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A beautiful start!

East Anglia has already seen nearly half the normal amount of sunshine for March in just the first six days!

The sun's strength is ramping up in the UK! ☀️ We're now approaching the upper level of 2 on the UV index, which is considered low. Level 3 is classed as moderate and it's often advised we should consider wearing sun screen

Here's today's UV reading from the University of Reading

ARCTIC HISTORIC WARMTH
Temperatures up to +5C in the Svalbard with above freezing minimums (again +2.4 Ny Alesund !).
Records also in Russia
HISTORIC first above freezing temperature (+0.1C Hayes Island) in February in the Franz Joseph Land.
Records coming also in Alaska/Canada

Graphic shows a deep area of low pressure pushing heavy amounts of rainfall to towards western Europe. Named Storm Herminia by the Spanish Met Service it is expected to bring heavy rain fall to the southwest of the UK followed by strong gusts of wind up to 70mph across southern and western coasts of Britain

Currently our attention is drawn to the Atlantic where the next storm (named Herminia by Spanish) will bring up to 80mm of rain in parts of the south & west of UK through Sunday and into Monday, followed by further strong gusts of wind. Although not as powerful as Storm Éowyn

Graphic showing the number of power outages across Northern Ireland

One man sadly died as a tree fell on his car.
For the UK, 77,000 properties are currently still without power with the majority being in Northern Ireland which could take 10 days to get power back online.

Shows a treed felled outside a person's house in Northern Ireland

The storm produced record wind gusts for the Republic of Ireland reaching 114mph (Mace Head), meanwhile 101mph (Drumalbin, Lanarkshire) were recored in the UK. The Met Office believe it was the worst storm for some parts of the UK for 20-30 years.

Graphic show how the warmer waters around the west of Ireland are deep shades of red. This shows temperatures of the oceans were 40-100x more likely due to climate change

🌀#StormÉowyn a thread
A worrying read but early evidence suggest warmer waters in the Atlantic, caused by man-made climate change, helped to intensify #StormÉowyn according to Climate Central

Over half don’t you mean? 🤣

Rise in carbon dioxide off track for limiting global warming to 1.5°C The increase of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO₂) is now incompatible with IPCC pathways which remain below 1.5°C, a Met Office study finds.

🌍 CO2 Forecast 2025: The Mauna Loa observatory predicts a rise in CO2 levels to 426.6 ± 0.6 ppm in 2025. This continues the alarming trend of increasing atmospheric CO2 👉 bit.ly/4ghvdcl

#GetClimateReady #CO2Forecast

After 49 days of darkness, on Wednesday this week the people of Tromsø, Norway saw the sun for the first time since the 26th November. A total of 54 minutes of daylight for them, as the polar night came to an end for another year!

Something you don’t see every day. People in Upware, Cambridgeshire were ice skating on Sunday after five consecutive days of temperatures being below freezing! 🥶
This is a controlled environment where the ice is 4 inches thick - awesome!
📹 Elizabeth Swan
#iceskating #iceskatingfun

🥶 We've some cold chilly nights to come leading to a severe frost in places. These are the expected rural overnight lows for the coming nights for the ITV Anglia region.

Thursday night is likely to be the coldest night of the winter so far

What a contrast in temperatures to start today.
That colder air will spread eastwards through today as the rain and cloud clears up. Keep that woolly pulley to hand this week 🥶

Freezing rain - it's one of the most dangerous winter hazards. We rarely get it in the UK but when it happens it can produce some treacherous conditions.

Find out more in my latest blog post here www.itv.com/news/anglia/...

It’s happening!! #TheTraitors

He’s started!
Crusing at 60,000ft - that’ll be rather cold 😳🎅🏼❄️
#TrackSanta from Flight Radar

Santa flying eastward over far-northern Russia on the Flightradar24 map.

We’ve received word that all presents are loaded and the reindeer are ready. Santa is heading east for the first gifts of Christmas. Follow Santa at www.flightradar24.com/R3DN053/3875...

Happy Christmas Eve EVE!

We’ve done it! Welcome to the #shortestday! From this point forward day length gradually increases and the nights get shorter

Fancy a festive swim this Christmas? 🎅🏊‍♂️
Sea temperatures are around 8 Celsius on the East Coast. This is about a degree warmer than what we would expect at this time of year

🎄CHRISTMAS DAY FORECAST 🎄

Mild. Dry. Light winds for most. Breezy in the north and across Scotland. Could be rather cloudy.

Doesn’t look to be a white Christmas this year.

Are you dreaming of a #whiteChristmas? The latest weather models are painting a clearer picture of what we could expect to see. I explain more here
www.itv.com/news/anglia/...

I was going to say Happisburgh

Hmmm I’m not sure! Where!?

Sky chart with 2 positions of the round moon near the slanted green ecliptic line, and dots for Jupiter and stars.

Full moon fell at 9:02 UTC on Sunday morning. The moon will be past full in your sky tonight but it is still near Jupiter and moving closer to Castor and Pollux. Read more at: https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/visible-planets-tonight-mars-jupiter-venus-saturn-mercury/

Don’t worry. Brighter days are ahead :)

Another day of very little sunshine, here's the earlier satellite imagery from space
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