Putting The Wind Up… (part 3)
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 we saw that the UK & Ireland was windier back in our great, great grandmother’s day and that maximum scalar wind speeds within the authoritative ICOADS dataset were showing signs of truncation. In part 2 we gawped at a slide showing the super windy month count for the period 1845 – 2023 and this hammered the point home. In d…