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The most severe red warnings in the U.K., indicating a possible threat to life, covered Northern Ireland and the far north of England and south and central Scotland, but the amber warning area ...
A deep area of low pressure swept across the United Kingdom bringing gusts in excess of 90 mph (140 km/h) and severe flooding to Southern England, it was the strongest system of its kind to hit the UK since the Burns Day Storm of 1990. Contributing to the Autumn 2000 western Europe floods. Janika: 13–16 November 2001: 980 hPa (29 inHg)
On 7 September 1995, Scilly Isles, reported a low pressure of 966 hPa. [87] The lowest minimum recorded values for the months May to August lie within 0.5 of 968 hPa. The 20th century low pressure record in the UK occurred on 20 December 1982 at Sule Skerry: it may have dropped as low as 936 hPa. [88]
In meteorology, a low-pressure area, low area or low is a region where the atmospheric pressure is lower than that of surrounding locations. It is the opposite of a high-pressure area . Low-pressure areas are commonly associated with inclement weather (such as cloudy, windy, with possible rain or storms), [ 1 ] while high-pressure areas are ...
From there, that low has rapidly intensified over the North Atlantic and spread into Ireland and the U.K. as an intense "bomb cyclone". This means the storm's low pressure has dropped by at least ...
The university subsequently started to name every area of high or low pressure within its weather forecasts, from a list of 260 male and 260 female names submitted by its students. [ 26 ] [ 27 ] The female names were assigned to areas of low pressure while male names were assigned to areas of high pressure.
[219] [failed verification – see discussion] The Met Office also issued a yellow rain warning accompanying the wind warning, this warning covered the south-west of England, Wales, the Midlands the south and parts of the south-east of England, as well as the London area. Expected totals were expected to be around 10–20 mm, with locally ...
[26] [29] Regardless of its status, Debbie produced among the lowest pressures in Europe from a post-tropical cyclone, with a pressure of 950 mbar (28 inHg) reported between Ireland and Scotland. At Malin Head in northwestern Ireland, a gust of 183 km/h (114 mph) was reported, which was the highest gust in a survey of post-tropical cyclones ...