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 ...

Several days with temperatures of 10-20 degrees below the historical average could be dangerous to plants and ruin outdoor ...

In February 2022 ... of winter we get in the UK, but these results show that it can even affect the occurrence of stormy spells within the season. 'An intense stratospheric polar vortex can ...

Clusters of powerful winter ... polar vortex (SPV) was driving the risk of the storms, something which had not previously been well explored. They compared seasonal forecasts from January 2022 ...

Clusters of powerful winter ... stratospheric polar vortex - a large spinning mass of cold air in the stratosphere around 15 miles above the Arctic that is prominent during winter months. They ...

Clusters of powerful winter storms have been ... They compared seasonal forecasts from January 2022, which showed the unusually strong state of the polar vortex, with those that suggested it ...