<scp>UK</scp> seasonal weather summary Winter 2025

Winter 2025 saw temperatures above average with a series of lowpressure systems bringing rain, wind and wintry showers across the country.Unusually, the winter included two named storms with red warnings issued for wind.December 2024 was largely unsettled.Storm Darragh on the 6th to 8th was the fourth named storm of the 2024/2025 season, bringing heavy rain and severe gales, especially in coastal areas of Wales and southwest England.Unsettled but generally mild weather continued for the rest of the month.January started colder than average, with an Arctic maritime airmass bringing wintry showers.More settled, colder weather followed, with high pressure mid-month seeing widespread frosts and freezing fog.Storm owyn, on the 24th, brought destructive winds and heavy rain to northwestern parts of the UK, with gusts of over 90mph in the worst affected areas.Overall, this was probably the UK's most powerful wind storm for more than a decade.The month ended with heavy rain and strong winds over southern England and Wales.February began with cold, settled, overcast conditions as high pressure dominated.Scotland saw some snow and freezing rain on the 18th before the blocking high-pressure system to the east started moving away.In the second half of the month, Atlantic low-pressure systems resumed bringing heavy rain to much of the country and coastal gales in northern areas as the cold easterly regime gave way to milder, wetter weather.The end of the month saw building high pressure, settled conditions and widespread frost.UK temperatures overall were above average (anomaly +0.53C), with a warm December (anomaly +2.0C) and February (+0.5C) balancing out the colder than average January (-0.9C).There was a significant cold spell in early January (with -18.9C on the 11th at Altnaharra, Sutherland, and 21cm of lying snow at Loch Glascarnoch, Ross and Cromarty) and a cold period in early