Philip Eden wrote:

"Len Wood" wrote :

Twenty years ago today, a large part of the UK was hit by this extreme
event. Well-forecast by the UKMO IIRC, in contrast to the Oct 1987
storm.

Oh, and can we have a ruling from our Scottish members ...
surely there's no such thing as "Burns' Day", only "Burns' Night",
isn't there? Though ironically the term was, I believe,
coined by Ewen McCallum who was Scottish the last
time I spoke to him.

Philip


.....and in Ayrshire dialect it would be Burns' Nicht.

Looking at my weather diary from Chalfont St Giles I have simply noted that day
as "The Great Storm". The 0700 ob has the wind as SW F4-5 and the 2000 ob as SW
F3. What was all the fuss about??!!! What I hadn't remembered was that Jan 1990
was a very mild month. In Chalfont St Giles the mean temp for the month was
6.5c. There were 10 days with the max above 10.0 and only 3 nights with air
frost. Max temp for the month was 12.5 and the min for the month was -1.2. Jan
2010 is very different!!

--
Norman Lynagh
Tideswell, Derbyshire
303m a.s.l.