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A curated timeline of notable UK windstorms, floods, tornadoes and weather extremes. Each entry links to a record with peak figures, primary references, and post-event imagery joined from external datasets where available.
Amber02 Apr 2026 – 07 Apr 2026
Storm Dave
2025–26 European windstorm season
- 154 kph gust
- 973 hPa min
Amber17 Feb 2026 – 20 Feb 2026
Storm Pedro (Yael)
1 fatalities reported (2025–26 European windstorm season).
- 130 kph gust
- 983 hPa min
Amber02 Feb 2026 – 07 Feb 2026
Storm Leonardo
2 fatalities reported (2025–26 European windstorm season).
- 964 hPa min
Amber26 Jan 2026 – 28 Jan 2026
Storm Chandra
1 fatalities reported (2025–26 European windstorm season).
- 118 kph gust
- 958 hPa min
Red20 Jan 2026 – 25 Jan 2026
Storm Ingrid
2025–26 European windstorm season
- 954 hPa min
Red06 Jan 2026 – 10 Jan 2026
Storm Goretti
2 fatalities reported (2025–26 European windstorm season).
- 212 kph gust
- 969 hPa min
Amber30 Dec 2025
Storm Anna
2025–26 European windstorm season
- 971 hPa min
Amber08 Dec 2025 – 11 Dec 2025
Storm Bram
2025–26 European windstorm season
- 155 kph gust
- 959 hPa min
Amber05 Dec 2025 – 07 Dec 2025
Storm Davide
2025–26 European windstorm season
- 965 hPa min
Red10 Nov 2025 – 17 Nov 2025
Storm Claudia
3 fatalities reported (2025–26 European windstorm season).
- 970 hPa min
Notable26 Oct 2025 – 31 Oct 2025
Storm Lothar
2025–26 European windstorm season
- 988 hPa min
Red22 Oct 2025 – 26 Oct 2025
Storm Benjamin
1 fatalities reported (2025–26 European windstorm season).
- 167 kph gust
- 969 hPa min
Red02 Oct 2025 – 06 Oct 2025
Storm Amy (Detlef)
4 fatalities reported (2025–26 European windstorm season).
- 224 kph gust
- 942 hPa min
Notable14 Apr 2025 – 18 Apr 2025
Storm Darius
2024–25 European windstorm season
Notable27 Jan 2025 – 31 Jan 2025
Storm Ivo
2024–25 European windstorm season
Red24 Jan 2025 – 30 Jan 2025
Storm Herminia
2024–25 European windstorm season
- 134 kph gust
- 948 hPa min
Red21 Jan 2025 – 27 Jan 2025
Storm Éowyn
3 fatalities reported (2024–25 European windstorm season).
- 217 kph gust
- 939 hPa min
Red02 Jan 2025 – 09 Jan 2025
Storm Floriane
2024–25 European windstorm season
- 952 hPa min
Amber20 Dec 2024 – 23 Dec 2024
Storm Enol (Diana)
2024–25 European windstorm season
- 132 kph gust
- 957 hPa min
Notable17 Dec 2024 – 19 Dec 2024
Storm Bianca
2024–25 European windstorm season
- 980 hPa min
Red05 Dec 2024 – 10 Dec 2024
Storm Darragh
4 fatalities reported (2024–25 European windstorm season).
- 155 kph gust
- 977 hPa min
Amber26 Nov 2024 – 29 Nov 2024
Storm Conall
1 fatalities reported (2024–25 European windstorm season).
- 127 kph gust
- 994 hPa min
Red21 Nov 2024 – 26 Nov 2024
Storm Bert
5 fatalities reported (2024–25 European windstorm season).
