2015-16 United Kingdom Windstorm Season edit
The 2015-16 United Kingdom Windstorm Season was an extremely inactive, only seeing 11 named storms. The highest winds was came from Storm Katie and the lowest pressure was came from Storm Frank.
STORMS edit
Storm Abigail edit
| Category 1 hurricane (SSHS) | |
|---|---|
| Formed | 7 November |
| Dissipated | 15 November |
| Highest winds | 1-minute sustained: 150 km/h (90 mph) |
| Lowest pressure | 964 hPa (mbar); 28.47 inHg |
| Areas affected | Northwest Scotland |
Abigail was the first storm to be officially named jointly by the Met Office and Met Éireann on 10 November 2015. A Met Office yellow warning for wind was issues to all of Scotland on 11 November: with amber warnings for the Western Isles, north west Highlands, parts of Argyll and Orkney Abigail was moves across the West Coast of Ireland into a Category 1 storm on the European Windstorm Scale, equivalent to a category 1 hurricane with 90mph.
Abigail brought hurricane-force winds, heavy rain, lightning, and wintry showers across the north and northwest of Scotland, due to the storm surge with high tides. On 12 November, local ferries were affected by bad weather with many services cancelled. It was announced that every school in the Western Isles and Shetland were to be closed to pupils on 13 November. The storm left more than 20,000 homes without power, according to energy company.
Storm Barney edit
| Category 1 hurricane (SSHS) | |
|---|---|
| Formed | 17 November |
| Dissipated | 20 November |
| Highest winds | 1-minute sustained: 140 km/h (85 mph) |
| Lowest pressure | 980 hPa (mbar); 28.94 inHg |
| Areas affected | Ireland Wales, southern and eastern England, Midlands |
A yellow warning for wind was issued by the Met Office for Wales, along with southern, central and eastern England, with gusts of 70 to 80 mph (110 to 130 km/h) expected on 17 November. It affected Ireland, Wales, southern and eastern England and the Midlands, where thousands of homes lost power and rail services were disrupted.
Storm Barney swept across southern parts of the UK brought hurricane-force gusts into a Category 1 storm on the European Windstorm Scale, equivalent to a category 1 hurricane with 85mph.
Storm Barney could bring damaging gusts of wind across southern parts of the UK into fallen trees down and power outages. Barney will be a fast-moving storm, bringing locally strong winds to southern Ireland and the southern U.K. will make flooding problems worse in the regions that were worst-hit over the weekend.
Storm Clodagh edit
| Category 2 hurricane (SSHS) | |
|---|---|
| Formed | 16 November |
| Dissipated | 3 December |
| Highest winds | 1-minute sustained: 155 km/h (100 mph) |
| Lowest pressure | 968 hPa (mbar); 28.59 inHg |
On 26 November saying that despite a prediction of windy weather in the coming days, the weather system was unlikely to become a named storm. Storm Clodagh batters country as severe warning is issued for whole of England and Wales. In the UK and Ireland, Clodagh's impact was most severe in Ireland and North West England. In the Republic of Ireland 6,000 people were left without power. Britain is set to face heavy wind, rain and possible snow as Storm Clodagh crashes into the coastline from the Atlantic.
Storm Clodagh was brought very strong gust of winds up to 97mph as a Category 2 storm on the European Windstorm Scale, equivalent to a category 2 hurricane with 100mph. Britons are braced for more lashing rain as flood warnings were issued for parts of the country as Storm Clodagh wreaked havoc.
Flights were diverted, trains delayed and traffic held up on motorways at the weeknd as heavy rain and strong winds hit Scotland and the north west of England. In the Republic of Ireland, the areas hit by power cuts include Cratloe, County Limerick, where 449 customers were affected; Buncrana, County Donegal where there were 269 outages and 185 customers were without electricity in Clonminch, County Offaly. The Met office issued yellow warnings for wind and rain in Cumbria, as Clodagh, the third major storm of the season impacted the North West.
