A team of researchers from the Met Office and the University of Leeds has pinpointed a new reason for winter storm clusters, such as the trio named Dudley, Eunice and Franklin, which took place within ...

An intense stratospheric polar vortex can now be recognised as a warning ... making landfall in the UK on the 16th, and resulted in the loss of power for thousands of homes across parts of Cumbria ...

Storms Dudley, Eunice and Franklin caused major problems across the UK, with some of the most powerful winds to ... Scientists have said the storms were caused by a “swirling polar vortex” miles above ...

February 2022 was characterised by an extremely strong stratospheric polar vortex (SPV ... there would be intense storms affecting the UK and northern Europe during February 2022.

A series of savage storms that ripped through the UK, leaving four dead, homes flooded and a million homes without power, were made more likely by a "polar vortex", scientists have claimed.

They compared seasonal forecasts from January 2022, which showed the unusually strong state of the polar vortex, with those which suggested it would be close to average strength. Examining the ...

A Polar freeze could send the mercury plummeting as low as a bone-chilling -3C in the coming weeks, long-range weather charts ...

Warm conditions across much of Europe are forecast to give way to periods of unseasonably cool temperatures and stormy weather during April. The first such shift will take place over the weekend ...

which showed the unusually strong state of the polar vortex, with those that suggested it would be close to average strength. Examining the properties of UK storms in these contrasting forecasts ...