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stream, with cooler temperatures to the north and warm temperatures to the south. Ex-Ophelia which affected Ireland and Britain on Monday and Tuesday had a different origin as it developed from a hurricane in the tropical Atlantic. You can find out the current forecast in your area using our forecast

: Veronica W: Wilson Q, U, X, Y and Z are not included to ensure consistency with the US National Hurricane Centre naming convention and storm naming in the North Atlantic  The west Europe group Last year the Met Office and Met Éireann welcomed KNMI - the national weather forecasting service

is fully available from the “Invent” web site and planned to be moved across to the main site in the near future. • RV reported the hurricane forecast had been very accurate this year. One thing it had highlighted though was that despite being an active season, the impact was low, due to very little

depressions (<34 knots) 5(5) 2(5) 1(2) 0(0) 8(12) Tropical storms (>34 knots, <64 knots) 9(6) 1(5) 12(7) 5(1) 27(19) Hurricanes/typhoons (>64 knots) 10(8) 10(3) 7(12) 1(4) 28(23) Total 24(19) 13(13) 20(21) 6(5) 63(58) Categories assigned based on 1-minute averaged winds Basin name abbreviations

depressions (<34 knots) 7 (7) 3 (2) 1 (1) 0 (0) 11 (10) Tropical storms (34-63 knots) 12 (14) 10 (9) 7 (7) 4 (2) 33 (32) Hurricanes/typhoons (>63 knots) 16 (12) 13 (9) 8 (10) 4 (2) 41 (33) Total 35 (33) 26 (20) 16 (18)  8 (4) 85 (75) Categories assigned based on 1-minute averaged winds Basin name

. However, skill scores against CLIPER were mostly positive. Blanca (02E) 31 May-09 June 943 mb, 120 knots Track forecast errors for this hurricane were very low and skill scores very high. Carlos (03E) 10-17 June 978 mb, 80 knots Track forecast errors were above last season's average due to a left

, but subsequent forecasts were very good. Barbara (02E) 30 June-08 July 933 mb, 135 knots Forecasts for Hurricane barbara were very good with track forecast errors very low and skill scores high. Cosme (03E) 06-08 July 1001 mb, 45 knots Cosme was briefly a tropical storm and few forecasts were verified. 04E 12-14

near to or below last season's average. Norman (16E) 28 August - 08 September 937 mb, 130 knots Track forecast errors were near to last season's average. Olivia (17E) 01-14 September 948 mb, 115 knots Track forecast errors were low and skill scores high for this hurricane. Paul (18E) 08-12 September

at Cape Evans a Northern Party was posted to Cape Adare in East Antarctica (February 1911 - January 1912), where they survived their first Antarctic Winter. In the register below it can be seen that the wind gusted to hurricane force for much of 9th May, this led the observer Raymond Priestley

with boilers (66%) said theirs had never been serviced. And in spite of recent hurricane-force winds, four in five households (86%) admit to never having checked the stability of the trees on their property, and 88% have never checked their roofs for loose tiles. Looking at preparation for when