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June. [] On 12 June 2023, heavy rain and thunderstorms caused flooding in Golders Green in north west London. [ 22 ] Watford Junction station was shut causing disruption. [ 23 ] In Staffordshire, the A50 road was shut after a flash flood in the Meir tunnel. [ 24 ]
2024 United Kingdom floods. In 2024, the United Kingdom experienced flooding. In early January, Storm Henk resulted in severe weather warnings and floods across the English Midlands. In April, flooding was widespread across England particularly on the south coast and the North East in the aftermath of Storm Kathleen and Storm Pierrick.
Norway: 22,700+. Part of the 2023–24 European windstorm season. Storm Babet (known as Storm Viktor in Germany) [1] was an intense extratropical cyclone which affected large parts of northern and western Europe. The second named storm of the 2023–24 European windstorm season, Babet was named by the UK's Met Office on 16 October 2023.
A flood is an overflow of water that submerges land that is usually dry. In the sense of "flowing water", the word may also be applied to the inflow of the tide. Floods are an area of study of the discipline hydrology and are of significant concern in agriculture, civil engineering and public health.
Thursday, July 6. 17.23 °C (63.01 °F)[144] July 3–present – Monsoon rainscause record-breaking and destructive floods in North India, killing over 100. [147] July 9 – The capital of India, New Delhi, receives its wettest July day in over 40 years, receiving 153 mm (6.0 in) of rain.
Storm Daniel, also known as Cyclone Daniel, was the deadliest Mediterranean tropical-like cyclone in recorded history, as well as one of the costliest tropical cyclones on record outside of the North Atlantic Basin. Forming as a low-pressure system around 4 September 2023, the storm affected Greece, Bulgaria, and Turkey with extensive flooding.
A flood is an overflow of water (or rarely other fluids) that submerges land that is usually dry. [ 1 ] In the sense of "flowing water", the word may also be applied to the inflow of the tide. Floods are of significant concern in agriculture, civil engineering and public health.
232,112 [8] (estimate for UK only) COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom and COVID-19 pandemic in the Republic of Ireland: 2020–2023 The COVID-19 pandemic caused a worldwide death toll of 6.9 million people. 200,000+ [9] 1557 influenza pandemic: 1557–1561: From 1557 to 1559 the population contracted by 2%. 150,000+ Seven ill years: 1695–99