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Storm Gertrude

29 January 2016 · 2015-16 season · named by Met Office · Scotland, Northern Ireland

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105 mphmax gust
48flood warnings & alerts (England)
Storm-force winds gusting 105mph at Lerwick battered the Northern Isles, forcing bridge closures, ScotRail cancellations and around 10,000 power cuts; chiefly a wind event for Scotland and Northern Ireland.

Flood footprintEnvironment Agency warning history, England · storm total

0severe warnings
3flood warnings
45flood alerts
48areas
29counties
39rivers & seas

Counted from the Environment Agency's warning record for England (28–29 January 2016). 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

  • Combe Haven1
  • Cuckmere River1
  • Eastern Yar1
  • Exmoor Rivers1
  • Groundwater flooding in Finchdean, Dean Lane End and Rowlands Castle1
  • Groundwater flooding in Hambledon1

Counties

  • West Sussex8
  • Somerset7
  • Devon7
  • East Sussex7
  • Westmorland and Furness5
  • Hampshire4

Rivers & seas

  • Groundwater4
  • River Eden3
  • Arun2
  • Bristol River Avon2
  • North Sea2
  • River Lynher2

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

GaugeTotal mm
Honister 104.0
Ennerdale Black Sail 77.4
Wet Sleddale 73.6
White Barrow 71.2
Seathwaite Farm 66.8
Brotherswater 64.7
Burnbanks 62.8
Thirlmere St Johns Beck 61.8
West Dunkery 60.2
Dale Head 59.2
Kinsford Gate 52.4
Oareford 52.2

The riverspeak vs warning level

StationPeak% of warning
Abbeymead Avenue · River Twyver 0.81 m 306%
Wensor Bridge, Shelton · River Devon 5.15 m 302%
Brookhouse Farm · Ford Green Brook 2.86 m 301%
Hundred House Bridge · Royal Military Canal 1.27 m 278%
Broom · River Arrow 1.34 m 275%
Cheswick Green · River Blythe 1.35 m 248%
Whitewater Bridge · River Maun 1.86 m 233%
Stoke Prior · River Salwarpe 0.83 m 229%
Solihull Lodge · River Cole 0.95 m 227%
Coney Gut · Coney Gut 1.80 m 221%
Lodsbridge · River Rother 3.93 m 213%
Sprouston · River Tweed 3.26 m 200%

Gauge records cover 28–30 January 2016 (the storm window ± a day). Frozen 3 Jul 2026.

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