Tornado over Cornwall
The twister - a thick tunnel of cloud caused by spiralling wind - was seen over Poundstock near Bude in Cornwall on 6th June 2009.
The photograph was taken by a startled Derrick Prescott, 58, as he flew his model plane in Poundstock, near Bude.
Heaviest snow fall for 20 years hits UK
The heaviest snow fall for nearly 20 years hit London and South East England overnight on 1 February and the capital woke up to over 1 foot of snow in many places.
Roads were made impassible by deep snow over ice and all London's buses were pulled off the streets. The snow was predicted to last all week.
Workers and school children stranded at home took to the parks for sledging and snowballs and snowman building.
Freak Hail storm swamps Ottery St Mary
Deluge of Hailstones buries small town in a river of ice.
Ottery St Mary, in Devon, was plunged into chaos by the storm in the early hours of 30 October 2008. First, the area was battered by an astonishing 12in of hail in just two hours. Then hailstones pelted down burying cars in a sea of ice. This blocked drains, which led to widespread flooding as the rain began to fall.
Earthquake hits Herefordshire and Worcestershire
Crockery was broken and wardrobe doors rattled when an earthquake measuring 3.6 on the Richter scale hit Herefordshire and Worcestershire.
The epicentre was around four miles from Bromyard and police received reports of the quake affecting the area between Malvern and Worcester when it struck just after 6pm.
Freak Weather creates Frost Bow in England
A rare upside down "smiley" rainbow was spotted in the sky over Cambridge in Eastern England last week.
A spokesman for the Met Office confirmed the inverted rainbows are occasionally spotted in British skies.
He said: "It is convex to the sun and is formed by refraction in suitably-oriented ice crystals and may show vivid rainbow colouring, as in this case."
UK rocked by "significant" earthquake
A "significant" earthquake shook the UK in the early hours of 27th February 2008, causing damage to buildings and leaving at least one person injured.
The tremor hit at around 1am and was measured at 5.2 on the Richter scale. Its epicentre was near Market Rasen, Lincolnshire, but the effects of the quake were felt throughout the country.
Twisters ravage southern USA
The storm was part of a swath of violent weather the swept through the U.S. South on Tuesday night, spawning scores of tornadoes from Texas to Indiana and causing at least 48 reported deaths.
Forecasters say the powerful storm front is trailing a "cold side" behind it, packing high winds and heavy snowstorms, which threaten regions from New Mexico to Wisconsin.
East Anglian coast escapes disaster by inches
The tidal surge striking East Anglia and Kent missed the high tide by a matter of minutes, allowing flood defences to hold out. The Environment Agency said if the waters had risen by a further eight inches, it would have caused "utter devastation".
Undular Bore rolls across Iowa
Undular bores are a type of "gravity wave"—so called because gravity acts as the restoring force essential to wave motion.
A series of giant "undular bore waves" were photographed Oct. 3rd 2007 flowing across the skies of Des Moines, Iowa.
Floods subside but misery remains
The filthy brown flood waters may have subsided but the tide of human misery they have left in their wake is relentlessly swelling. Few aspects of everyday life across huge swathes of central England have been unaffected by the unprecedented deluge of last weekend.
It will be many weeks before normality returns.
What on earth is going on with our weather?
What on earth is going on with our weather? Three months’ worth of rain fell in a few places last week, Britain is drowning under floods of biblical proportions and nothing like it has been seen since Noah got his sea legs.
Humanitarian crisis as thousands left wthout power or water across central England
The toll of victims in the worst UK floods in modern history is spiralling towards a million.
With more than 500,000 people without water, power or homes, experts warned that 'the worst is yet to come' from fast-rising rivers. Tens of thousands more families were put on red alert as rivers reached levels not seen for more than 50 years across central, western and southern England.
UK flooded out as "monsoon" rains hit
The monsoon rains which hit the UK on Thursday 18th July, brought further misery to thousands in the Midlands and south west of England as their homes and businesses disappeared under floodwater.