- 182 kph gust
- 940 hPa min
Notable19 Nov 2024 – 23 Nov 2024
Storm Caetano
2024–25 European windstorm season
- 984 hPa min
Amber16 Nov 2024 – 22 Nov 2024
Storm Quiteria
2024–25 European windstorm season
- 965 hPa min
Red18 Oct 2024 – 21 Oct 2024
Storm Ashley
2024–25 European windstorm season
- 195 kph gust
- 959 hPa min
Red01 Aug 2024 – 06 Aug 2024
Storm Floris
2024–25 European windstorm season
- 200 kph gust
- 973 hPa min
Notable14 Apr 2024 – 16 Apr 2024
Storm Renata (Yupadee)
2023–24 European windstorm season
- 986 hPa min
Notable08 Apr 2024 – 10 Apr 2024
Storm Pierrick
2 fatalities reported (2023–24 European windstorm season).
Red04 Apr 2024 – 08 Apr 2024
Storm Kathleen
2023–24 European windstorm season
- 164 kph gust
- 951 hPa min
Notable02 Apr 2024 – 05 Apr 2024
Storm Olivia
2023–24 European windstorm season
- 987 hPa min
Red26 Mar 2024 – 29 Mar 2024
Storm Nelson
4 fatalities reported (2023–24 European windstorm season).
- 184 kph gust
- 956 hPa min
Notable13 Mar 2024 – 17 Mar 2024
Storm Gabriele
2023–24 European windstorm season
- 986 hPa min
Notable23 Feb 2024 – 29 Feb 2024
Storm Dorothea
2023–24 European windstorm season
- 979 hPa min
Amber22 Feb 2024 – 23 Feb 2024
Storm Louis
1 fatalities reported (2023–24 European windstorm season).
- 138 kph gust
- 960 hPa min
Amber06 Feb 2024 – 10 Feb 2024
Storm Karlotta
2023–24 European windstorm season
- 961 hPa min
Red30 Jan 2024 – 02 Feb 2024
Storm Ingunn
2023–24 European windstorm season
- 249 kph gust
- 941 hPa min
Red22 Jan 2024 – 26 Jan 2024
Storm Jocelyn
1 fatalities reported (2023–24 European windstorm season).
- 225 kph gust
- 947 hPa min
Red19 Jan 2024 – 23 Jan 2024
Storm Isha
4 fatalities reported (2023–24 European windstorm season).
- 199 kph gust
- 956 hPa min
Notable03 Jan 2024 – 06 Jan 2024
Storm Brigitta
2023–24 European windstorm season
- 987 hPa min
Amber02 Jan 2024 – 05 Jan 2024
Storm Henk
2 fatalities reported (2023–24 European windstorm season).
- 151 kph gust
- 970 hPa min
Amber30 Dec 2023
Storm Geraldine
2023–24 European windstorm season
- 966 hPa min
Red26 Dec 2023 – 30 Dec 2023
Storm Gerrit
3 fatalities reported (2023–24 European windstorm season).
- 143 kph gust
- 968 hPa min
Red20 Dec 2023 – 22 Dec 2023
Storm Pia
6 fatalities reported (2023–24 European windstorm season).
- 185 kph gust
- 958 hPa min
Notable09 Dec 2023 – 10 Dec 2023
Storm Elin
2023–24 European windstorm season
- 976 hPa min
Amber09 Dec 2023 – 11 Dec 2023
Storm Fergus
2023–24 European windstorm season
- 124 kph gust
- 965 hPa min
Notable15 Nov 2023 – 21 Nov 2023
Storm Frederico
2 fatalities reported (2023–24 European windstorm season).
- 998 hPa min
Amber12 Nov 2023 – 13 Nov 2023
Storm Debi
2023–24 European windstorm season
- 145 kph gust
- 971 hPa min
Notable09 Nov 2023 – 11 Nov 2023
Storm Elisa
2023–24 European windstorm season
- 988 hPa min
Amber03 Nov 2023 – 05 Nov 2023
Storm Domingos
1 fatalities reported (2023–24 European windstorm season).
- 960 hPa min
Red29 Oct 2023 – 04 Nov 2023
Storm Ciarán
15 fatalities reported (2023–24 European windstorm season).
- 207 kph gust
- 951 hPa min
Notable21 Oct 2023 – 26 Oct 2023
Storm Bernard
2 fatalities reported (2023–24 European windstorm season).
