"Brian Blair" wrote in message
...
As i read various reports from Hebridean Locals stating that it was
the worst storm they can remember, it is clear that rating a storm
that way is fairly hopeless as one would have to be in the same place
and in the same circumstances for each storm to make a decent
judgement. snip As usual if the Met Office don't then the news media
will. Maybe if each "extreme" weather event was put into perspective
by the Mo,

.... interesting concept: I wonder if some sort of mid-latitude 'index'
of severity has ever been attempted, other than a classification by
central pressure?

Martin.


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