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Public Health Wales analysis found 98.1 deaths a day in Wales on days covered by a Met Office extreme heat alert in summer 2022, against 84.3 on days with no alert, during heat events in July and…
The Met Office issued a Yellow Thunderstorm Warning for parts of the Southeast for Wednesday 20 July 2022, as the first ever Red Extreme Heat warning remained in place after UK temperatures passed…
The Met Office issued its first ever heat related red weather warning for Suffolk for 18 and 19 July 2022, with temperatures in the county reaching almost 40 degrees, Suffolk County Council said.
The Met Office extended an Amber Extreme heat warning to cover Sunday 17 and Monday 18 July 2022 for much of England and Wales, with temperatures possibly above 35°C in the southeast and around 32°C…
The Met Office issued its first ever Red warning for extreme heat during the July 2022 heatwave, after its longest-range Amber warning with a six day lead time, as temperatures reached 40.3°C at…
The Met Office issued the UK's first ever Red Extreme Heat warning for parts of England, with an Amber warning covering much of England, Wales and southern Scotland, as temperatures exceeded 40°C for…
Suffolk County Council has confirmed that parts of the county reached up to 39C in mid-July 2022 and received its first-ever red weather warning, with firefighters attending more than 500 outdoor…
The final reports into the response to Storm Arwen have been published, setting out actions to improve electricity network resilience, with three network operators agreeing to pay an additional £10.28…
Ofgem has published its final report into how electricity distribution network operators responded to Storm Arwen, with recommendations on resilience, communication, compensation and winter planning.
Ofgem has published a GHD technical review of how the electricity distribution network operators prepared for and responded to Storm Arwen, which cut power to just under one million homes in November…
Storm Franklin passed to the west of Scotland on 21 February 2022, bringing sustained gales to Northern Ireland and north-west England and hampering clean-up work after Storm Eunice.
Suffolk Resilience Forum declared a major incident as Storm Eunice brought gusts of up to 80mph on 18 February 2022, closing the Orwell Bridge in both directions and suspending rail services.
Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks kept its weather warning in place for the north of Scotland on 17 February 2022, with gusts of up to 75mph forecast for the Western Isles, Inner Hebrides and…
A gust of 122mph at Needles Old Battery on the Isle of Wight during Storm Eunice on 18 February 2022 set a new England gust speed record, the Met Office says.
The Environment Agency has urged flood risk communities on the north coast of Cornwall, Devon and Somerset to prepare for a tidal surge from Storm Eunice expected on Friday morning.
The Met Office issued a red warning for strong winds from Storm Eunice, with the Environment Agency warning of a tidal surge and severe flooding in the Severn and Wye estuaries.
The Met Office named storms Dudley and Eunice on 14 February 2022, the first time two storms have been named at once since the UK storm naming scheme began in 2015.
Ofgem has published its interim report into the network companies' response to Storm Arwen, setting out the areas it will investigate further before a final report in spring 2022.
Storm Malik, named by the Danish Meteorological Institute, was forecast to bring winds above 70mph to the west and north west of Scotland and gusts of 80mph to Shetland, with a second front following…