Maps depict widespread events, local conditions may vary.
CURRENT EVENTS
UK - Unusually heavy snows in Scotland due to rising sea temperatures. Waters from Oban to Rockall have risen dramatically by up to 1oC in past 15 years.
RECENT EVENTS
w/e 3 NOV 2000
UK - Floods
w/e 10 NOV 2000
UK - Floods. R Ouse peaked at 17 ft 8 in in York.
w/e 17 NOV 2000
UK - Floods: Widespread due to heavy rains & high winds.Cliff falls. Several deaths.
w/e 24 NOV 2000
UK - Floods: England/Wales
w/e 1 DEC 2000
UK - Flood
w/e 8 DEC 2000
Warm Anomoly: 6oC above normal, equivalent to normal April or September temps
UK - Floods & some landslides: England/Wales. Wettest autumn since records began 224 years ago.
UK - Snows: Esp Scotland & Northern Ireland (where heaviest snowfall in 18 years).
w/e 7 JAN 2001
UK - Floods/freeze/landslides: 7 cars swept into the sea in landslide in Wales. Largest landslide for 50 years on Dorset coast; 1 million tons of clay collapsed into the sea. More destruction from a collapse in Devon. Record numbers of landslides.
w/e 4 FEB 2001
UK - Floods: esp in south. Wettest autumn since records began in 1766.
UK - Freeze: widespread
UK - Cliff fall at Dover. 160m section (100,000 tons) collapsed in 2 falls into English Channel. Coastal erosion may by accelerating.
w/e 11 FEB 2001
UK - Floods: widespread in England.
UK - Snows/floods: widespread in north England & Scotland. Severe 3-day long storm in Scotland, used to milder winters in recent years. Ski resorts closed due to high winds.
w/e 4 MAR 2001
UK - Exceptionally severe weather: snowdrifts up to 12 ft deep, 70 mph gales. Temperatures down to -18o C.
Eire - Severe weather
Cold Anomoly: Down to 14oC below normal.
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