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• annual_report_2023pdf

  is now freely available on Windy.com, allowing users to visualise the most detailed forecast available for the UK. This year we have welcomed Edinburgh and Birmingham Universities to the Met Office Academic Partnership. The Partnership brings together research excellence from the Met Office, University

• mwr_2025_11_for_print.pdf

  and Bristol, Paddington and South Wales, Exeter and Barnstaple, and Hereford and Worcester. Services were also badly disrupted between Birmingham and Redditch, Worcester, and Hereford. Flood defences were reportedly erected in Bewdly and Shrewsbury to protect local properties from the rising River Severn

• mwr_2024_12_for_print_v1.pdf

  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

• mwr_2025_11_for_print_2pdf

  between Birmingham and Redditch, Worcester, and Hereford. Flood defences were reportedly erected in Bewdly and Shrewsbury to protect local properties from the rising River Severn. Flood water from the nearby Dulas Brook was reportedly flowing freely through the Herefordshire village of Ewyas Harold where

• mwr_2025_01_for_print.pdf

  as the snow arrived airport runway closures were reported at Bristol, Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds/Bradford and Teesside. Multiple Pennine road closures followed, along with some rail service suspensions. Meanwhile, the prolonged rainfall across southern/central England brought reports

• NCIC Monthly Summary

  and parts of the West Midlands, and around London and parts of Essex. In the Birmingham and Solihull area there were reports of flooding in properties and on some roads including the M42. In London and Essex there was flooding on the rail lines between Romford and Shenfield, with delays to services from

• mwr_2024_12_for_printpdf

  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

• mwr_2026_08_for_printpdf

  with the ground floor at Hinckley and District General Hospital in Leicester flooded on the 27th whilst some 80 properties were reportedly flooded in the Perry Barr district of Birmingham after torrential downpours. The A38 in Bromsgrove was closed by surface water flooding whilst train services between

• england-gritting-information.pdf

  Birmingham City Council Bolton Borough Council Bradford City Council Bury Borough Council Calderdale Borough Council Coventry City Council Doncaster Borough Council Dudley Borough Council Gateshead Borough Council Kirklees Borough Council Metropolitan Districts Gritting Information Map showing

• factsheet_2-thunderstorms_2023.pdf

  as it is not only the lightning strike that is dangerous, but many other factors linked to thunderstorms. These include intense rainfall, large hail and tornados. For example, the Birmingham tornado in 2005 and the Boscastle flood in 2004 were caused by thunderstorms. Other factors such as wind shear, turbulence