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at www.metoffice.gov.uk/schools © Crown Copyright 2022, Met Office Mitigating extreme weather risks Extreme weather profile cards Hurricane Hurricanes are very large, rapidly rotating storms, with very strong winds and thunderstorms. Each year several make landfall and can cause considerable damage

Extreme weather profile cards Hurricane Hurricanes are very large, rapidly rotating storms, with very strong winds and thunderstorms. Each year several make landfall and can cause considerable damage to property and loss of life. They are also known as typhoons or tropical cyclones. Find out more

for this storm. Lester (13E) 24 August-07 September 947 mb, 120 knots Track forecast errors were mostly below last season's average for this hurricane. There was a slight slow and left-of-track bias in forecasts overall. Madeline (14E) 26 August-03 September 950 mb, 115 knots Apart from a poor early forecast

Hurricane Hurricanes are very large, rapidly rotating storms, with very strong winds and thunderstorms. Each year several make landfall and can cause considerable damage to property and loss of life. They are also known as typhoons or tropical cyclones. Find out more: www.metoffice.gov.uk/research

day for many, with cloud and scattered showers at times.   Find WeatherReady advice on travelling in rain and wind. Does Ex-Hurricane Ernesto influence the outlook?  Hurricane Ernesto, which brought impacts to Bermuda, is weakening rapidly as it moves into the Atlantic and is expected

; and • A coherent set of tropical cyclone forecast pages are included as PWS outputs rather than just the Hurricane Seasonal Forecast. Summary of Recommendations No. Recommendation 1 The PWSCG maintain the current scope of the Global Site Forecast Service. 2 The PWSCG request the Met Office

and there but turning drier. “However, there's another area of low pressure which is gaining quite a bit of attention. This one is bringing quite a bit of uncertainty into the forecast. It's Hurricane Danielle in the subtropics now, as it drifts northwards it will no longer be a hurricane. But when you've got

The Atlantic jet stream, currently strengthened by the warm tropical air pushed northwards by Hurricane Ian, will drive an area of low pressure across the UK on Friday. The heaviest rain and strongest winds are expected across northern Scotland where a warning has been issued, however many

are complex at present, in part because of warm tropical air tied in with Hurricane Franklin moving north into more temperate latitudes. This will help build an area of high pressure in the vicinity of the UK heralding a spell of fine and warm weather for many of us. Met Office Deputy Chief Meteorologist

Storm Lorenzo October 2019 Storm Lorenzo brought strong winds to the west of Ireland on 3 October 2019 before crossing the UK on 4 October. Lorenzo was a mid-Atlantic hurricane but weakened rapidly as it tracked north-east past the Azores toward the west coast of Ireland. The storm followed a spell