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WE have lately been subjected to a series of storms which fortunately in the British Islands is not of very common occurrence. The storm of October 30, which was noticed in NATURE a few days after its occurrence, had scarcely left our shores before a fresh disturbance was approaching us from off the Atlantic, and by the evening of Monday, the 31st, another gale was blowing in Ireland, and during the night this storm extended to all parts of the British Islands. The central area of low barometer readings, which primarily occasioned the renewal of disturbed weather, kept to the westward of our coasts, but the Daily Weather Chart of November 1 shows that two secondary disturbances had been formed, one having its centre in the St. George's Channel, and the other over the Bay of Biscay. The very severe gale experienced in the south-west and west of England on November 1 was due to the former of these, the storm area passing during the day slowly up the Irish Sea. The fall of the barometer for this gale amounted to 1·02 in. at Pembroke in fourteen hours, from 6 p.m. 31st to 8 a.m. 1st; and at Lyme Regis the wind attained the velocity of 83 miles an hour between 7 and 8 o'clock in the morning. Another disturbance skirted to the westward of Ireland on the evening of the 2nd, and during the following day, causing southerly gales in many parts of the country, the barometer standing below 29 inches over the whole of the United Kingdom. On the evening of the 3rd another subsidiary was formed in the Irish Sea, and subsequently passed over the north of England, causing gales and disturbed weather in parts adjacent to its path. Before the expiration of the week a fresh disturbance was shown in the west, and on Saturday, the 5th, the barometer was again falling: the force of the wind, however, was not severe, although it blew a fresh gale in places. It will be seen from this notice that no fewer than five distinct storms were experienced in seven clays, and in each case the wind was accompanied by heavy rain.
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Meteorological Notes . Nature 37, 67–68 (1887). https://doi.org/10.1038/037067a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/037067a0