- 986 hPa min
Red16 Oct 2023 – 22 Oct 2023
Storm Babet
15 fatalities reported (2023–24 European windstorm season).
- 976 hPa min
Amber25 Sept 2023 – 29 Sept 2023
Storm Agnes
2023–24 European windstorm season
- 970 hPa min
Notable22 Aug 2023 – 24 Aug 2023
Storm Lilian
2023–24 European windstorm season
- 981 hPa min
Amber04 Jul 2023
Storm Poly
2 fatalities reported (2022–23 European windstorm season).
- 146 kph gust
Amber11 Apr 2023
Storm Noa
2 fatalities reported (2022–23 European windstorm season).
- 156 kph gust
Notable08 Mar 2023
Storm Larisa
2022–23 European windstorm season
Red16 Feb 2023 – 21 Feb 2023
Storm Otto
2022–23 European windstorm season
- 193 kph gust
- 977 hPa min
Red15 Jan 2023 – 17 Jan 2023
Storm Gérard<!--The primary name-->
2022–23 European windstorm season
- 163 kph gust
- 973 hPa min
Amber07 Nov 2022 – 10 Nov 2022
Storm Philomena
2022–23 European windstorm season
- 110 kph gust
- 970 hPa min
Red30 Oct 2022
Storm Cláudio
1 fatalities reported (2022–23 European windstorm season).
- 185 kph gust
- 994 hPa min
Amber22 Oct 2022 – 27 Oct 2022
Storm Beatrice
2022–23 European windstorm season
- 125 kph gust
- 986 hPa min
Amber19 Oct 2022 – 23 Oct 2022
Storm Armand
2022–23 European windstorm season
- 133 kph gust
- 980 hPa min
Amber14 Oct 2022 – 21 Oct 2022
Storm Elke
2022–23 European windstorm season
- 145 kph gust
- 980 hPa min
Notable04 Aug 2022
Storm Antoni
2022–23 European windstorm season
- 999 hPa min
Notable02 Aug 2022
Storm Patrícia
2022–23 European windstorm season
- 981 hPa min
Extreme18 Jul 2022 – 20 Jul 2022· England
July 2022 UK heat extreme
The UK passed 40 degrees Celsius for the first time in the observational record, with Coningsby in Lincolnshire reaching 40.3 degrees on 19 July. Forty-six stations exceeded the previous all-time UK record of 38.7 degrees set in 2019. A national emergency was declared, wildfires destroyed homes in east London and Norfolk, and excess deaths during the heatwave period ran into the thousands.
Red07 Apr 2022 – 13 Apr 2022
Storm Evelyn
2021–22 European windstorm season
- 195 kph gust
- 960 hPa min
Red20 Feb 2022 – 22 Feb 2022
Storm Franklin
2 fatalities reported (2021–22 European windstorm season).
- 149 kph gust
- 952 hPa min
Red14 Feb 2022 – 19 Feb 2022
Storm Dudley
9 fatalities reported (2021–22 European windstorm season).
- 131 kph gust
- 965 hPa min
Red14 Feb 2022 – 20 Feb 2022
Storm Eunice
17 fatalities reported (2021–22 European windstorm season).
- 196 kph gust
- 960 hPa min
Amber29 Jan 2022 – 31 Jan 2022
Storm Corrie
2021–22 European windstorm season
- 150 kph gust
- 986 hPa min
Red28 Jan 2022 – 30 Jan 2022
Storm Malik
7 fatalities reported (2021–22 European windstorm season).
- 236 kph gust
- 965 hPa min
Red05 Dec 2021 – 09 Dec 2021
Storm Barra
3 fatalities reported (2021–22 European windstorm season).
- 156 kph gust
- 957 hPa min
Red25 Nov 2021 – 27 Nov 2021
Storm Arwen
3 fatalities reported (2021–22 European windstorm season).
- 177 kph gust
- 973 hPa min
Red20 Oct 2021 – 23 Oct 2021
Storm Aurore
6 fatalities reported (2021–22 European windstorm season).
