The day after Christmas Day is called Boxing Day in the United Kingdom, named, not because people went around to other people’s houses drunk from all the sherry drunk the previous day and roar “Do you want some?” before delivering a right hook, but because in the Victorian era it was the day that boxes of gifts were given to the servants in the house.
As a result there are a large number of things that happen on Boxing Day that could only happen in the United Kingdom including: regulated gatherings of people on horseback to take part in largely ceremonial hunts (regulated in the United Kingdom since 2005), stores holding sales where items are reduced by up to 75% and especially since the 1990’s, storms.
The first one of note was on Boxing Day 1998 which made landfall in north western Ireland with winds peaking at 65mph (making it in American terms a Cat 1 hurricane). This was followed in 2010 by the thaw storm, that turned a month of sub zero temperatures (leading to records being broken all over the country) into a generally speaking dismal December day, then you had Storm Erich in 2013 which saw parts of Wales receive Cat 3 hurricane strength gusts and this year is no exception as Storm Bella will cross the country over the course of the day