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• midlands_-climate-met-office.pdf

  January 1976 when a depression moving eastwards across Scotland to the North Sea brought storm force winds with gusts of 70-80 knots, the 'Burns Day storm' of 25 January 1990 when gusts of 60-70 knots were recorded widely and 27 October 2002 which again saw gusts of around 60 knots. The direction

• midlands_-climate-met-officepdf

  January 1976 when a depression moving eastwards across Scotland to the North Sea brought storm force winds with gusts of 70-80 knots, the 'Burns Day storm' of 25 January 1990 when gusts of 60-70 knots were recorded widely and 27 October 2002 which again saw gusts of around 60 knots. The direction

• southern-england_-climate-met-office.pdf

  repeated during the 'Burns Day Storm' of 25 January 1990 when gusts of 70-80 knots were recorded widely with 85 knots at Herstmonceux (East Sussex). Unlike the 1987 event, this storm struck during the day and consequently the death toll was higher (47 in the whole UK). The gale of 27 October 2002 again

• southern-england_-climate-met-officepdf

  repeated during the 'Burns Day Storm' of 25 January 1990 when gusts of 70-80 knots were recorded widely with 85 knots at Herstmonceux (East Sussex). Unlike the 1987 event, this storm struck during the day and consequently the death toll was higher (47 in the whole UK). The gale of 27 October 2002 again

• factsheet_12-national-meteorological-archive_2023.pdf

  . 24. Image of anemograph wind trace for the Burns Day Storm, 25 January 1990, at Gwennap Head, Cornwall. Wind speed is normally measured by a cup anemometer consisting of three or four cups, conical or hemispherical in shape, mounted symmetrically about a vertical spindle. The wind blowing

• factsheet_12-national-meteorological-archive_2023pdf

  . 24. Image of anemograph wind trace for the Burns Day Storm, 25 January 1990, at Gwennap Head, Cornwall. Wind speed is normally measured by a cup anemometer consisting of three or four cups, conical or hemispherical in shape, mounted symmetrically about a vertical spindle. The wind blowing

• pws_value_for_money_review_-_march_2015.pdf

  flooding compared to 1953. 22 The 1953 East Coast flood remains the UK’s worst short-lived natural disaster for loss of life in recent times, with the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami in the Indian Ocean claiming the lives of over 140 UK citizens overseas, and the 1990 Burns’ Day Storm killing 47 people in the UK

• state-of-the-uk-climate-2014-v3.pdf

  comparable or windier years in the 1980s and 1990s. This earlier period also included among the most severe storms experienced in the UK in the observational records including the ‘Burns’ Day Storm’ of 25 January 1990, the ‘Boxing Day Storm’ of 26 December 1998 and the ‘Great Storm’ of 16 October 1987. Year

• state-of-the-uk-climate-2014-v3pdf

  comparable or windier years in the 1980s and 1990s. This earlier period also included among the most severe storms experienced in the UK in the observational records including the ‘Burns’ Day Storm’ of 25 January 1990, the ‘Boxing Day Storm’ of 26 December 1998 and the ‘Great Storm’ of 16 October 1987. Year

• mo-state-of-uk-climate-2015-v3.pdf

  storms experienced in the UK in the observational records including the ‘Burns’ Day Storm’ of 25 January 1990, the ‘Boxing Day Storm’ of 26 December 1998 and the ‘Great Storm’ of 16 October 1987 and none of the individual storms during 2015 compared with these for severity. However, the last two years