Dodging Branches News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

coastal communities are among the worst hit, as this image from christchurch in dorset shows. lots of trees blocking roads. our reporter danjohnson is in st helier injersey and a short time ago sent us this update. it is absolutely battering these silence relentlessly overnight. some people have had a really rough night. i have been said one of the hotels where people have been evacuated. around a0 people have had to be moved from their homes. windows have been smashed, roofs have been ripped off, there were hailstones at one point in the early hours of the morning. rows have been bl...

been very damaging storm, unusually well forecast in this case. all the various computer models that we tend to look at from europe and america in the uk met office, they all seem to be telling the same story with the same sort of placement of this low—pressure system and the intensity of it. usually, there is a bit of uncertainty, different models telling a different story, taking it on a different track. different timings etc. we try and find the line of best fit that we can give the best forecast. in this case it was quite easy because they all sang from the same hymn sheet. whe...