"Philip Eden" philipATweatherHYPHENukDOTcom wrote in message
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With many caveats and provisos (and remembering
that Lamb's analysis was for a much, much broader area
than just the British Isles, and included the NE Atlantic)
his " top ten" (actually top 14) for the period 1500-1989
we
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I don't have the time to go through post-1989 events
to put them into perspective -- besides, someone may
already have done this and I shouldn't want to repeat
the exercise unnecessarily -- but a back-of-an-envelope
calculation puts the so-called "Burns' Day" Storm at
around 6000, last Friday's at 1250, and Tuesday night's
at 2250.

.... just to say many thanks for that: it is appreciated.

Martin.