Image of a large tree trunk split and damaged by a storm, largely lying on green grass with forest in the background. Text box over translucent square with "Storm Arwen travelled through the valley following the River Eden and the railway... [it] blew down mature trees and around a third of the compartment had to be cleared. In the months following... two further storms... caused more windblown." - Lazonby Estate, Cumbria.

🍃 Storm season is back!

Find resources, info on grants for resilience, and case studies to inspire after storm damage.

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Storm Arwen damage at Hedderwick plantation, Belhaven Bay

Open landscape following storm clear up at Hedderwick plantation

Storm Arwen damage in 2021

Timber stacks following clear up from Storm Arwen

The Hedderwick plantation at #BelhavenBay #EastLothian was largely flattened by #StormArwen in November 2021. The restructuring continues today - creating a much more open landscape ahead of replanting at some point - hopefully with an appropriate #nativetree mix.

Finds from todays woodland blunderings (among the wreckage of #StormArwen 3 years on): Hypotrachyna laevigata (happiest on a felled larch); Graphis elegans; Coniocarpon cinnabarinum; Opposite Leaved Golden Saxifrage flowering already!

Piles of tree trunks stretching off into the distance by a forest track

The legacy of #StormArwen three years later.

So my neighbour’s roof has just blown off again. Twice in three years. #StormArwen then #StormDarragh 😳

10 days of night. I've just re read my previous post regarding Storm Arwen. A bit of an understatement there I believe.  On one of our local upland p...

After #StormArwen 2021 here's what I had seawatching on the #LocalPatch #Patchbirding

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Pre #StormArwen Nov 2021 I blogged a bit about hoping for good seawatching...see also my next post...
#UKBirding

With villages where I live having power cuts for 2 weeks due to #StormArwen not surprising that supermarket shelves were cleared in anticipation of #StormBert
To be fair we just bought alcohol!

#StormArwen Northerners told not to be silly when they suggest this would be different if it were in the south. #stormmalik ditto. #StormEunice wall to wall tv and radio coverage, army on standby, COBRA called. Stay safe everyone.

Sadly, also found three dead adult Puffins along the Bay of Tafts, #Westray this afternoon - likely victims of recent #StormArwen and #StormBarra. #WestrayBirding

Grateful to have family close by with #StormARWEN having cut off electricity for 24 hours now. The power of communities was out in force today, moving trees and helping one another. #BeKind wherever you can 🙏💜

As #StormArwen rages greyly outside, I retreat to the technicolour of wonderful #coralreef fish met in Aqaba in Oct (posted weirder ones yesterday, inset): to start Two-banded (Red Sea) Anemonefish (Amphiprion bicinctus) common in Bubble & Sebae (Leather) anemones.
#MySwim 1/22

If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs... Garden deadwood standing strong through #StormArwen today #stormhour

🎼 I'm dreaming of a white, er, November 🎶❄️⛄🌨️ #uksnow #StormArwen

Snow on the mountains. No electricity in the village, but beautifully snowy mountains 🏔
#stormarwen #cnicht #moelwynion

I'm wrapping up n I'll be off to have a word with #StormArwen shortly, take stock of damage & rescue some plant casualties from up our field in a bit

Don't think I'll be planting any trees today

#NationalTreeWeek

#StormArwen is kicking north Scotlands ass hard tonight. Power cuts, trees knocked over & rogue trampolines escaping their enclosures 😩

I kinda need #StormArwen to calm down a bit here tomorrow. I've started adding a second of "extra wall" on the hardest hit NNW side of my office.

The cold/wet didn't get in on the bit I'd started, but can't exactly work on it with the wind like this. https://t.co/FlTQjQaBN7

We appear to have some weather. And I have to walk to work in it 😬 🥶🌧️🌬️ #StormArwen

Well, #StormArwen has hit.

Elrond is not amused. https://t.co/ZtuonsjXel

This isn't a joke. It really did happen yesterday. Stranded motorists desperate to leave Rum before #StormArwen after another 'cancelled for technical reasons' sailing @Robbie_Calmac @_KateForbes @MathesonMichael @BBCHighlands @STVNews