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Dennis, as actuals and % of 1981-2010 February long-term average. Storm Dennis brought 50 to 100mm or more of rain across the high ground of Dartmoor, parts of Wales, the Lake District and Highlands. 100 to 150mm of rain fell across parts of the Brecon Beacons and south Wales valleys. More than

factors such as topography, i.e. hills and valleys, and land use, i.e. urban or rural. This is the HadUK-Grid dataset. The 1 km grid values are then averaged over areas including the UK, countries (England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland) and UK climate districts .   Start dates Series Figures

and shelter. Jo and two other MapAction volunteers went in to support a United Nations Disaster Assessment and Coordination (UNDAC) deployment. Their first task was to help determine the scope of the emergency. This included pulling together information from satellite images of the valley hit

mechanism has been developed to ensure that the availability and quality of the disseminated information reaching the community is assessed and that the recorded feedback is shared with TMA in Dar es Salaam, and KMD in Nairobi. “Students informed their parents especially those who live at the valley used

, work out who is going to be affected and where we need to be.  It's harder when it's unpredictable. Storm Arwen was a case in point, because that red weather warning was over Northumberland, but we ended up being really badly hit in Cumbria. There was an unusual funnelling effect down the valleys

due to the poor weather. Rain on the 8th gave poor road conditions in Wales, with flooding affecting the M4 and the A55, as well as the Conwy Valley railway line. On the 10th/11th thundery showers in north-west England caused a suspected lightning fatality in Blackpool and flooding on the M60 between

. In contrast, the Thames Valley, London and the north Kent coast normally receive less than 650 mm of rain per year, and less than 550mm around the Thames Estuary. These values can be compared with annual totals around 500 mm in the driest parts of eastern England and over 4000 mm in the western

, an expert in Disaster Management Department in the Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa’s Office, said the projects have changed the way government deals with weather and climate matters. “There are almost 34 weather stations in valleys or basins within communities in Liwale-Mtwara, Bahi-Dodoma and Arumeru

mph) at Valley (Anglesey) and 69 Kt (79 mph) at Mumbles Head (Swansea). Ex-hurricane Ophelia occurred on the 30th anniversary of the Great Storm of 16 October 1987 . For comparison, maximum gust speeds in 1987 are shown below, exceeding 70 Kt widely across south-east England and 80 to 90 Kt

systematic measurements began in the 1980s. Death Valley, in the south-western United States, recorded 54.4 °C in August 2020 - the world’s highest recorded temperature since 1931. This was equalled in July 2021.  On 6 February Esperanza station reached 18.3 °C, the highest temperature recorded