The government has a dedicated section on their website, where you can find important information on various hazards and emergencies.
Check out gov.uk/prepare to stay prepared and informed.
Severe weather
The Met Office issues severe weather warnings. These cover severe gales, heavy rain, snow, icy roads, thunderstorms and lightning, dense fog and also extreme heat and sun.
As well as local media providing the latest information, the following links will be updated when severe weather cases affect local services.
Regularly updated links
- School closures - Devon County Council
- Winter traffic information - Devon County Council
- Weather forecasts - Met Office
- Weather warnings - Met Office
- Flood warnings summary - Environment Agency
- River webcams - for River Taw at Chulmleigh and Umberleigh, River Mole at Watertown and River East Lyn at Rockford
- Stagecoach bus service information
Further information on severe weather
We have a dedicated, localised Flooding advice webpage, which provides information on who to contact during a flooding emergency, 'I've been flooded' FAQs, and other useful information, surrounding sandbags, insurance and more.
- Floods and driving - AA
- https://www.facebook.com/floodingandsevereweather - Sign up to the Flooding and Severe Weather Facebook page locally
- Winter driving advice - Devon County Council
- Cold weather plan - Public Health England
- Cold weather and ice - gov.uk/prepare
- Heatwave plan - Public Health England
- Hot weather and heatwaves - gov.uk/prepare
- Hot weather and it's impacts - Met Office
- How to cope in hot weather - NHS
- Severe weather - Devon Emergency Planning Partnership
- Droughts - gov.uk/prepare
- Storms - gov.uk/prepare
- Wildfires - gov.uk/prepare
- Power cuts – Western Power Call 105
Other useful links
- Join your supplier’s Priority Services Register. Find out more about joining your energy supplier or network operator’s Priority Services Register, and the extra help you’ll get.
- Fires in the home - gov.uk/prepare
- Animal and plant health - gov.uk/prepare
- Terrorism - gov.uk/prepare
- Water supply interruptions or outages - gov.uk/prepare
- Infectious disease outbreaks - gov.uk/prepare
- Phone and broadband outages - gov.uk/prepare