And anger has been mounting at the official response - as it emerged that some areas had 2 days warning of the rain by the Met Office but the Environment Agency apparently had no contingency plans in place.
Flash floods, Tornado hit UK
Residents were evacuated in Filey, North Yorks, yesterday following a flash flood which followed heavy rain.
The village of Tibberton, near Gloucester, was also hit by what locals described as a mini tornado. A half-ton skip was carried 300 yards through the air, a farm building destroyed, trees brought down and electricity supplies cut when the freak wind struck on Tuesday.
Tornadoes touch down in Goucestershire
On Tuesday 17th July 2007 at 11.15am, a twister struck Melkirt Limited a mushroom farm in Tibberton, a village in the Forest of Dean.
The tornado's spout lifted upwards a half-tonne skip and carried it more than 300 yards after it had been sucked up through the roof of the farm building and cast aside into a field.
England battered by Torrential rains, Tornadoes
Over a month's average rainfall fell in the North and East of England in the last 24 hours as storms and tornadoes battered the country.
Update 5 July 2007:"Devastated" Hull pleads for government aid to cope with "one of the worst peace-time disasters to hit the UK".
Council Leader Carl Minns said the bill for repairing flooded schools alone could be as much as 100 million pounds. "Last week a class of children finished their GCSE exams ankle-deep in water," he told BBC radio. "We need tens of millions of pounds of help from the government."
Much of the city still remains under water and across the region up to 30,000 people are still homeless.
2007 The Year of Extraordinary Weather
What an extraordinary year it has been for weather in the UK, so far! Gale force winds in January, one of the warmest Aprils on record and now, officially the wettest June on record with unprecedented flooding in parts of the West Country, Midlands and North of England.
What Next? Raining frogs?
See Weather Watch UK tab for regular updates on the UK floods
Massive Summer storm hits south london
Parts of south London were hit by flash floods following a massive storm that swept across the South East of England on 3 July 2007.
Olivia Young was in Battersea when she saw the storm developing. "We had lots of thunder and then the hail began," she said. "They were really large pieces of hail the size of 20 pence pieces which tore through the sky, ripping leaves from the trees and flowers from plants. I have never seen anything like it."
Calm before the coming storms
Britain is trapped in a barrage of depressions rolling off the Atlantic, loaded with wind and rain.
Driving this wretched weather is the jet stream, a river of wind that snakes around the globe a few miles above our heads. Last weekend it developed a kink that trapped a deep depression over Britain. The weather pattern is reminiscent of that which caused heavy flooding in Central Europe in the summer of 2002.
Boscastle hit by flash floods
After an unprecedently warm April, June has seen the UK hit by storms and torrential rainfall across the country.
In the flood-prone village of Boscastle on the North Cornish coast, which was swept away by a wall of water in 2004, villagers are mopping up after another deluge.
Earth tremor shakes South East England
Parts of Kent in south eastern England were hit by an earth tremor early on 28 April 2007. Sharon Hayles, who lives in the village of Stanford near the Eurotunnel at Folkestone, said her house slid from side to side for about 10 to 15 seconds.
Total Eclipse of the Moon
For the first time since 2004 there will be a total eclipse of the Moon by the Earth visible from the UK. The full eclipse will start at around 9.30p.m. on Saturday night when the moon starts to enter the dark central region of the Earth’s shadow. By 10.45p.m. the moon will be covered and this total eclipse lasts until nearly 11.58p.m.
Worst Storms for Nearly 20 years Batter UK
The worst storms for nearly 20 years swept the UK on 18th January 2007 leaving at least 13 people dead, hundreds of thousands without power, and severe damage to property as gales and heavy downpours hit the UK.
UK the World's Tornado Hotspot
With the amount of media coverage dedicated to American storm-chasers, you'd think the US had the monopoly on these twisters. It doesn't. It might come as a shock, but the United Kingdom is actually the world's most tornado-prone nation.
