Metro, on Climate, 26 October 2026

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Areas hit by 'danger to life' weather warning mapped after Storm Boelo

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To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Up Next Previous Page Next Page The Met Office has issued new yellow weather warnings for wind, stressing that one of them could present a ‘danger to life’. Storm Boelo is now moving away from the UK, bringing calmer weather after days of rain and wind over the weekend. But this won’t last, as another deep area of low pressure is moving in from the Atlantic.

This is set to hit the northwest of the country on Monday and Tuesday, bringing with it yet more rain and gales. One warning, which comes into effect at 6pm today, affects parts of northwest England, Northern Ireland, southwest England, southwest Scotland and west Wales. This will expire at 3am tomorrow morning. Monday’s weather warning affects Great Britain’s west coast and eastern Northern Ireland (Picture: Met Office) The second warning, in place on Tuesday, could present a ‘danger to life’ (Picture: Met Office) The second yellow weather warning covers all of Scotland and northern parts of Northern Ireland from 3am until 9pm on Tuesday.

This one, the forecaster stressed, could present a ‘danger to life’. ‘There is a small chance that injuries and danger to life could occur from large waves and beach material being thrown onto sea fronts, coastal roads and properties,’ it said. ‘There is a small chance of injuries and danger to life from flying debris.’ The Met Office also said the weather system could cause power cuts, ‘longer journey times or cancellations’, road and bridge closures and ‘damage to buildings, such as tiles blown from roofs, as well as damage to trees’.

The incoming weather system is not expected to be as severe as Storm Boelo, . The inclement weather is far from over (Picture: Maja Smiejkowska/Press Association) Storm Boelo brought rain and wind to much of the country this week (Picture: Maja Smiejkowska/Press Association) However, its effects could be amplified with it following hot on the heels of the previous storm.

It is unclear whether the weather system will become a named storm, but the Met Office have predicted that midweek will bring calmer conditions as an area of high pressure builds close to the UK. Rain will continue into Wednesday, but most of the country is expected to be dry by the end of the day. It comes after Storm Boelo blew through the UK, causing multiple injuries and fatalities. Two pedestrians were rushed to hospital after being crushed by falling scaffolding on Streatham High Road, south London, on Sunday.

Meanwhile, a 60-year-old man was killed by a falling tree in Dumfries, Scotland, just after 10am on the same day. Another man in London was crushed in his car as he drove through Mill Hill at 12.40am.

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What we found (1)

Metro reports new Met Office wind warnings after Storm Boelo, which it says caused flooding, power cuts and several deaths. It never tells its reader that warming makes heavy rainfall like this more frequent and more intense.

  1. Leaves out the climate link

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    “which caused widespread power outages, flooding, and several deaths over the weekend”

    Why this matters
    Metro tells the reader that Storm Boelo caused 'flooding, and several deaths' after 'days of rain and wind', and that another system will bring 'yet more rain and gales'. Nowhere in the piece does it link this run of extreme rainfall and storm damage to a warming climate.
    The impression it gives
    A reader takes the storms, the flooding and the deaths as ordinary bad weather with no connection to climate change.
    The context
    Human-caused warming has made heavy rainfall more frequent and more intense. The article contains no word on this at all, not even one line saying warming makes such downpours worse.

    How we know

    • On the recordThat warming has made hot extremes, heavy rainfall, agricultural and ecological drought, fire weather and intense tropical cyclones more frequent or more severe.ipcc.ch (opens in a new tab)
    • Checked against the whole articleIt never uses the words “climate” and “warming”.
    • Elsewhere in the article“after days of rain and wind over the weekend”

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