Four people were killed, 600,000 homes left without power and the transport system reduced to chaos when the St Jude's storm hit this week.
But what caused such ferocious winds? And how did forecasters predict the storm? Here's a collection of the latest news and resources to help you explore the topic in class.
News stories from the Guardian
Storm-force winds bring flooding, travel disruption and power cuts to UK
Winds gusting up to 99mph bring chaotic start to working week as weather system sweeps in from Atlantic across southern Britain.
Saint Jude's storm: tributes paid to couple killed in London house blast
Casualties in Germany, France, Netherlands and Denmark as clean up continues in UK and thousands remain without power
St Jude's storm hits Britain – in pictures
From monster waves to fallen trees, these photographs show the power of St Jude.
St Jude, Christian or Carmen – whose storm is it anyway?
Find out how Britian chooses names for its storms, and how this differs from other countries.
St Jude: apostle whose namesake storm is about to batter Britain
Jude Thaddeus was one of the earliest of Christ's 12 apostles and is the patron saint of lost causes. But it's not for this reason that a Met office chose to name this week's storm after him.
St Jude and the giant beach ball
An enormous beach ball dislodged from its rooftop perch by the St Jude storm briefly threatened to bring chaos to the streets of east London on Monday morning.
Resources on the Guardian Teacher Network
Weather and climate
This lesson will help your students understand the factors that affect weather over Britain.
Weather poetry
Use key tools such as verbs, adverbs, simile, metaphor and personification to write dramatic poetry about stormy weather.
Cloze activity: Weather
This geography resource is a cloze exercise all about weather. Students read the sentences about weather and fill in the missing words.
Weather symbols
Encourage students to identify and describe different kinds of weather using this interactive lesson.
Introducing weather
This lesson teaches students about the different elements that make up the weather, and about how these elements are measured.
Best of the web
Historic weather data
Explore world climate and precipitation averages, courtesy of the Met Office.
Make a cloud in a glass
Clouds in the real world form in warm, moist air. Help your students recreate this process using household items.
Measuring weather
Students match illustrations of instruments that measure weather with descriptions of each instrument.
Interactive weather presenting kit
The package allows students to create their own weather forecast presentations. Slides include UK, European, world and five-day forecasts.
Make a wind twirler
Get your students cutting and sticking with this instructions on making a wind twirler.
Air masses
Air masses are parcels of air that bring distinctive weather features to the country. This reading will help students learn about how their causes and different types.