- 175 kph gust
- 970 hPa min
Notable06 Feb 2021 – 08 Feb 2021
Storm Darcy
2020–21 European windstorm season
Notable19 Jan 2021 – 20 Jan 2021
Storm Gaetan
2020–21 European windstorm season
Red18 Jan 2021 – 26 Jan 2021
Storm Christoph
2020–21 European windstorm season
- 169 kph gust
- 948 hPa min
Red25 Dec 2020 – 31 Dec 2020
Storm Bella
2020–21 European windstorm season
- 171 kph gust
- 956 hPa min
Notable03 Dec 2020 – 05 Dec 2020
Storm Dora
2020–21 European windstorm season
Notable27 Nov 2020 – 02 Dec 2020
Storm Clement
2020–21 European windstorm season
- 993 hPa min
Amber30 Oct 2020 – 02 Nov 2020
Storm Aiden
2020–21 European windstorm season
- 130 kph gust
- 974 hPa min
Red20 Oct 2020 – 22 Oct 2020
Storm Barbara
1 fatalities reported (2020–21 European windstorm season).
- 216 kph gust
- 990 hPa min
Red30 Sept 2020 – 03 Oct 2020
Storm Alex
16 fatalities reported (2020–21 European windstorm season).
- 186 kph gust
- 967 hPa min
Notable04 Jul 2020 – 11 Jul 2020
Storm Edouard
2019–20 European windstorm season
- 1005 hPa min
Red25 Feb 2020 – 05 Mar 2020
Storm Jorge
2019–20 European windstorm season
- 952 hPa min
Amber13 Feb 2020
Storm Inès
2019–20 European windstorm season
- 132 kph gust
- 976 hPa min
Red11 Feb 2020 – 18 Feb 2020
Storm Dennis
2019–20 European windstorm season
- 225 kph gust
- 920 hPa min
Red08 Feb 2020 – 10 Feb 2020
Storm Ciara
13 fatalities reported (2019–20 European windstorm season).
- 219 kph gust
- 943 hPa min
Notable23 Sept 2019 – 26 Sept 2019
Storm Odette
2019–20 European windstorm season
Red24 Aug 2019 – 27 Aug 2019
Storm Francis
2019–20 European windstorm season
- 161 kph gust
- 979 hPa min
Red18 Aug 2019 – 27 Aug 2019
Storm Ellen
4 fatalities reported (2019–20 European windstorm season).
- 143 kph gust
- 966 hPa min
Amber05 Jun 2019 – 12 Jun 2019
Storm Miguel
2018–19 European windstorm season
- 129 kph gust
- 988 hPa min
Amber25 Apr 2019 – 28 Apr 2019
Storm Hannah
2018–19 European windstorm season
- 132 kph gust
- 984 hPa min
Amber11 Mar 2019 – 14 Mar 2019
Storm Gareth
2018–19 European windstorm season
- 130 kph gust
- 971 hPa min
Amber02 Mar 2019 – 07 Mar 2019
Storm Freya
2 fatalities reported (2018–19 European windstorm season).
- 152 kph gust
- 974 hPa min
Amber07 Feb 2019 – 14 Feb 2019
Storm Erik
2 fatalities reported (2018–19 European windstorm season).
- 138 kph gust
Amber15 Dec 2018 – 17 Dec 2018
Storm Deirdre
2018–19 European windstorm season
- 127 kph gust
- 980 hPa min
Red27 Nov 2018 – 30 Nov 2018
Storm Diana
3 fatalities reported (2018–19 European windstorm season).
- 180 kph gust
- 960 hPa min
Red27 Oct 2018 – 03 Nov 2018
Storm Adrian
12 fatalities reported (2018–19 European windstorm season).
- 189 kph gust
- 977 hPa min
Red10 Oct 2018 – 16 Oct 2018
Storm Callum
2 fatalities reported (2018–19 European windstorm season).
