UK Winter Storms 2013/14
- Created by: awesome_goat
- Created on: 31-05-18 14:49
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- UK Winter Storms
- Causes
- Powerful Jetstream
- Low pressure systems over Atlantic
- High Pressure over Norway -> all low pressure storms over UK
- Key Facts
- >12 major Winter storms
- Stormiest period in 20yrs
- mid-Dec to early Jan & late Jan to mid-Feb
- Management
- MET Office fllood warnings
- Flood defenses, e,g, Thames Barrier
- Emergency rest shelters
- Social Impacts
- Coastal and Inland flooding
- 3 deaths due to traffic accidents & falling masonry
- Rail networks closed
- 100000 homes without power
- Economic Impacts
- £1.3bn in UK & Wales
- 91% of damages were in England
- 25% of cost was residential properties
- 21% of cost was businesses
- Environmental Impacts
- Coastal erosion
- Fallen trees
- River Severn floodplain inundated
- Beach profile altered
- Agriculture affected
- Causes
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