24th October 1999

[sunnijim]

:huh: Not to sure im posting this in the right place,but looking back through my weather records last night i was interested to see that on this date six years ago the remnants of Hurricane Irene slammed into southern England.

It arrived at a time of high tides around the south coast,and coupled with winds that gusted to 70mph,it caused almost total destruction to Bogner Regis pier and much damage to the pier at Hastings.

Alot of coastal flooding was reported,along with trees down and power outages as the storm moved up from the Bay of Biscay across southern England in the daytime.

[shuggee]

That's amazing I for Irene (only the 8th of the season!).

I'm popping this into Historic Weather. :huh:

[Methuselah]

Cold, wet and windy...Basically poo!! :huh:

[summer blizzard]

As you can see from the charts below, Hurrican e Irene became extra-tropical on the 21st October 1999, before approaching southern England, to be honest it does not look that windy to me.

[Nick F]

Blimey SB, you on a mission or what this afternoon dredging up old threads from last year