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The Met Office has warned people to prepare for a weekend of rain, wind and snow as Storm Bert sweeps the country, with danger to life weather alerts in force on Sunday.. Weather warnings have ...
Storm Eowyn is set to bring strong winds across the entire country, potentially putting lives at risk, the Met Office has warned. Gusts of more than 90mph could cause power cuts, travel disruption ...
The storm was widely reported in the British press on 25 October, with predicted intensity comparisons made to the Great storm of 1987 and the Burns' Day storm of 1990. It hit the UK, and parts of northern Europe with gusts of up to 190 km/h (120 mph) recorded in Denmark. More than 10 people were killed in the storm. [146] 2013 Nordic storms
The third named storm of this year’s season comes after areas across Scotland and north-east England were battered with the worst of Storm Babet, which caused serious damage and several deaths ...
On 21 January 2025, the UK Met Office and associated organisations in Europe used the name "Éowyn" for the fifth storm of the 2024–2025 season. Éowyn is a fictional character in J. R. R. Tolkien's novel The Lord of the Rings and the name was taken from a list based on suggestions by the public.
For a windstorm to be named, the United Kingdom's Met Office, Ireland's Met Éireann, or the Netherlands' Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) have to issue an amber weather warning, most often for wind, but a storm can also be named for amber warnings of rain and snow (e.g. Storm Arwen in 2021).
A storm is considered a bomb cyclone when the barometric pressure falls at least 0.71 of an inch of mercury (24 millibars) in 24 hours. Far surpassing that measure, Storm Eowyn plummeted more than ...
October 28, 1996 – As an extratropical storm, Hurricane Lili moved across Ireland and the United Kingdom, producing winds up to 148 km/h (92 mph) in Swansea in Wales. The storm left thousands without power and damaged about 500 cottages. A storm surge flooded areas along the River Thames, and high waves nearly grounded an oil rig in Somerset.