High pressure to deliver a spring-like week
Spring sprang into action across England and Wales at the weekend, with Sunday proving to be the warmest day of the year so far, reaching 20.5C at Gravesend in Kent.
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Spring sprang into action across England and Wales at the weekend, with Sunday proving to be the warmest day of the year so far, reaching 20.5C at Gravesend in Kent.
Winter 2013/14 was exceptionally stormy across the UK, with at least 12 major winter storms battering the country. Heavy rain and flooding were prevalent, causing many records to be broken.
Following the wettest winter on record for the UK, I have no doubt that everyone will be elated at the news that high pressure is going to take residence over us from this weekend.
It is midnight and I am standing in a barn, deep in the west Berkshire countryside, searching for barn owls – the beautiful British birds threatened by rat poison and climate change.
Whilst still a week away and subject to change, there are consistent hints that high pressure will have more of an influence on the UK than it has at any point during the past two months.
Although it has only just announced by the Met Office, it confirms what most of us thought would be the case anyway. This winter has been the wettest on record for the UK, since records began in 1910.
Satellite images, released by Nasa, show a comparison of the Somerset Levels before and after the severe flooding that has taken place.
Tony Blair’s reported words of comfort and advice to Rebekah Brooks just as the News of the World had been accused of hacking into Millie Dowler’s phone will make some feel pretty squeamish.
The Royal Engineers will carry out a high-speed assessment of the state of the UK’s flood defence infrastructure, as ministers admit they should have sent in the military earlier.
A minicab driver dies in central London after her car is crushed by falling masonry and a cruise ship passenger dies after the vessel is hit by a freak wave.
From the storm surge in December through the wettest January on record, Channel 4 News tracks the stormiest winter in memory which has left two people dead and thousands flooded and without power.
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Finally, there looks to be some light at the end of the tunnel, in what has been an exceptional spell of extreme weather. A weakening jet stream will bring less stormy weather next week.
The Environment Agency increases the number of severe flood warnings in place across the south of the UK, and warns that flood problems will continue to hit the UK for another week.