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Hurricane-force winds cause 20 deaths in the Central Belt of Scotland. In Glasgow alone, over 300 houses were destroyed and 70,000 homes were damaged. Electrical power also failed in Glasgow, leaving the whole city in darkness. In total, the storm felled 8,000 hectares of forest across Scotland (1.6 million cubic metres of timber).
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.
This storm was described as the worst in Scotland since the Boxing Day Storm of 1998 by the UK Met Office. [141] Storm Andrea: 3–9 January 2012: 966 hPa (28.5 inHg) [142] Closely following Cyclone Ulli, the first named storm of 2012 formed southwest of Iceland, moving down into the North Sea affecting UK, Netherlands, Denmark and Germany ...
UK storm numbers in 2024. ... “The UK has a history of impactful storms stretching back hundreds of years, long before the introduction of named storms in 2015. ... The Today Show.
The worst hailstorm in British history is the 1697 Hertfordshire hailstorm. The longest tracked hailstorm ever documented in the UK was the 22 September 1935 storm which travelled from Newport, Gwent to Mundesley, Norfolk - a total distance of 335 km (208 mi).
The July 1968 United Kingdom thunderstorms were the most severe dust fall thunderstorms in the British Isles for over 200 years. [1] A layer of mineral dust blowing north from the Sahara met cold, wet air over the British Isles, resulting in thick, dense clouds and severe thunderstorms across most of England and Wales.
This month in Rochester has a long history as being a weather wildcard. Take a look back at some of the worst blizzards and snow, ice and wind storms we've had in the month of March.
It is sometimes claimed that this storm was the worst since the Great Storm of 1703, [10] [44] [45] but this has been challenged as ignoring storms outside the south-east of England. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Storms of this strength regularly form over the North Atlantic, where they typically track to the north of Scotland.