The United Kingdom could record its hottest May day in Met Office records on Monday, May 25, with highs forecast to reach 35°C (95°F). Unusually warm overnight conditions have already set a provisional national daily minimum-temperature record for the month of May.
Storm Floris struck the United Kingdom on August 4, 2025, undergoing explosive cyclogenesis and producing widespread wind damage, power outages, and travel disruption. The system reached bomb cyclone status after its central pressure dropped 24 hPa in 24 hours, with peak gusts of 129 km/h (80 mph) recorded around Moray Firth and 106 km/h (66 mph) at Orlock Head — tying Northern Ireland’s August wind record set in 1989.
Storm Éowyn battered Ireland with record-breaking winds on Friday, January 24, 2025, and battered the UK with gusts of over 145 km/h (90 mph), causing more than 700 000 power outages across the regions.
A party boat sank on the River Thames in London, U.K. due to severe weather conditions affecting the country on Thursday, January 4, 2024.
Storm Babet is forecasted to bring heavy rains and severe winds over parts of Ireland on Wednesday, October 18, 2023, and the United Kingdom on Thursday and Friday, October 19 and 20, triggering the UK’s first Red warning for rain since February 2020.
Storm Ali is approaching Ireland, Northern Ireland and northern Britain today forcing authorities to issue wind warnings across the region. This is the first officially named storm by the UK Met Office and Met Éireann for the 2018/19 season. IrelandAli will…
Hundreds of schools are closed across the United Kingdom today, December 11, 2017, in the wake of Storm Caroline which moved away from British Isles December 8 toward Scandinavia. Caroline allowed cold arctic air to move in and cover the UK with bitterly cold…
The center of record-breaking Category 3 Hurricane "Ophelia" is expected to pass to the southeast of the Azores around 00:00 UTC on October 15, 2017 and then head toward Ireland and the United Kingdom. Ophelia is expected to be a powerful extratropical…
