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The February 2009 Great Britain and Ireland snowfall was a prolonged period of snowfall that began on 1 February 2009. Some areas experienced their largest snowfall levels in 18 years . [ 3 ] Snow fell over much of Western Europe. [ 4 ]
January 2010 was provisionally the coldest January since 1987 in the UK. [1] A persistent pattern of cold northerly and easterly winds brought cold, moist air to the United Kingdom with many snow showers, fronts and polar lows bringing snowy weather with it. The first snow fell on 17 December 2009, before a respite over the Christmas period. [2]
Date Highest monthly total (UK national average) [11] 266 hours UK (national average) May 2020 Highest monthly total (England) [2] 383.9 hours Eastbourne, Sussex: July 1911 Highest monthly total (Northern Ireland) [2] 298 hours Mount Stewart, County Down: June 1940 Highest monthly total (Scotland) [2] 329.1 hours Tiree, Argyll & Bute: May 1975
21 January – Statistics released by the Office for National Statistics show that the number of unemployed people in the UK has risen to more than 1.9 million, the highest level since late 1996. [24] 22 January – The Disasters Emergency Committee of UK charities launches its Gaza Crisis Appeal following the recent conflict in the region. The ...
The Met Office has warned snow and ice could lead to disruption in some parts of the UK from this Sunday. ... 2024 at 3:44 PM. Parts of the UK, including Glasgow (pictured, 2021), could receive ...
The winter of 2009–2010 in Europe was unusually cold. Globally, unusual weather patterns brought cold, moist air from the north. Weather systems were undergoing cyclogenesis from North American storms moving across the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and saw many parts of Europe experiencing heavy snowfall and record-low temperatures.
A body was found in the search for a 75-year-old man missing in the River Conwy, as the heavy rainfall and thawed snow brought by Storm Bert put more than 400 areas in the UK at risk of flooding.
Yet more snow storms hit the People's Republic of China, disrupting traffic across the northeastern provinces, Beijing and Tibet on November the 10th and 11th. Most of Bulgaria's poor drainage systems and second-rate storm drains failed during the day's heavy rain and windstorms. [40] Snow was also present in most of the mountain regions.