{"id":294051,"date":"2024-01-06T17:17:49","date_gmt":"2024-01-06T16:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=294051"},"modified":"2024-01-06T17:17:51","modified_gmt":"2024-01-06T16:17:51","slug":"record-winds-at-fraserburgh-in-1989","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=294051","title":{"rendered":"Record Winds At Fraserburgh In\u00a01989"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Paul Homewood<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Great Storm of 1987 and the Burns Day in 1990 will be remembered for a long time. But others from that era have been forgotten, such as the record breaking storm in January 1989.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mark Vogan has it in his list of the UK\u2019s worst storms:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Met Office\u2019s monthly weather report gives a bit more detail:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It clearly was not just a fluky gust. The average winds at Fraserburgh were 66 kts, 76 mph, making it hurricane force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Up the coast at Lossiemouth, winds reached 90 mph, and many locations in Scotland had 80 mph winds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even down in northern England, the storm was nearly as strong, with 77 mph winds at Blyth, 80 mph in Leeds and 84 mph at Fleetwood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The winds that day still stand as the highest wind speeds on record in the UK:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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