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The December 2022 United Kingdom cold wave was a spell of unseasonably cold weather that affected the United Kingdom between 8 December and 18 December. It was considered to be one of most significant spells of low temperatures since the winter of 2010–11, with overnight temperatures widely falling below −10 °C (14 °F) on several occasions. [1]
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In 2006, Stav applied to join the BBC Weather Centre as a presenter. He joined the team and began presenting forecasts in February 2007. He began presenting weather for regional BBC news programmes such as Reporting Scotland. He has also done presenting work in Newcastle, Northern Ireland and Birmingham. Danaos joined the BBC's national news ...
The first BBC weather forecast was a shipping forecast, broadcast on the radio on behalf of the Met Office on 14 November 1922, and the first daily weather forecast was broadcast on 26 March 1923. In 1936, the BBC experimented with the world's first televised weather maps, brought into practice in 1949 after World War II. The map filled the ...
On his December 28 2024 BBC Radio 6 show, Gilles Peterson paid tribute to “100 years of The Shipping Forecast” playing “Seamus Heaney The Shipping Forecast - Poem”. On 1 January 2025 BBC Radio 4 broadcast a series of programmes under the title "Shipping Forecast Day", to mark the start of a year of [ 32 ] celebrations of the centenary ...
Storm Darragh (known as Storm Xaveria in Germany) [1] was a powerful extratropical cyclone which severely impacted Ireland and the United Kingdom in December 2024. The fourth named (using the western group naming list) storm of the 2024–25 European windstorm season, Darragh was named by the UK Met Office on 5 December 2024.
An extreme weather warning was issued for southern areas for overnight snowfall which could have brought accumulations from 25 to 40 centimetres (9.8 to 15.7 in). [38] BBC Weather and the Met Office also warned that temperatures in the Highlands of Scotland could drop to −20 °C (−4 °F) later in the week.
December 2010 has the lowest CET, −0.7 °C (30.7 °F), [53] since a CET of −1.1 °C (30.0 °F) was recorded for February 1986. December 2010 can also be confirmed to be the coldest December for 120 years, since a monthly CET of −0.8 °C (30.6 °F) was recorded for December 1890 and the second-coldest December since records began in 1659.