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................................12 Climate change We’re causing it, so let’s tackle it...14 00.13 GMT: Just past midnight and local authority duty-officer Karen Johnson is roused from sleep by an important text. It’s the Flood Forecasting Centre in London confirming extreme rainfall in just two hours

cancellations, with trees blocking roads and disruption to the Greater Anglia rail network, as well as numerous power outages. In London the QEII Bridge was closed, nearly all overground services were delayed or cancelled, and a ‘do not travel’ warning was issued by London rail operators with the Mayor

Public Weather Service Customer Group (PWSCG) & Programme Assurance Group (PAG) 1 10:00-16:00, 14 th October 2024 Mary Ward House - 5 - 7 Tavistock Place, London, WC1H 9SN Attendees Met Office Alison Wood (AW) Tom Wigley (TW) John Harrison (JH) Nick Bruce-Jones (NB-J) Jonathan Smith (JS) Sarah

to help combat their grass allergy. Table 1: Awareness levels Most to least aware regions 1 Wales 77% 2 Yorkshire 69% 3 Northern Irelan 68% 4 South West 67% 5 South East 66% 6 East Midlands 65% 7 Scotland 64% 8 East Anglia 62% 9 West Midlands 59% 10 North East 55% 11 North West 54% 12 London 41% Worse

on 26 February with temperatures exceeding 20 °C in London, west Wales and as far north as Rochdale making this a more widespread event than the previous record set in February 1998. New national records were also set for Wales (20.8°C at Porthmadog on 26th) and Scotland (19.3 °C at Aboyne on 21st

and heavy rain, resulting in some flooding in Moray (Scotland), with 56 Kt (64 mph) at Needles Old Battery (Isle of Wight). Ex-hurricane Nadine on 24 to 26 September 2012 caused flooding in north-east England, some fallen trees in the Scottish Borders and a fatality from a fallen tree in London

at 17 to 18 °C across these areas with a 12-hour minimum of 19.6 °C at London St James's Park - exceptionally mild for the time of year. Numerous stations set October minimum temperature records, for example at Cambridge Botanic Garden and Hastings (East Sussex) in 80+ year record lengths. Last updated: 16 October 2018 © Crown Copyright

, especially in rural areas with snow cover, but weather fronts moving in for Saturday will bring less cold air and mostly rain. Higher parts of Scotland may see a few more flakes of snow, but the overall trend is towards milder conditions. Temperature graphs for cities like Newcastle, London, and Glasgow

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falling in the month. Areas to the south and east were particularly dry, with Bedfordshire, Greater London and Essex all recording figures to put the month in their respective top five driest Februarys on record. At a county level, Essex had the least amount of rainfall with 3.5mm falling