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Observing once‐in‐a‐lifetime weather: the severe gale of 8 January 2005
Author(s) -
Goodall Trevor
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
weather
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.467
H-Index - 40
eISSN - 1477-8696
pISSN - 0043-1656
DOI - 10.1002/wea.3710
Subject(s) - morning , anemometer , meteorology , cliff , severe weather , climatology , automatic weather station , history , geography , environmental science , geology , archaeology , storm , wind speed , medicine
One of the most memorable weather events in my 42 years of observing occurred on the morning of Saturday 8 January 2005, during the time when I was keeping weather records from my home on the West Cliff at Whitby, North Yorkshire. A severe gale, with gusts approaching 90 knots, caused considerable structural damage to my property – and resulted in an abrupt and unfortunate termination of my anemometer record.