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Storm Dylan

30 December 2017 – 1 January 2018 · 2017-18 season · named by Met Office · Northern Ireland, Scotland, England

77 mphmax gust
112flood warnings & alerts
A New Year's Eve storm with gusts around 77mph that brought down trees in Northern Ireland and south-west England and cut power to over 7,500; mainly a wind event.

Flood footprintstorm total

0severe warnings
8flood warnings
104flood alerts
89areas
55counties
69rivers & seas

Worst-hit areas

  • Christchurch Harbour5
  • River Chew Catchment3
  • Somerset coast at Porlock Weir3
  • West Coast of Dorset3
  • Coast at North Morecambe Bay2
  • East Coast of Dorset2

Counties

  • Dorset Council17
  • Somerset16
  • Devon13
  • Bournemouth9
  • Christchurch and Poole9
  • Surrey7

Rivers & seas

  • English Channel16
  • Bristol Channel7
  • North Cornwall Coast3
  • River Chew, Chew Stoke Stream, Winford Brook3
  • River Medway3
  • Irish Sea2

Flood mapthe storm's flood footprint

Red/amber rings mark rivers that reached or came close to their own high level during the storm — the most direct evidence of likely flooding (the gauge measures the river, not any one property). Solid dots mark each flood area's reference point, coloured by the most severe warning raised there — a warning means flooding was expected. Shaded shapes are the Environment Agency's recorded flood outlines: land actually observed flooded, published retrospectively (updated quarterly). England data only.

The rainstorm-total by gauge

GaugeTotal mm
White Barrow 130.8
Seathwaite Farm 119.2
Honister 110.0
Ennerdale Black Sail 107.2
Brotherswater 102.3
Bellever Dartmoor 101.9
Dartmoor 99.7
Coniston Coppermines 87.3
Littondale 86.6
West Dunkery 85.2
Mickleden Middle Fell Farm 83.0
Demings Moss 82.6

The riverspeak vs warning level

StationPeak% of warning
Mansfield The Dykes · River Maun 3.19 m 319%
Wensor Bridge, Shelton · River Devon 5.40 m 317%
Hundred House Bridge · Royal Military Canal 1.17 m 256%
Burton Bradstock · River Bride 1.33 m 250%
Nunnington · River Riccal 1.07 m 244%
Mountnessing · River Wid 1.01 m 234%
Whitewater Bridge · River Maun 1.85 m 231%
Tubbs Bottom · Bristol Frome 1.35 m 229%
The Causeway · Dimore Brook 1.17 m 215%
Colliters Brook · Colliters Brook 0.98 m 214%
Riseley · River Kym 1.49 m 213%
Frampton Cotterell · Bristol Frome 0.72 m 207%

Gauge records cover 29 December 2017 – 2 January 2018 (the storm window ± a day). Frozen 3 Jul 2026.

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