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ECMWF seasonal forecasts. The SPI though, is a relatively small step beyond using seasonal rainfall totals. One example of a comprehensive Supported by: Fund Manager: approach to integrate monitoring and forecasting for sub-Saharan Africa (Sheffield et al. 2014) combines multiple ground data sources

downpour caused surface water issues in the town, and in Sheffield a woman was rescued from her partlysubmerged car. Further reports from Hunstanton in Norfolk and Crediton, Devon, told of roads and properties impacted by excess surface water following torrential downpours. Heavy rain and thunderstorms

of 40cm in some higher-lying Sheffield suburbs. There was also significant transport disruption with road closures and several thousand affected by power outages in Northern Ireland. A similar combination of road closures and local power outages affected parts of North Wales. After a battle between

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) overnight 19th/20th, and on the 20th Storm Bronagh sent a belt of rain north-eastwards across the country with 61.4 mm at Sheffield (South Yorkshire). The 21st was a day of sunshine and blustery showers with a gust to 78 mph at the Needles (Isle of Wight). The 22nd was a wet and unseasonably cool day

around Ballymena in Northern Ireland, and also between Sheffield and Stockport. There was further unsettled weather during the following week. In Scotland on the 6th, flooding around Edinburgh caused road congestion and delays to bus and train services. A number of roads in Glasgow were closed

and surveillance system with the lead times and opportunities available for control options to be explicit (Thomson et al, 2008). Regional and national level forecasting systems for drought and flood are becoming increasingly detailed and high-enough resolution for operational decision-making (Sheffield et al

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Sheffield later on the 17th. Rain in eastern Scotland, especially parts of Angus and Aberdeenshire, led to widespread impacts with reports of flooding on roads and railways from as far apart as Edinburgh and Inverness. Several severe river flooding warnings were issued by SEPA. The 21st saw locally

in Sheffield were shown to be at direct risk already — a flood occurred mid-project. And while numbers claiming cold weather payments might reduce in the milder winters expected as our climate changes, what would be the implications of the Government needing to fund widespread air-conditioning in hotter