In message , N_Cook
writes
On 21/05/2021 20:11, John Hall wrote:
In message , N_Cook writes
For starters 89mph gust at the Needles, yesterdays shipping forecast
for 2 southern sea areas "violent storm force 11" for Sole and
Shannon. Precedents?
Checking all the Mays from 1901 to 2008 in Philip Edens GB weather
disasters book. Plenty of serious thunderstorms and rainstorms, but
only these wind events reported there.

21st 1950 tornado and overturned bus
19th 1952 tornado
4-5th 55mph gust Canmbridgeshire
16th 1962 100mph gust Western Isles , Scotland
19th 1996 "high winds"in Ten-tors area
9-21 1997 Tornado , Woburn

A sort of "me-too" moment on the day its reported the world's biggest
ever iceberg launches itself from Anatartica


Given that tornadoes are very different beasts, at first sight the 1962
event looks like it might have been the closest equivalent. The
reanalysis chart is he


https://www.wetterzentrale.de/reanal...and=5&dag=16&u
ur=1200&var=1&map=1&model=noaa


That was the very north of the country where they breed them hardier
than us southerners, so perhaps once in a century sort of
unseasonability.
On the other hand the MetO/Met Eirran, seemingly never bothered giving
it a name, so perhaps not a notable event/disaster in Philip Eden terms.


Isn't giving British and Irish storms names a comparatively recent
innovation? I thought it only started ten or so years ago, so well after
1962. I don't think even the October 1987 storm ever received an
official name.
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John Hall "Hard work often pays off after time, but laziness always
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