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area of the United Kingdom enclosed by Bristol, Lancashire and London. Central estimate The level at which half of possible outcomes lie above and half below; often referred to as the median. CO2 carbon dioxide, a gas in Earth's atmosphere. It occurs naturally and is also a by-product of human
(Isle of Wight). Numerous other stations recorded gusts exceeding 60Kt (69mph). A feature of storm Gerrit was the persistence of the strongest winds. The chart below shows hourly maximum gusts at Blackpool, Squires Gate (Lancashire), Lake Vyrnwy (Powys) and Mumbles Head (Swansea) from Christmas Day
since 2013. It was a dry month in Cumbria and north Lancashire but wet elsewhere, and with 160% of average rainfall it was the joint 7th wettest March in a series from 1910, and the wettest March since 1981. Some parts of the south and south-west, the Midlands and the north-east had well over twice
. There was widespread travel disruption across the east and south-east of England due to fallen trees, debris and some flooding. The Orwell Bridge was closed, and major delays arose on the M25, A12 and M11. There were some power outages, a landslip between Horsham and Dorking, and trees on train lines caused
record for the hottest late August bank holiday with 33.2 °C at Heathrow on 26 August. Also during July, Cheshire received more than twice the average rainfall for the month (219%). Other counties in central and northern England, including Lancashire, Staffordshire Derbyshire and Leicestershire, also
, the Mourne mountains in Northern Ireland, mid-Wales, Lancashire and Berkshire. Fortunately rainfall at the end of the first week of May helped the fire services bring these under control. Following the exceptionally dry Spring, on 10 June, parts of the east Midlands and East Anglia were declared
Max gust speed (m.a.s.l.) (knots) Highest gust since: High Bradfield, South Yorkshire 395 81 18 January 2007 86 knots Capel Curig, Gwynedd 216 76 11 November 2010 79 knots Islay, Port Ellen 17 71 3 January 2012 84 knots - see Table 1 Winter Hill, Lancashire 440 71 3 January 2012 73 knots - see Table
Stonyhurst, Lancashire 14.1 01/01/2022 13.5 25/01/2016 83 Aberporth, Ceredigion 13.5 01/01/2022 13.4 26/01/2003 80 December - highest min Sheffield, South Yorkshire 13.0 31/12/2021 12.9 12/12/1994 136 Bradford, West Yorkshire 12.4 31/12/2021 11.6 17/12/2015 113 Buxton, Derbyshire 11.6 31/12/2021 11.5 12
by strong winds, gusting at around 30 kt (35 mph). Recorded snow depths at 0900 UTC on 24 March included 41 cm at Middleton, Derbyshire, 27 cm at Bingley, West Yorkshire, 35 cm at Darwen, Lancashire and 75 cm at Llamarnon Dyffryn Ceiriog, Wrexham. The snow was accompanied by unseasonably low temperatures
the 1981-2010 long-term average. Rainfall was 132% of average and sunshine was just 76% of average, and it was particularly wet in south Yorkshire, Humberside and parts of the Midlands with more than twice the normal rainfall. However, Cumbria and north Lancashire were drier than average. 1st to 7th
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