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This weekend’s UK rainfall
Following the heavy rainfall over the weekend, here are the latest rainfall totals: Site Name Area 48hr Rainfall total 9am Sat to 9am Mon (mm) Capel Curig Gwynedd 106.0 Lake Vyrnwy Powys 82.0 Keswick Cumbria 81.6 Blencathra Cumbria 72.6 Tyndrum … Continue reading
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Tagged Environment Agency, flood, flooding, heavy rain, Met Office, NRW, rain, rainfall, SEPA, Storm, storms, weather, weather forecast, weather forecasting, wet, wind
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What are the prospects for the weather in the coming winter?
Anyone who has read the newspapers lately can’t have failed to notice this winter’s weather is in the headlines. Justification for claims of a ‘big freeze’ has come from sources as diverse as the plucky Bewick Swan settling into the … Continue reading
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Tagged cold, El Niño-Southern Oscillation, El Nino, frost, Met Office, Met Office Hadley Centre, North Atlantic, rain, rainfall, snow, Storm, storms, sudden stratospheric warming, wind, Winter
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The latest on Hurricane Patricia
Hurricane Patricia made landfall at 6.15pm local time on 23rd October as a category 5 hurricane near Cuixmala, Jalisco, on the pacific coast of Mexico. This is a relatively low populated area, 55 miles from the nearest significant city Manzanillo. … Continue reading
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Tagged flood, flooding, grand prix, heavy rain, hurricane, Met Office, Mexico, rain, rainfall, Storm, Texas, tropical cyclone, tropical storm, wind
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Typhoon Koppu heads to the Philippines
The very active tropical cyclone season in the North Pacific Ocean is continuing with the development of typhoons Koppu and Champi in the last few days. Typhoon Champi has just crossed the Mariana Islands, but is not expected to threaten … Continue reading
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Tagged heavy rain, Pacific Typhoons, Philippines, rain, rainfall, Storm, storms, tropical cyclone, tropical storm, Typhoon, wind
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Hurricane Joaquin lashes the Bahamas but will it hit the USA?
In recent months attention has focused on the very active tropical cyclone season in the Pacific Ocean brought about primarily by the strong El Niño which has developed this year. Meanwhile, the Atlantic has been very quiet with most tropical … Continue reading
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Tagged England, forecast, heavy rain, hurricane, Met Office, National Severe Weather Warning Service, rain, rainfall, record, severe weather, Storm, storms, temperature, tropical cyclone, tropical storm, UK, weather, weather forecast, weather forecasting, wet, wind
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Typhoon Dujuan strikes Taiwan
Typhoon Dujuan has today (Monday 28 September) made landfall over Taiwan on the western rim of the Pacific Ocean with sustained winds well in excess of 100 mph. Dujuan is expected to drop large amounts of rainfall – 500mm is … Continue reading
Active Pacific tropical cyclone season continues
Early September marks the half way point in the northern hemisphere tropical cyclone season and is often the time when we see the highest levels of activity – so how is this season shaping up? As reported in a news … Continue reading
So what happened to our summer?
Our Chief Scientist Professor Dame Julia Slingo OBE FRS reflects on this summer’s weather and what has influenced it: No-one can deny that we have had a pretty disappointing summer with a lot of unsettled weather and only a few … Continue reading
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Tagged climate, climate change, climate science, cold, dry, England, global warming, heatwave, heavy rain, Jet stream, Met Office, Met Office Hadley Centre, rain, rainfall, record, severe weather, Storm, storms, summer, temperature, UK, weather, weather forecast, weather forecasting, wet, wind
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