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• Microsoft Word - 2026_02_storm_goretti_1.docx

  power and around 15,000 properties were reported without water supplies in Helston and the Lizard. Schools in the red warning area were closed. Yachts were blown over at a shipyard near Falmouth and the roofs of the grandstand at the Cornish Pirates ground in Penzance, and Truro Cathedral were damaged

• January weather extremes: a look back records from past events

  on 31 January 1902, with similarly high values seen in England (1053.1mb in Falmouth, 1905) and Wales (1050.5mb in Mumbles, 2020). Such high-pressure systems can dominate for days, leading to cold, calm and often frost-laden weather. Rainfall extremes: concentrated downpours and their impacts While

• factsheet_7-climate-of-south-west-england_2023.pdf

  . Austell Barnstaple Exeter Princetown Plymouth Plymouth Nettlecombe Bruton Yeovilton Taunton Yeovil Exeter airport Teignmouth Torquay Penzance Penzance Gwennap Head St. Mary’s Falmouth Pendennis Point Lizard Stations Places Figure 1. Map of South West England. The plateaux are deeply incised by rivers

• factsheet_7-climate-of-south-west-england_2023pdf

  . Austell Barnstaple Exeter Princetown Plymouth Plymouth Nettlecombe Bruton Yeovilton Taunton Yeovil Exeter airport Teignmouth Torquay Penzance Penzance Gwennap Head St. Mary’s Falmouth Pendennis Point Lizard Stations Places Figure 1. Map of South West England. The plateaux are deeply incised by rivers

• factsheet_4-climate-of-the-british-isles_2023.pdf

  . Map showing the 30-year (1971 — 2000) average number of days of thunder per year across the UK. Picture (following page) Thunderstorm off Falmouth, Cornwall © SD Burt. National Meteorological Library and Archive Met Office FitzRoy Road, Exeter, Devon, EX1 3PB, United Kingdom. enquiries@metoffice.gov.uk www.metoffice.gov.uk Produced by the Met Office. Met Office and the Met Office logo are registered trademarks. © Crown copyright 2023

• factsheet_4-climate-of-the-british-isles_2023pdf

  . Map showing the 30-year (1971 — 2000) average number of days of thunder per year across the UK. Picture (following page) Thunderstorm off Falmouth, Cornwall © SD Burt. National Meteorological Library and Archive Met Office FitzRoy Road, Exeter, Devon, EX1 3PB, United Kingdom. enquiries@metoffice.gov.uk www.metoffice.gov.uk Produced by the Met Office. Met Office and the Met Office logo are registered trademarks. © Crown copyright 2023

• south-west-england_-climate-met-office.pdf

  in inland Devon. On 8/9 January 1982 conditions were especially severe in the Bristol area where dri s were locally 1 m deep. Another event, this time from convective showers, on 12 January 1987 produced snow depths of 35 cm (Falmouth), 39 cm (Penzance) and even 23 cm on the Scillies. Also, persistent

• south-west-england_-climate-met-officepdf

  in inland Devon. On 8/9 January 1982 conditions were especially severe in the Bristol area where dri s were locally 1 m deep. Another event, this time from convective showers, on 12 January 1987 produced snow depths of 35 cm (Falmouth), 39 cm (Penzance) and even 23 cm on the Scillies. Also, persistent

• factsheet_21-met-office-history-and-timeline_2024pdf

  on the mounting of barometers, while the Committee moved to establish observatories at Kew, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Stonyhurst, Armagh, Valentia and Falmouth. By the end of 1867 the observatories at Kew, Glasgow and Stonyhurst had become fully operational and the remaining four followed before the end

• factsheet_21-met-office-history-and-timeline_2024.pdf

  on the mounting of barometers, while the Committee moved to establish observatories at Kew, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Stonyhurst, Armagh, Valentia and Falmouth. By the end of 1867 the observatories at Kew, Glasgow and Stonyhurst had become fully operational and the remaining four followed before the end