From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

By Paul Homewood

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.

Mark Vogan has it in his list of the UK’s worst storms:

The Met Office’s monthly weather report gives a bit more detail:

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

Up the coast at Lossiemouth, winds reached 90 mph, and many locations in Scotland had 80 mph winds.

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.

The winds that day still stand as the highest wind speeds on record in the UK: