Nazaneen Ghaffar

Chantal made landfall as a tropical storm early on Sunday. Heavy rains led to widespread flooding in central North Carolina.

“Ideal” conditions are expected in the Northeast, but Florida and the Carolinas are warily eyeing a potential tropical system.

A dust storm clogged the sky this week, days after flooding devastated another part of the same region.

A warm spell could enable the UK to break its record March temperature of 25.6C (78F) next week. Air flowing up from the continent will bring conditions similar to those in southwest France and southern Spain on Monday and Tuesday. Temperatures are forecast to get very close to the record figure, set in Mepal, Cambridgeshire, in 1968. London is most likely to see such unseasonal March conditions, along with areas just north of the capital. The warmth will be relatively widespread, however, with…

Meteorologically speaking we are less than one week away from the start of spring, but despite recent mild conditions the weather is set to turn cold again and it could last into next month. It is all due to the change in wind direction from high pressure that is currently centred over northern Britain, slowly moving north-eastwards towards Scandinavia. As a result, easterly winds will develop, spreading cold air from western Russia towards the UK. Temperatures there are as low as -23C (-9F). Te…

The remnants of two Atlantic hurricanes could hit the UK and Ireland by the end of the week, bringing stormy weather. Hurricanes Lee and Maria are currently heading towards us, according to the latest models from the Met Office. It’s not unusual for weather systems like these to head north out of the tropics and to our shores. But the waters of the North Atlantic are too cool to sustain a hurricane, so they lose their source of energy and rapidly weaken. Despite this, the systems will still cont…

Parts of Scotland and northern England could see up to 150mm of rain in the next two days as the sixth named storm blows in.

Temperatures will drop 10C lower than the mild weather we have seen in recent weeks with hail, sleet and snow in some areas.

The Met Office issues warnings for strong winds in Scotland, with damaging 90mph gusts possible in the far north and northwest.

Outbreaks of rain across Scotland on Sunday morning, with heavy downpours over the northwest again.