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	The Burns' Day Storm 25 Jan 1990
		This storm was one of the worst of the 20th century and one of the top 10-15 storms on record.
		This storm was one of the deepest depressions to affect the UK and what I would term its 'zone of extremely windy weather' was spread over a much larger area of the UK than the Great Storm of 1987.
		This storm also occurred during the day which meant that there were more people out and about to be at risk from the storm and this explains why the Burns' Day storm death toll was more than twice that of the 1987 storm.
	www.dandantheweatherman.com /Bereklauw/Burnsday.htm (665 words)

	Great Storm England 1987: case study (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The so-called "Great Storm" was the worst to affect south-east England for 290 years.
		Although the storm passed within a few hours, and during the night when most people were asleep, it left a trail of death and destruction.
		Storms of this magnitude can now normally be predicted in advance.
	www.fantasyfacup.com /matthew/essays/storm87.htm (421 words)

	1987 Publications Abstracts - NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory
		Flows in the unregulated Great Lakes connecting channels, the St. Clair and Detroit Rivers, are normally determined using mathematical flow models with calibration based on periodic discharge measurements taken during the open-water seasons.
		We demonstrate this point for the Great Lakes by showing that present and proposed phosphorus management plans have neither the probability of success nor the cost effectiveness of a management plan that is based on a combined uncertainty-optimization analysis.
		Storm surge water levels for a given wind speed and wind direction can be calculated for Lake Ontario, Central and Eastern Lake Erie, Western Lake Erie, Lake St. Clair, Lake Huron, Saginaw Bay, the eastern shore of Lake Michigan, the western shore of Lake Michigan, Green Bay, or Lake Superior.
	www.glerl.noaa.gov /pubs/abstracts/abs1987.html (6399 words)

	The Great Storm of October 15/16 1987
		The storm of the 15/16 October 1987 is probably England’s most famous (and infamous!!) weather event of the 20th century.
		However, the October 1987 storm is more famous because of the public perception that it was less than adequately forecast and for being synonymous with BBC weatherman Michael Fish than for the damage it caused.
		During the early hours of the 16th the storm’s cold front passed and it was during the few hours immediatly after the passage of the cold front that most places had their windiest weather - most areas affected by the storm recorded their highest winds between 0200 and 0600 GMT.
	www.dandantheweatherman.com /Bereklauw/Octstorm.html (1640 words)

	Great Storm
		It brought with it a prolonged period of unsettled weather, storms, gales and high seas that affected the British Isles and southern North Sea across to the coast of northern Denmark.
		It is the devastation of 1953 and 1987 that left the biggest imprint on the last century, the latter recalled after weathermen famously pooh-poohed the idea that there was a storm on the way and consequently misled the nation, giving homeowners a false sense of security.
		With the storms that preceded the night of November 26/27, some of them could have weakened the structures that were eventually destroyed in the Great Storm.
	www.edp24.co.uk /Content/HiddenNorfolk/asp/2003/11/031122GreatStorm2.asp (1019 words)

	Met Office: The Great Storm of 1987
		The Great Storm of 1987 did not originate in the tropics and was not, by any definition, a hurricane - but it was certainly exceptional.
		The storm of 1987 was remarkable for its ferocity, and affected much the same area of the UK as its 1703 counterpart.
		Ahead of the storm, barometric pressure had fallen rapidly, but neither the magnitude of the fall nor the rate of decrease was remarkable.
	www.meto.gov.uk /education/secondary/students/1987.html (1586 words)

	Great Storm of 1703 - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Great Storm of 1703, violent storm of possible hurricane strength principally affecting southern England and the English Channel in late 1703, the...
		This report on the Great Storm of 1987 appeared in The Times on October 17, 1987.
		Such had been the force of the storm that hit southern Britain...
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Great_Storm_of_1703.html (122 words)

	Great Lakes Storm of 1913 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Great Lakes Storm of 1913, historically referred to as the "Big Blow," the "Freshwater Fury," or the "White Hurricane," was a blizzard with hurricane-force winds that devastated the Great Lakes basin in the United States Midwest and the Canadian province of Ontario from November 7, 1913, to November 10, 1913.
		The storm was first noticed on Thursday, November 6, on the western side of Lake Superior, rapidly moving toward northern Lake Michigan.
		By late afternoon, the storm signal flags were replaced with a vertical sequence of red, white, and red lanterns, indicating that a hurricane with winds over 74 mph (119 km/h) was coming.
	www.knowledgehunter.info /wiki/Great_Lakes_Storm_of_1913 (2990 words)

	BBC - London - TV & Radio - Inside Out - Storm Chasers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In a storm chase situation you are likely to encounter bad road conditions with large amounts of standing rain water and flash flooding.
		Storm chasers are obsessed with finding the eye of the most destructive storms on the planet.
		Storm chasing is a popular but specialist hobby in the United States where weather conditions are often more extreme than in the UK.
	www.bbc.co.uk /london/insideldn/insideout/series5/wk4/stormchaser/storm_chasers.shtml (1503 words)

