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The 2013–2014 United Kingdom winter floods saw areas of the United Kingdom inundated following severe storms. The south of England saw heavy rainfalls associated with these storms which caused widespread flooding, power cuts and major disruptions to transport. Economically, the worst affected areas were Somerset, Devon, Dorset and Cornwall in ...
BBC News provides television journalism to BBC network bulletins (on BBC One and BBC Two) and programmes as well as the BBC News Channel available around the world and in the United Kingdom. BBC News runs BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC World Service as part of its rolling news coverage, journalists and presenters also contribute to podcasts produced by BBC News for BBC Radio 4 , as well as solely ...
Damage. £1.3 billion (US$2.1 billion) [ 2] Areas affected. British Isles and parts of Western Europe. The February 2009 Great Britain and Ireland snowfall was a prolonged period of snowfall that began on 1 February 2009. Some areas experienced their largest snowfall levels in 18 years. [ 3] Snow fell over much of Western Europe. [ 4]
A series of extratropical cyclones brought the wettest April to many parts of the United Kingdom. Beginning with the storm Gritt (2–11 April 995 hPa) a low system tracking south over the UK and Ireland bringing storm force winds and heavy snowfall just a week after many areas of the UK experienced temperatures above 20 °C (68 °F). 50,000 people were left without power in Northern England ...
The UK has committed to carbon neutrality by 2050. [14] The target for 2030 is a 68% reduction compared with 1990 levels. [15] The UK has been successful in keeping its economic growth alongside taking climate change action. Since 1990, the UK’s greenhouse gas emissions have reduced by 44% while the economy has grown by around 75% up until ...
On 8 August the UK Health Security Agency issued a level 3 heat health alert for central and southern England effective from 9 to 13 August, which was later extended to 14 August. [ 62 ] [ 63 ] The highest temperature recorded in the UK on 11 August was 34.2 °C (93.6 °F) in Wiggonholt , West Sussex.
BBC South Today, BBC London. Christopher Blanchett (born 1982) is an English broadcast journalist. He works for the BBC, presenting the weather forecast for Reporting Scotland. He has also worked as an assistant producer for the national BBC News Channel .
From 4 February 2015 to 27 December 2019, the programme had a 45-minute format, with a half-hour segment focusing on British national and international news (with an emphasis on the latter), a 12-minute segment of local news from the BBC's Nations and regions across the UK, and concluding with the national weather forecast.