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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 storm, which affected Northern England, Scotland and Northern Ireland, received little attention from the BBC or the national press. [25] 1976: Gale of January ...
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.
Storms in the UK have been named by the Met Office since 2015, and can often feel back-to-back like this. They are highly unpredictable, but do tend to occur more commonly in the cold seasons.
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 ...
It was described as Central Scotland's worst natural disaster since records began and the worst gale in the United Kingdom. [2] [3] [6] Some said that the damage resembled what happened during the Clydebank Blitz in 1941. [4] 20 people died from the storm, with 9 dead in Glasgow. [7] 700 people were left homeless. [8]
Waves crash onto the shore in Bantry Bay, on the southwest coast of Ireland, on Jan. 24, 2025, as storm Eowyn brings winds over 100 mph to the U.K. and Ireland.
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).
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