	Met Office: Great weather events: the 'Great Storm' of 1987
		So said Michael Fish on the evening of 15 October 1987 and thus was born the most famous quote from TV weather forecasting.
		In the ensuing hours the most severe storm for nearly 300 years raged across the southern half of the country and although there is much argument about whether it should be called a 'hurricane', it was without doubt a very remarkable event.
		At the end of all this the Met Office became better equipped to provide the country with early warning of severe weather and in January 1990 emphatic advice of the so called 'Burns' Day Storm' was provided and the impact of that storm was significantly less.
	www.met-office.gov.uk /corporate/pressoffice/anniversary/storm1987.html (440 words)

	The Great Storm of October 1987
		The great storm of October 1987 was the worst to affect the south east of England since 1703.
		The storm developed rapidly - so much so that weather forecasters were unable to predict the track and ferocity of the storm.
		The strongest winds were recorded in the south easterly quadrant of the storm, crossing the English side of the Channel and through Hampshire, Sussex, Surrey and Kent.
	www.stvincent.ac.uk /Resources/Weather/Severe/oct87.html (866 words)

	Chesil Beach (Chesil Bank), Dorset etc. - Hurricanes, Storms and Storm Surges - Geology Field Trip Guide
		A great naval fleet from Portsmouth intending to sail to the West Indies to fight the French was wrecked in the English Channel in a storm of hurricane strength.
		The best-described was the storm, the "Great Gale" of the English Channel in November 1824.
		The storm surge is defined as the difference between the storm tide and the normal tide (Elsner and Kara, 1999).
	www.soton.ac.uk /~imw/chestorm.htm (16877 words)

	Jay Barnes on Hurricanes \| "The Next Great Storm"
		As hurricane Floyd swept past Florida and turned toward the Carolinas near the peak of the 1999 tropical storm season, there was actually some cause for relief on the part of local officials and storm watchers along the Tar Heel coast.
		Though the storm clearly was headed their way, most observers were thankful that the once-mighty hurricane was weakening as it edged northward.
		A study of the many storms that have affected the region in the past yields one key observation: though every hurricane is different in size, intensity, and orientation, each has its own unique potential for disaster.
	www.ibiblio.org /uncpress/hurricanes/great_storm.html (1593 words)

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		This is one of the structural oppositions we seen in Nature: country versus town, wet versus dry, raw versus cooked; wild versus tame, storm versus urbanity.....Urban storms are such a contradiction that we take them for portents; or invent them retrospectively as suitable harbingers for the funerals of princes...
		Storms are for wild places of the world not its cities.
		Urban storms are such a contradiction that we take them for portents; or invent them retrospectively as suitable harbingers for the funerals of princes...
	www.cs.pitt.edu /mpqa/demo/database/docs/http___www_bbc_co_uk/Fred_Rogers-httpwwwbbccoukradio4historysceptred_islepage250shtmlquestion=250.txt (725 words)

	The Great Storm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Great Storm of 1987 has been called Britain's worst natural disaster for 300 years.
		The storm took at least eighteen lives and cost close to £800 000 000 in damages.
		The storm was bold enough to do something that none of Britain's gardeners had been able to do: forget sentimentality, and get rid of some dead wood.
	members.aol.com /secretslag/storm.html (450 words)

	1987 - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		1987 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar.
		October 15 and October 16 - Great Storm of 1987: hurricane force winds to hit much of the South of England killing 23 people.
		You can find it there under the keyword 1987 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1987)The list of previous authors is available here: version history (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1987andaction=history).
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/1987 (1766 words)

	Guardian \| Peril on land and sea as Atlantic storm takes country by surprise
		In terms of wind speeds and damage inflicted, the weather system was comparable to the severe gale which lashed southern counties two years ago and was then said to have been one of the worst to strike the United Kingdom since the great storm of 1987.
		By way of comparison, the strongest gust in the 1987 storm, which killed 18 people and felled 15m trees, was measured at 122mph at Gorleston in Norfolk.
		Force 10 winds, once described as a storm but now redefined as a "whole gale", are capable of causing considerable structural damage, breaking off large branches and uprooting some trees.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4533547-110970,00.html (837 words)

	TEACH: Water Pollution in the Great Lakes
		The International Joint Commission (IJC), created as a result of the Boundary Waters Treaty of 1909, conducted studies on the water quality of the Great Lakes in the 1960s, determining that excessive phosphorus was causing eutrophication in the Great Lakes, particularly in lakes Ontario and Erie.
		In 1978, the Agreement was renewed to reduce the phosphorus levels for all of the Great Lakes and called for the elimination of all POPs discharging into the lakes.
		The most recent report in 2000, while acknowledging that the two countries have done much to control point source pollution of toxic chemicals, criticized both countries for their failure to control the rise of contaminated sediments and airborne pollutants, which are both caused by toxic chemicals and lead to many wildlife and human health problems.
	www.great-lakes.net /teach/pollution/water/water4.html (772 words)

