Putting The Wind Up… (part 2)
I take a quick look at historic wind speed for UK & Ireland plus their waters in order to gain some perspective on all this named storm malarkey.
In part 1 of this miniseries I discovered something that I had not appreciated before – that the UK & Ireland were historically rather windy but that winds across these islands calmed down to a low point during the ‘60s and ‘70s after which they started climbing in strength again. If you take just the fancy ESA satellite data from 1980 and ignore histor…