Graham P Davis wrote:

On Tue, 9 Dec 2014 18:09:20 -0000
"Togless" wrote:

"Malcolm" wrote (quoting the Daily Express, I think):

"The deepest and most powerful low pressure system for A CENTURY
is currently hurtling towards the west coast where mammoth 50-ft
waves threaten mayhem."

Are they claiming that it's already the deepest and most powerful
low pressure system for a century (which should be easy enough to
verify or refute), or just that they expect it to be?


I knew I was getting old but seem to be getting forgetful too. If
that piddling little depression is the deepest for a century and I
remember lots deeper than this, where'd my telegram from the queen go?

There was one that I can remember 20 or 30 years ago that got below 920 mb SW
of Iceland. I think that one holds the record.

Stephen Burt has done some research in this field that was published in
'Weather'

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Norman Lynagh
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