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The Great Storm of 1968 (Hurricane Low Q) had crossed Great Britain between the Pennines and Perthshire with the highest-ever recorded peak wind speeds (134 mph). At the time this was the strongest wind gust ever recorded in the United Kingdom, though this was superseded in 1986 when a 173 mph (278 km/h) gust was recorded at Cairn Gorm.
September 7–9, 1995 – After becoming a powerful mid-latitude cyclone, with a pressure of 957 mbar (28.3 inHg) and a core of hurricane-force winds, the remnants of Hurricane Iris struck the British Isles and France. [48] The storm produced wind gusts up to 129 km/h (80 mph) in France and 97 km/h (60 mph) in Britain.
A British expat delivering aid to tourists stuck in hotels in Florida has said Hurricane Milton is the worst storm he has seen in 25 years. The Category 3 storm made landfall on Wednesday night ...
Watch the video below for a visual breakdown of the Saffir-Simpson scale of hurricane intensity for each category. The scale was developed by structural engineer Herbert Saffir in 1969 as part of ...
Hurricane Milton also comes after Hurricane Helene, which already devastated parts of the country. “Morales is having to confront the reality of a second disaster while the first one is still fresh.
Atlantic hurricanes occasionally affect Europe after they have transitioned into an extratropical cyclone, but they rarely strike the continent while still tropical. In October 2005, a tropical depression – formerly Hurricane Vince – made landfall near Huelva, Spain, the only tropical cyclone on record to strike the continent. [250]
The hurricane center and the National Weather Service typically advise residents in the path of a storm to plan for one category higher than forecast, and for now Helene is forecast to be a ...
The 2015–2016 Great Britain and Ireland floods were a series of heavy rainfall events which led to flooding during the winter of late 2015 and early 2016. 11 named storms produced record level rainfall from November 2015 - March 2016 in both monthly and seasonal accumulation records.