Abstract
THE Liverpool Observatory, erected at Bidston, on the Cheshire side of the estuary of the Mersey, stands on a slight eminence about 200 feet above the sea-level. The ascent is tolerably steep on each side except from the south, and with the Irish Sea on the north, and the rivers Mersey and Dee on the east and west sides respectively, there is nothing to obstruct or diminish the force of a passing storm. Self-recording anemometers of the Robinson and Osier types have been in position since 1867, and it is from the records of these instruments that these statistics have been prepared. How far these records are absolutely correct is beside the present question; all the data have been obtained with the same instruments, and are strictly comparable between themselves.
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PLUMMER, W. Storm Statistics at Bidston. Nature 51, 272–273 (1895). https://doi.org/10.1038/051272c0
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