Storm Eleanor

2–3 January 2018 · 2017-18 season · named by Met Eireann · Northern Ireland, England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales

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100 mphmax gust

298flood warnings & alerts (England)

A powerful storm with gusts up to 100mph at Great Dun Fell that hit Northern Ireland and Ireland hardest, cutting power to over 150,000 and causing coastal flooding and damage along the Irish Sea coasts and south-west England.

Flood footprintEnvironment Agency warning history, England · storm total

0severe warnings

87flood warnings

211flood alerts

187areas

64counties

80rivers & seas

Counted from the Environment Agency's warning record for England (1–3 January 2018). Welsh warnings are held in a separate record and are not counted here, and FloodRadar only began recording Scottish warnings on 16 September 2026 because SEPA publishes no archive. So this is England's share of the storm, not its total.

Worst-hit areas

North Cornwall Coast from Lands End to Chapel Porth6
Somerset coast at Porlock Weir6
Isle of Wight coast5
Christchurch Harbour4
Coast at North Morecambe Bay4
Mersey Estuary at Warrington4

Counties

Cornwall30
Lancashire27
Somerset24
North Somerset21
Cumberland20
East Riding of Yorkshire19

Rivers & seas

Irish Sea36
Bristol Channel32
English Channel28
Mersey Estuary18
North Sea16
North Cornwall Coast14

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. An unshaded area means no flood was mapped here, which is not evidence none happened: the Environment Agency mapped only some floods, mapping effort rose sharply after about 2000, and surface-water flooding is largely absent from this record.

The rainstorm-total by gauge

Gauge	Total mm
Seathwaite Farm	114.8
Mickleden Middle Fell Farm	99.6
Honister	97.6
Ennerdale Black Sail	94.2
Brotherswater	91.3
White Barrow	80.4
Coniston Coppermines	79.0
Demings Moss	75.4
Thirlmere St Johns Beck	69.6
Wastwater Hotel	68.4
Tow Hill	67.4
Beckermonds	67.4

The riverspeak vs warning level

Station	Peak	% of warning
Wensor Bridge, Shelton · River Devon	5.54 m	325%
Hexham Tanners Row Downstream · Cockshaw Burn	0.09 m	290%
Ramshaw Mill · River Gaunless	1.17 m	290%
St Ives · River Great Ouse	0.98 m	277%
Farnham · River Alde	0.65 m	243%
Whitewater Bridge · River Maun	1.85 m	231%
Mountnessing · River Wid	0.98 m	227%
Hundred House Bridge · Royal Military Canal	1.04 m	226%
Brokenborough · Tetbury Avon	1.12 m	225%
Kielder Butteryhaugh · River North Tyne	1.22 m	217%
Colliters Brook · Colliters Brook	0.98 m	214%
Bitton · River Boyd	0.85 m	213%

Gauge records cover 1–4 January 2018 (the storm window ± a day). Frozen 3 Jul 2026.

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