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Climate change may have a range of impacts in the Republic of Ireland. Increasing temperatures may change weather patterns, with the potential for increased heatwaves, rainfall and storm events, with subsequent impacts on people through flooding [41] Climate change has been assessed to be the single biggest threat to Ireland, according to the ...
The winter of 2010–11 was a weather event that brought heavy snowfalls, record low temperatures, travel chaos and school disruption to the islands of Great Britain and Ireland. It included the United Kingdom's coldest December since Met Office records began, with a mean temperature of −1 °C (30 °F), breaking the previous record of 0.1 °C ...
In its monthly summary Met Éireann, Ireland's weather service, said December was the coldest month for 28 years for most of the country and the coldest of any month since February 1986 at several stations. [47] Wintry conditions returned to Europe, as much of the northern hemisphere was gripped by intensely cold weather.
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The temperatures hovered between +5 and −5 °C (41 and 23 °F) for the next 8 days, with 30 November to 1 December having a nighttime temperature of −11 °C (12 °F). Similar weather was predicted for the Austrian Tyrol .
The most severe snowy weather began on 5 January in North West England and west Scotland with temperatures hitting a low of −17.6 °C (0.3 °F) in Greater Manchester, England. [3] The snow spread to Southern England on 6 January and by 7 January the United Kingdom was blanketed in snow, [2] which was captured by NASA's Terra satellite. [4]
The lowest temperature of the year so far, minus 9C, was recorded in Katesbridge, Co Down in the early hours of Monday. Met Office weather warnings for ice and fog remain in place until 10am on ...
The British Isles do not experience extreme weather regularly. There have been several occasions where extreme weather events have occurred. In the winter of 1982, for a few days parts of central and southern England experienced temperatures lower than central Europe and Moscow. In contrast, the summers of 1975 and 1976 experienced temperatures ...