Richard Dixon wrote:
Interesting to see the low forecast to move east through N Scotland and
then towards Norway and then south-east into Sweden / Denmark. Vaguely
reminiscent of the N Sea floods low from 1953, although I'm sure people
will correct me on the exact track of that system !!

Some quite strong winds coming down the North Sea...

Richard

Rich,
a reanalysis of the 1953 event is here-
# ERA-40 Project Report Series No. 10
Jung, T., E. Klinker and S. Uppala
Reanalysis and reforecast of three major European storms of the 20th
century using the ECMWF forecasting system
November 2003
http://www.ecmwf.int/publications/li...A40_PRS_10.pdf
I believe it was published in Met Apps as two papers,
regards,
David