_eowyn.docx

    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

  • Temperature extremes and records most affected by UK’s changing climate

    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

  • barrett_paul_ppt.pdf

    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

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