UK should prepare for more extreme weather, government warns after impact of Storm Arwen
The IndependentSign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Even as people still affected by the storm described it as a “nightmare” and spoke of feeling “abandoned,” ministers suggested such impacts could become increasingly frequent due to the worsening climate crisis. Asked by the shadow climate change secretary, Ed Miliband, if “lessons” had been learned as “extreme weather events will sadly become all the more common in the future”, Mr Kwarteng said his department would “of course be looking at the lessons we can learn from Storm Arwen to build an even more resilient power system in the future”. Mr Kwarteng told the House of Commons: “Storm Arwen brought severe weather including winds of up to 100mph, wind, rain, snow and ice, causing the most severe disruption since 2005. Three people have tragically lost their lives in incidents related to the storm… We’re all working incredibly hard to make sure that normal conditions return.” He also said the weather had hampered efforts to restore power where such high windspeeds had only been recorded twice in the past 25 years, while “much of the damage was in remote, hard to reach places”.
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