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		After the storm did hit Britain, racking up an estimated £1.2 billion of damage and 23 fatalities in its wake, the U.K.'s national weather service enacted several reforms, including the purchase of additional supercomputing power to enhance forecasting.
		Despite the ferocity of both the Columbus Day Storm and the Great Storm of 1987, there's a reason both events are comparable to Atlantic hurricanes: Atlantic hurricanes are still the horrifying standard by which science measures great destructive storms.
		The storm swept across the Caribbean islands of Martinique, St. Eustatius, and Barbados between October 10 and October 16, largely without warning.
	articles.techrepublic.com.com /5102-10881-5889246.html (1110 words)

	BBC - Weather Centre - About BBC Weather - Michael Fish
		A hurricane is the term used for a storm that develops in the tropics, so in this sense, the Great Storm was not a hurricane.
		My son would like to know if the storm of 1987 was the back end of a hurricane.
		Since the 1987 storm, it would appear that severe weather has been on the increase globally.
	www.bbc.co.uk /weather/bbcweather/forecasters/michael_fish_1987storm.shtml (852 words)

	Powerful Storm Belts Europe
		It was the worst storm in the area since the great storm of October, 1987.
		Europe was hit with a powerful storm under a weather elephant on October 26-27th, Day 299-300, for judgment.
		It was the worst storm in the area since October, 1987.
	www.biblenews1.com /history2/20021028.htm (1030 words)

	The Great Storm of 16th October 1987-1
		During the night of 15th/16th October 1987 a rapidly deepening depression swept across the country from approximately the south-west approaches to the Humber.
		The fact that this was a weekday afternoon ensured maximum disruption to people going about their daily business and to transport etc., which added to the widespread damage suffererd in Royston.
		Whilst the worst of the storm was over by this time a howling north-westerly wind was still blowing and holding a camera steady was no mean feat, so if you spot any camera shake you will know why!
	www.iceni.org.uk /index/storm871.htm (712 words)

	ON THIS DAY \| 16 \| 1987: Hurricane winds batter southern England
		At least 13 people are known to have died and many dozens have been injured, mostly by falling trees and buildings.
		The storm cost a total of 18 lives and an estimated £1 billion in repairs and clear-up costs.
		According to the Met Office the last storm of similar magnitude in England occurred in 1703.
	news.bbc.co.uk /onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/16/newsid_2533000/2533219.stm (539 words)

	From Vietnam to Desert Storm
		The war in the Gulf was unique in many ways, and a large number of the lessons may not be applicable to other scenarios.
		Desert Storm must be analyzed in a broader historical context if fundamental truths are to be identified.
		For example, the effort to use a high-tech combination of sensors and air strikes to stem the flow of men and materiel down the Ho Chi Minh Trail to South Vietnam proved a costly failure.
	www.afa.org /magazine/perspectives/desert_storm/0192vietnam.asp (3049 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Science/Nature \| Predicting the Great Storm
		British TV weatherman Michael Fish came in for heavy criticism for his forecast on 15 October 1987 in which he said there would be no hurricane that night.
		It was the eve of the Great Storm which felled millions of trees and took out electricity supplies across much of south east England.
		A model to better predict severe storms is among the exhibits displayed at this year's Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition in London.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/sci/tech/3035428.stm (352 words)

	Tour of Helmingham Hall Gardens
		Some of the famous Helmingham oaks in the Park are estimated to be up to 900 years old, and many have immense girths, but the splendid oak avenue leading up the front drive was planted about 1680.
		This avenue and many trees in the Park suffered terribly in the great storm of 1987; a large replanting scheme is being carried out so that future generations will see little change.
		In 1840 the 1st Lord Tollemache, on his succession, found the house in a deplorable condition, and a great deal of restoration, particularly on the garden front, had to be done; the courtyard overhang was bricked in at this time.
	members.aol.com /helmingest/history.htm (1376 words)

	Halfbakery: Self Contained House Breathing Apparatus
		I am proposing a set of compressors that would be able to monitor and equalize pressure inside the hoise, acting as a scuba regulator.
		Given the high likelehood of power interruptions during a major storm, these compressors would be powered by generators, or perhaps even a wind turbine.
		During the 'Great Storm of 1987', my bedroom window happily flexed in the wind and withstood gusts of 70mph+ comfortably, but one of our downstairs windows in a more sheltered area was clipped by a fence panel and shattered.
	www.halfbakery.com /idea/Self_20Contained_20House_20Breathing_20Apparatus (524 words)

	Storm Dunlop - Meteorology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The 'Great Storm' of October 1987 was not (of course) 'a severe depression of the weather front' [sic], but simply 'a deep (and rapidly deepening) secondary depression'.
		It is true that some adventurous scientists once considered using a tank - although getting it into the path of a tornado would have been extremely difficult - but those very tentative plans were soon dropped when a tornado passed through an army storage depot and tossed armoured vehicles around like toys.
		It was chosen - to my great surprise - for inclusion in the 2001 European Meteorological Calendar, published jointly by the Deutsche Meteorologische Gesellschaft, Société Météorogique Française, and Royal Meteorological Society, under the auspices of the European Meteorological Society.
	www.btinternet.com /~storm.dunlop/sd_meteo.htm (917 words)

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