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Storm Dennis 2020: Menacing Cyclone-bomb grasps the North Atlantic— landslides and travel chaos

Storm Dennis 2020: Menacing Cyclone-bomb grasps the North Atlantic— landslides and travel chaos.

UK Storm Denis; a menace; identified as a “weather bomb” according to the national weather service of Great Britain, devastating the UK continually. The Meteorological officials determined the storm as a weather bomb because the air pressure decreased by a certain measure in 24 hours, causing massive turbulence and high wind speed.

The storm’s unleashed wind power of 91 miles per hour stranded 1200 miles wide — boasted its citizens with many casualties. The severe weather condition’s impact caused much chaos to different areas of England, Wales, and Scotland; anyhow, most of those areas are still recovering from the previous storm Ciara which called as Sabine in German-speaking countries.

The residents of the affected areas have been rescued and advised by the British soldiers and flood wardens. Many residents have urged to evacuate to safer premises due to life-threatening floods and stubborn winds. However, many roads and pavements have been swallowing by the colder rivers; flowing faster than last week itself.

The chief meteorologist at the Met Office said,

We are urging people to follow the safety advice from officials and to keep a close eye on the latest Met Office weather warnings.

Andrew Pearce from the Environment Agency said,

We have concerned the storm Dennis is gonna be at least severe as storm Ciara, and there are consequences that we are deploying all of our mobiles and pumps, all of our temporaries defend across the country.

The recent update of Storm Dennis 2020 floods reported as a woman found dead after falling into a strongly flowing river in Worcestershire. West Mercia Police have confirmed the body of the woman in her 50s found near Tenbury, supposedly, she was swept into floodwater, when her car became stuck.

If witness any major incident, please dial 101 and inform to the officials.

IT failure disruption at the Heathrow AirPort

Thousands of holidaymakers are overtaken by travel chaos as flights had cancelled and delayed due to the UK Storm Dennis. By the Sunday morning, approximately about 170 flights had cancelled along with 20 British Airways Flights.

British Airways recently posted on Twitter for a response to a customer,

We’re aware Heathrow Airport is currently experiencing a technical issue that is impacting some of their IT systems across the airport, affecting a number of airlines. We are working with them to resolve the issue as a priority and apologise for the delay to our customers.

The airline additionally stated that most of the flight cancellations are due to Heathrow Airport’s technical issues caused by the Storm Dennis. However, the airline is offering a refund or rebooking for most of the passengers due to inconvenience. And, the airline is willing to provide overnight accommodation for guests who experienced unnecessary disturbance.

Warned areas

  • Teme, including for Tenbury Wells and Burford and Eardiston in Worcestershire, and the river is approaching record levels.
  • Little Hereford and Ashford Carbonell near the Herefordshire border and Ludlow in Shropshire have warned.
  • The River Ouse at Acaster Malbis, Bishopthorpe, Naburn, Naburn Lock.

UK Met Office forecast for the next 05 days

Sunny pauses with winds and showers.

  • Monday the 17th February 2020

Morning

Sunny pauses with a mixture of wind and showers. Showers will be heavy with hail and thunder in some places. Northern and western UK and the south coast of England will get heaviest and frequent wind and showers.

Night

Winds with clear periods and more showers, especially in the north and west. Showers will be somewhat heavy, and Northern hills will be wintry.

  • Tuesday the 18th February 2020

Regular winds with a mixture of sunny pauses and showers, heavy at times with hail and thunder in few places. Chilly weather.

  • 19th Wednesday to 21st Friday (02/2020)

Dry start on Wednesday. The rain will be spreading towards the east, and heavy in western areas. Clearing to sunshine and showers on Thursday. Further rain will be spreading southeast on Friday with gales developing across many places.

Please make sure to stay up to date of Storm Dennis 2020 UK through the Met Office UK.

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