Storm Desmond edit
| Category 1 hurricane (SSHS) | |
|---|---|
| Formed | 3 December |
| Dissipated | 8 December |
| Highest winds | 1-minute sustained: 130 km/h (80 mph) |
| Lowest pressure | 939 hPa (mbar); 27.73 inHg |
Storm Desmond was an extratropical cyclone and fourth named storm of the 2015–16 UK and Ireland windstorm season. Desmond directed a plume of moist air, known as an atmospheric river, which brought record amounts of rainfall to upland areas of the UK and subsequent major floods. On 5 December, the Met Office issued a red severe weather warning for rain in Cumbria. The Environment Agency had severe flood warnings in place for parts of the River Tyne in Northumberland and across Cumbria. Landslides and flooding closed some main roads in Scotland and counties down and Tyrone suffered road closures from fallen trees caused by hurricane force gusts.
The forecasted central pressure is 939mb with winds of 90 knots, deepening to a Category 4 hurricane, equivalent to a Category 2 storm on the European Windstorm Scale with 100mph winds. The low is then forecast to slowly fill and lift north-eastward, giving way to a continued very active, and a very intense low pressure system is moving to track over the next several days across the Atlantic. The central pressure of the low was analyzed to 939mb into the Category 4 hurricanes with one of the most powerful extratropical cyclones across the North Atlantic Ocean. A fierce cyclone, wet Atlantic storm soaked parts of England, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Ireland and Norway with flooding rain, storm surge flooding and winds locally over 100mph during the weekend.
More than 30 severe storm warnings indicating danger to life were issued in Cumbria, Northumberland, Lancashire and Yorkshire has been issuing a red warning. Storm Desmond flooding putting 'lives at risk' as government issues severe 'red alert' warnings. Landslides, car accidents and floods all cause chaos as storm rages across the UK, due to the storm surge flooding with severe weather warnings. . Cork County Council has announced that a number of roads are flooded and further closures are expected due to heavy rainfall with flooding rain.
Storm Eva edit
| Category 1 hurricane (SSHS) | |
|---|---|
| Formed | 22 December |
| Dissipated | 25 December |
| Highest winds | 1-minute sustained: 140 km/h (85 mph) |
| Lowest pressure | 964 hPa (mbar); 28.47 inHg |
Storm Eva was the fifth named storm of the Met Office and Met Éireann's Name our Storms project. Heavy rainfall from Eva occurred around three weeks after Storm Desmond had brought severe flooding to parts of Northern England, exacerbating the ongoing situation. Eva was the fifth storm to be officially named by Met Éireann on 22 December 2015, with an orange wind warning being issued for counties Clare, Galway, Mayo, Sligo and Donegal. There were fears that the storm could cause further disruption to Cumbria in England, where areas were already dealing with the aftermath of flooding from Storm Desmond and in some cases had been flooded twice already. The army and Environment Agency staff were called in to be on stand-by to bolster flood defences. Almost 150 flood warnings issued as up to 120mm of rain set to fall in north of England, worsening situation in areas already saturated by extratropical cyclones.
Storm Frank edit
| Category 1 hurricane (SSHS) | |
|---|---|
| Formed | 28 December |
| Dissipated | 3 January |
| Highest winds | 1-minute sustained: 140 km/h (85 mph) |
| Lowest pressure | 928 hPa (mbar); 27.4 inHg |
Frank was the sixth storm to be officially named by the Met Office on 28 December 2015, and brought severe gales to western parts of the UK as well as persistent, heavy rainfall. It caused some disruption over Northern Ireland, west and southwest Scotland, northwest England and Wales on 30 December.
The Joint Cyclone Center predicted that Storm Eva was strengthens to a Category 3 storm on the European Windstorm Scale, equivalent to a category 3 hurricane with estimated sustained winds up to 120mph and a minimum central pressure of 928mb that could also be the same of the equivalent into a category 4 hurricane. Eva was moves across the South west coast of Iceland and dropping to a Category 2 storm with 105mph. The torrent of flood water that ripped through communities, including on Huntington Road in York
Storm Gertrude edit
| Category 2 hurricane (SSHS) | |
|---|---|
| Formed | 29 January |
| Dissipated | 5 February |
| Highest winds | 1-minute sustained: 165 km/h (105 mph) |
| Lowest pressure | 948 hPa (mbar); 27.99 inHg |
On 28 January, the Met Office released news of the seventh named storm, Gertrude. In the release, they forecast a deepening area of low pressure to pass close to the north of Scotland on the night of 29 January, accompanied by a powerful jet stream from the Atlantic. It was anticipated that Scotland and Northern England would experience gales or severe gales (60–70 mph widely; possible 80 mph) with the Northern Isles "likely" to reach storm force winds (widely 70–80 mph, occasionally 90 mph).
