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The following list of disasters in Great Britain and Ireland is a list of major disasters (excluding acts of war [a]) which relate to the United Kingdom, Ireland or the Isle of Man, or to the states that preceded them, or that involved their citizens, in a definable incident or accident such as a shipwreck, where the loss of life was forty or more.
For natural disasters in the British Isles, see: ... List of natural disasters in Ireland This page was last edited on 9 February 2024, at 20:46 ...
The winter of 2010–2011 brought heavy snowfalls, record low temperatures, travel chaos and school disruption to Great Britain and Ireland. It included the UK's coldest December since Met Office records began in 1910, with a mean temperature of −1 °C (30 °F), breaking the previous record of 0.1 °C (32.2 °F) in December 1981.
Somewhere between 310,000 and 480,000 people starve in Ireland due to cold weather affecting harvests. 1816–19: Typhus epidemic: Outbreak in Ireland. 1839: Night of the Big Wind: A European windstorm swept across Ireland causing hundreds of deaths and severe damage to property. Gusts were over 100 knots (190 km/h; 120 mph). 1840s: Great ...
The scandal is widely seen as the deadliest disaster in the history of Britain’s state-run National Health Service since its inception in 1948. ... This report today brings an end to that. It ...
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.
List of disasters in Great Britain and Ireland by death toll; E. List of earthquakes in the British Isles; F. List of floods in Sheffield; L.
Anticyclone Hartmut (dubbed the Beast from the East (Irish: An Torathar ón Oirthear) [5] [6] [7]) was a storm that began on 22 February 2018, and brought a cold wave to Great Britain and Ireland. Anticyclone Hartmut also brought widespread unusually low temperatures and heavy snowfall to large areas. [8]