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England, northeast England and Northumberland, with a gust of 96mph recorded at Berry Head, Devon. Two fatalities were reported on the day of the storm, one in Longton, Lancashire and another in Birmingham, both the result of falling trees impacting vehicles. In Northern Ireland, a cooling chimney

England, northeast England and Northumberland, with a gust of 96mph recorded at Berry Head, Devon. Two fatalities were reported on the day of the storm, one in Longton, Lancashire and another in Birmingham, both the result of falling trees impacting vehicles. In Northern Ireland, a cooling chimney

Rainfall Most Sunshine Highest Gust Highest Gust (mountain*) Greatest Snow Depth at 0900 UTC 33.9°C on 12th at Westonzoyland (Somerset, 3mAMSL) 12.6°C on 22nd at Fair Isle (Shetland, 57mAMSL) 20.4°C on 13th at Hazelrigg (Lancashire, 95mAMSL) 1.2°C on 23rd at Tomintoul No 6 (Banffshire, 320mAMSL

to high winds. Frequent heavy showers on the 6th caused some impacts across north-west England. In Lancashire, Greater Manchester and Merseyside, roads were flooded, resulting in diversions, delays and closures of some lanes on the M60. Northern Rail reported a landslip on the Bolton to Preston line

& NE -23.3 21 January 1881 Haydon Bridge (Northumberland) England NW -21.9 16 January 1881 St Michaels-on-Wyre (Lancashire) Wales N -22.7 13 December 1981 Corwen (Denbighshire) Midlands -26.1 10 January 1982 Newport (Shropshire) East Anglia -20.6 25 February 1947 Woburn (Bedfordshire) England SW -16.7

Ocean Dipole (IOD) is currently neutral. Most longrange forecast models are predicting the IOD to remain neutral over the coming months. It is worth noting that global sea surface temperatures (SSTs) have been the warmest on record for each month for over a year now. The global pattern of warmth

Ocean, trade wind strength and cloudiness near the Date Line are also consistent with La Niña. Longrange forecast models are in good agreement that this pattern is very likely (75%+) to persist over the coming months, most likely until early next year, with some strengthening of the pattern possible

affected parts of Highland Scotland, Northern Ireland, mid-Wales, Lancashire and Berkshire. Drought conditions were declared across parts of central and eastern England in early June 2011. Although these were alleviated by the rather indifferent summer of 2011, the dry autumn and winter 2011 resulted

between 1991 and 2020, Northern Ireland saw the greatest difference to normal with temperatures here reaching 0.76°C above. Sunshine in Spring 2023 was largely just below average. But with 106%, Lancashire was the sunniest county relative to average. May 2023 Spring 2023 could be regarded as a more

and the Isle of Wight. Other events which were cancelled included sea swims and parkruns. Persistent rain across north-west England also resulted in significant flood related problems including multiple traffic accidents across Lancashire and vehicles stranded. On New Year’s day, a major incident