Winds were expected to strengthen and create the risk of blizzard conditions, especially over high ground in the north of Scotland. There remains some uncertainty over the exact track and intensity of the storm, however there was higher confidence now on the forecast of very strong winds and storm force winds in the Northern Isles with the equivalent of a Category 2 storm on the European Windstorm Scale with 105mph. There were also power cuts across Scotland and Northern Ireland.
Storm Henry edit
| Category 1 hurricane (SSHS) | |
|---|---|
| Formed | 1 February |
| Dissipated | 2 February |
| Highest winds | 1-minute sustained: 150 km/h (90 mph) |
| Lowest pressure | 944 hPa (mbar); 27.88 inHg |
On 30 January, the Met Office released news about the eighth named storm of the season, Henry. It was forecast to bring heavy rain and very strong gusts of wind across Scotland, northern England and northern Wales on 1–2 February, particularly into the night of 1 February.
It was anticipated to bring gales across north Wales and north England, and severe gales across Scotland, most notably in the western isles, which was expected to bring gusts of up to 90mph, resulting in amber wind warnings being issued. Localised flooding, transport disruption and issues with power supplies were expected, along with storm large waves being an additional concern.
Storm Imogen edit
| Category 2 hurricane (SSHS) | |
|---|---|
| Formed | 7 February |
| Dissipated | 8 February |
| Highest winds | 1-minute sustained: 155 km/h (100 mph) |
| Lowest pressure | 962 hPa (mbar); 28.41 inHg |
They warned of the risk to trees, structures, interruption of power supplies and transport, especially the M4 and M5 motorways. On 8 February Storm Imogen brought trees down, produced large coastal waves, caused power cuts and toppled high-sided vehicles across southern England and Wales with hurricane force wind gusts up to 75-80mph in some exposed locations. Joint Cyclone Center shows the storm's expected path across the south east and into northern France and Germany later this evening on the dated of 7-8th February 2016. Storm Imogen brought strong winds mainly affecting south Wales and southern England. The winds associated with Storm Imogen were strongest across southern England and south Wales where widespread travel delays occurred and 3,000 homes were left without power.
The strongest winds were gusts up to 96mph in Needles, Isle of Wight dated on 8th February 2016. More than a thousand homes are still without power after Storm Imogen brought heavy rain and winds of up to 96mph to parts of southern Britain into a Category 2 storm on the European Windstorm scale, equivalent to a category 1 and 2 hurricane with 95-100mph. A cyclone, named "Imogen," will bring some very strong winds across the southern parts of Britain with hurricane-force gusts could bringing some damage and some coastal flooding, due to heavy rainfall with flooding rain.
Storm Jake edit
| Category 1 hurricane (SSHS) | |
|---|---|
| Formed | 1 March |
| Dissipated | 4 March |
| Highest winds | 1-minute sustained: 130 km/h (80 mph) |
| Lowest pressure | 989 hPa (mbar); 29.21 inHg |
Jake was named by Met Eireann on 1 March based on an amber warning of strong winds for counties Galway, Mayo, Clare, Cork, Kerry and Limerick. Strong winds were experienced in much of the Republic of Ireland and also Wales and south-west England on 2 March. There were power cuts and trees blown down in parts of Wales. Disruption was also experienced in parts of south-west England with hurricane-force gusts in some exposed locations.
Storm Katie edit
| Category 2 hurricane (SSHS) | |
|---|---|
| Formed | 25 March |
| Dissipated | 28 March |
| Highest winds | 1-minute sustained: 165 km/h (105 mph) |
| Lowest pressure | 971 hPa (mbar); 28.67 inHg |
Katie, the eleventh storm of the season, was named by the Met Office on Good Friday, 25 March. During the first half of Easter Monday, 28 March strong winds were experienced widely across southern England with coastal gusts of 70-80 mph and inland gusts of 50-70mph in many places.
The peak gust of 106mph was recorded at the exposed site of The Needles Old Battery. Impacts were widespread across southern England including trees felled, wall, fence and roof damage, scaffolding collapses, bridge closures, flights, ferries and train cancellations and power outages with storm damage in exposed areas.