One year on: Storm Desmond
Today and tomorrow marks the first anniversary of Storm Desmond.
We look back at the key facts from the storm, and some of your Weather Watchers photos that helped to tell the story as it happened.
Storm Desmond was the fourth named storm of the 2015/2016 season - following Abigail, Barney and Clodagh - which hit the UK on 5 and 6 December last year.
Record-breaking rainfall brought flooding to areas across the north of England, especially Cumbria and Lancashire where 5,200 homes were severely flooded.
A red warning was issued by the Met Office for rain across Cumbria and the Scottish Borders. An amber warning for wind was issued for north-east England and south-east Scotland.
Honister Pass in Cumbria recorded 341.4 mm of rainfall in the 24 hours up to 1800 GMT on 5 December 2015 making a new UK record.
The same period of rainfall also set a new 48-hour record (from 0900 to 0900 hrs) with 405 mm rainfall recorded at Thirlmere, Cumbria in just 38 hours.
The storm also brought severe gales with gusts of 81 mph reported at Capel Curig, Gwynedd, 78 mph at the Needles and 77 mph at High Bradfield, South Yorkshire.
43,000 homes across north-east England were left without power and on 5 December 61,000 homes in Lancaster lost power when the electrical substation was flooded.
There was major disruption to rail services in the north of England while a landslide closed a section of the West Coast mainline between Preston and Carlisle.
