The UK hasn't seen a single named storm so far this autumn and winter. But why?
By February, the UK would normally have had around three storms given names by the Met Office - just like Arwen, Barra and Callum. But so far this autumn and winter, there hasn't been a single one.There are a number of factors at play - and the forces behind this year's lack of storms were also instrumental in December's cold snap.
The busiest autumn/winter season was 2017/18, when a total of seven named storms had hit the UK by the start of February.making the sky orangeDuring February 2022, three storms were named within a week. Dudley, Eunice and Franklin impacted hundreds of thousands of homes. Windstorms in the UK are usually caused by little wobbles in an active jet stream over the Atlantic directed towards northwest Europe.
The UK's lack of named storms this season is likely to be due to the position of the Polar jet stream, a ribbon of strong winds high in the atmosphere that create and drive weather systems across the Atlantic to northwest Europe.
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