- 122 kph gust
- 938 hPa min
Red20 Sept 2018 – 25 Sept 2018
Storm Bronagh
3 fatalities reported (2018–19 European windstorm season).
- 154 kph gust
- 969 hPa min
Red17 Sept 2018 – 22 Sept 2018
Storm Ali
2 fatalities reported (2018–19 European windstorm season).
- 164 kph gust
- 967 hPa min
Amber16 Sept 2018 – 21 Sept 2018
Storm Helene
2018–19 European windstorm season
- 126 kph gust
- 987 hPa min
Amber13 Jun 2018 – 17 Jun 2018
Storm Hector
2017–18 European windstorm season
- 113 kph gust
- 971 hPa min
Red26 Feb 2018 – 07 Mar 2018
Storm Emma (POR), Ulrike (GER)
95 fatalities reported (2017–18 European windstorm season).
- 228 kph gust
- 963 hPa min
Extreme22 Feb 2018 – 04 Mar 2018· United Kingdom
Beast from the East
A sudden stratospheric warming pulled a bitterly cold easterly airmass off Siberia across the UK, with widespread heavy snow and the lowest March temperatures in decades. The cold spell collided with Storm Emma over the south-west, producing severe blizzards and drifts. At least 17 people died in the UK and economic losses ran into the hundreds of millions of pounds.
- 126 kph gust
- 110 kph sustained
Red23 Jan 2018 – 27 Jan 2018
Storm Georgina
2017–18 European windstorm season
- 225 kph gust
- 959 hPa min
Red17 Jan 2018 – 21 Jan 2018
Storm David (FRA), Friederike (GER)
13 fatalities reported (2017–18 European windstorm season).
- 203 kph gust
- 974 hPa min
Red14 Jan 2018 – 21 Jan 2018
Storm Fionn
2017–18 European windstorm season
- 237 kph gust
- 935 hPa min
Red02 Jan 2018 – 05 Jan 2018
Storm Eleanor
7 fatalities reported (2017–18 European windstorm season).
- 226 kph gust
- 966 hPa min
Amber30 Dec 2017 – 03 Jan 2018
Storm Dylan
2017–18 European windstorm season
- 124 kph gust
- 966 hPa min
Amber06 Dec 2017 – 11 Dec 2017
Storm Caroline
1 fatalities reported (2017–18 European windstorm season).
- 150 kph gust
- 958 hPa min
Red19 Oct 2017 – 23 Oct 2017
Storm Brian
3 fatalities reported (2017–18 European windstorm season).
- 137 kph gust
- 956 hPa min
Red16 Oct 2017 – 20 Oct 2017
Storm Ophelia
3 fatalities reported (2017–18 European windstorm season).
- 191 kph gust
- 958 hPa min
Notable25 Feb 2017 – 03 Mar 2017
Storm Ewan
2016–17 UK and Ireland windstorm season
- 113 kph gust
Red21 Feb 2017 – 26 Feb 2017
Storm Doris
3 fatalities reported (2016–17 UK and Ireland windstorm season).
- 151 kph gust
- 954 hPa min
Amber23 Dec 2016 – 29 Dec 2016
Storm Conor
2016–17 UK and Ireland windstorm season
- 137 kph gust
- 958 hPa min
Red22 Dec 2016 – 27 Dec 2016
Storm Barbara
2016–17 UK and Ireland windstorm season
- 134 kph gust
- 949 hPa min
Red19 Nov 2016 – 22 Nov 2016
Storm Angus
2 fatalities reported (2016–17 UK and Ireland windstorm season).
- 171 kph gust
- 965 hPa min
Red29 Jan 2016
Storm Gertrude
2015–16 UK and Ireland windstorm season
- 169 kph gust
- 948 hPa min
Red29 Dec 2015 – 30 Dec 2015
Storm Frank
3 fatalities reported (2015–16 UK and Ireland windstorm season).
- 137 kph gust
- 928 hPa min
Amber23 Dec 2015 – 24 Dec 2015
Storm Eva
2015–16 UK and Ireland windstorm season
- 135 kph gust
- 964 hPa min
Red04 Dec 2015 – 06 Dec 2015
Storm Desmond
3 fatalities reported (2015–16 UK and Ireland windstorm season).
