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.

As I remember it - unsafe to be out on the streets of Plymouth that morning
with slates blowing off rooftops.

http://www.woldsweather.co.uk/Weather/Jan251990.pdf


The death toll in the headline was 39.

Trevor
Kirkburn




"Len Wood" wrote in message
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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.
No sign of any explosively deepening depressions today with tell-tale
cloud signature on the satellite pics. In fact it is calm and sunny
here in Wembury.

But on the morning of 25 Jan 1990 we had gusts of 80 knots and highest
hourly mean wind speed of 60 knots.
Blew down a few nearby Cypress trees onto a power line supplying local
houses. We were without electricity for 3 days. Wot, no telly?!!

I bet the media won't cover today's anniversary with the comment 'We
don't get storms like that nowadays' .
They prefer to peddle the myth that we will get more of them. Really?

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate/...sting/jan1990/

How was it for you in your part of the world on 25 Jan 1990?

Len
Wembury, SW Devon.