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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.
UK must get prepared for extreme weather like Storm Darragh, climate chief warns . Victims of flood struggle to contact National Grid. Sunday 8 December 2024 20:33, Tom Watling. A woman near Exton ...
December 7, 2024 at 8:10 PM. Storm Darragh wreaked havoc across the UK on Saturday, with two people killed, ... Britons were already counting the cost of the damage from Darragh. Strong winds ...
December 7, 2024 at 8:14 PM. Winds reaching more than 90mph have left tens of thousands of homes without power across Wales and the west of England as Storm Darragh lashed the UK.
It was named Xaveria by Free University of Berlin, on 5 December 2024. [112] Darragh prompted the issuance of amber wind warnings for southwestern Scotland, Wales and western English counties including Devon and Cornwall and Northern Ireland, in the amber warning areas, the Met Office says, Storm Darragh will bring strong winds on Saturday ...
As of 2024, 96 storm names have been retired. [1] The naming of North Atlantic tropical cyclones is currently under the oversight of the Hurricane Committee of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). This group maintains six alphabetic lists of twenty-one names, with one list used each year.
Storm Darragh ripped through Wales in December 2024, with heavy rainfall and winds up to 93mph (150km/h) leaving about 95,000 homes without power.
The 2024 Atlantic hurricane season was a very active and extremely destructive Atlantic hurricane season, producing 18 named storms, 11 hurricanes, and 5 major hurricanes; it was also the first since 2019 to feature multiple Category 5 hurricanes.