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Powerful winter storms that battered the UK in recent years were made more likely by an intense vortex of winds high above ...

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Powerful winter storms which led to deaths and power outages in the UK and Ireland were made more likely by an intense ...

The Met Office says there is an 80 per cent chance of sudden stratospheric warming in March, which could bring severe and cold weather ...