- 130 kph gust
- 939 hPa min
Amber29 Nov 2015
Storm Clodagh
2015–16 UK and Ireland windstorm season
- 156 kph gust
- 968 hPa min
Amber17 Nov 2015 – 18 Nov 2015
Storm Barney
2015–16 UK and Ireland windstorm season
- 137 kph gust
- 980 hPa min
Amber12 Nov 2015 – 13 Nov 2015
Storm Abigail
2015–16 UK and Ireland windstorm season
- 135 kph gust
- 964 hPa min
Major27 Oct 2013 – 28 Oct 2013· Southern England and Wales
St Jude's Day storm
A rapidly deepening Atlantic cyclone, dubbed the St Jude's Day storm in the British press, swept across southern Britain overnight on 27–28 October. A gust of 99 mph was recorded at the Needles on the Isle of Wight. Four people were killed in the UK and around 625,000 properties lost power.
- 159 kph gust
- 140 kph sustained
- 983 hPa min
Extreme12 Jun 2007 – 25 Jul 2007· England and Wales
Summer 2007 floods
Successive frontal systems and slow-moving convective rain produced the wettest May to July on record across England and Wales. Sheffield, Hull, Gloucestershire and Worcestershire were worst hit, with around 55,000 homes and businesses flooded. Thirteen people died and the total economic cost exceeded three billion pounds. The Pitt Review reshaped UK flood policy in response.
- 414 mm total
Major28 Jul 2005· Birmingham, West Midlands
Birmingham tornado
A short-lived but intense supercell spawned a tornado that tracked through the southern Birmingham suburbs of Kings Heath, Moseley, Balsall Heath and Sparkbrook. Rated T6 on the TORRO scale and F2 on Fujita, it damaged around 1,000 properties and injured 39 people. It is among the most destructive tornadoes recorded in the UK.
- 220 kph sustained
Major16 Aug 2004· North Cornwall
Boscastle flash flood
A near-stationary line of convection dumped close to 200 mm of rain on the catchment above the Cornish fishing village of Boscastle in a few hours. The resulting flash flood tore through the village, destroying around 100 buildings and sweeping more than 80 cars into the harbour. There were no fatalities, owing largely to a major helicopter rescue operation.
- 60 mm/hr peak
- 200 mm total
Extreme25 Jan 1990 – 26 Jan 1990· England, Wales and Ireland
Burns' Day Storm
A vigorous daytime cyclone tracked across the British Isles on Robert Burns' birthday, producing widespread severe gales and structural damage across England, Wales and Ireland. The storm killed 97 people across north-west Europe, with 47 fatalities in Britain, and remains one of the deadliest UK windstorms of the post-war era.
- 173 kph gust
- 170 kph sustained
- 949 hPa min
Extreme15 Oct 1987 – 16 Oct 1987· Southern England
Great Storm of 1987
An explosively deepening cyclone crossed southern England overnight, with hurricane-force gusts widely exceeding 100 mph along the south coast. Eighteen people were killed in the UK and an estimated 15 million trees were felled. The forecasting failure remains a defining moment in UK operational meteorology.
- 196 kph gust
- 185 kph sustained
- 953 hPa min
Extreme31 Jan 1953 – 01 Feb 1953· UK east coast
1953 North Sea flood
A deep North Sea depression combined with a high spring tide drove a destructive storm surge down the UK east coast and into the Netherlands. Sea defences were overwhelmed from Lincolnshire to the Thames Estuary; 307 people died in England and over 1,800 in the Netherlands. The disaster triggered the construction of the Thames Barrier and the Delta Works.
- 230 kph gust
- 200 kph sustained
- 968 hPa min
Figures are best-available public estimates from contemporary Met Office reports, peer-reviewed analyses and the press. Where a measurement was not recorded or has not been digitised, the field is omitted rather than filled with a placeholder.