Thanks for posting this, the strong winds this week got me thinking about the worst I've ever experienced, and It was Boxing Night 1998. In the eastern outskirts of Glasgow the winds were truly ferocious, I thought my windows were coming in at one point.
Probably one of the most memorable weather events of my childhood. I have been looking for the weather forecasts to this for years, thanks for the upload. Can still remember clearly the howling winds from that night and feeling as though our front door was going to cave in from the ferocity of the wind and rain.
While normally resident in the west of Scotland I was away in England for this period, I missed it all but heard tales of woe from people back home when I returned. The worst I've experienced (in Scotland this time) was cyclone Ulli, the storm that hit in 2012. It was localised over west and central Scotland and as we were travelling back in the night before we had no idea it was about to hit us. We awoke in the early hours to hear winds whistling through the house through any gap it could find and the power was off. At one stage I thought all the windows were going to come in. The hillside across from the house, which was home to an entire forest of fir trees, was completely flattened, each tree being lifted up and ripped apart like matchsticks. I later learned that ferocious storms like this can spawn small localised tornadoes, which may explain what I saw. Now I live in England again, a bit inland from the coast and we just don't see storms anything like it.
Cal I don’t recall the storm you’re referring to but the Boxing Day storm was the most devastating storm in my living memory and I’m 37 years of age. Winds like I’ve never seen before.
I remember this, dont remember much rain, but the wind that was somthing else, flattened everything, hurricane stephen it was called, dont want to witness anything like it ever again.
My barometer in Glasgow went to 944 millibars. Never seen anything like it. I was in the st that very night that the stepple fell down. The table that we were eating shook but their was no noise. A fine chineese meal was had at a place we had to go down stair to eat at.
God how I hate Christmas weather in this country. Los Angeles in California had blue skies, sun and 17 celsius/62 Farenheit on Christmas Day 2015 (chilly as most LA people would call it), and all we had was misery, flooding, followed by gales.
@@HarryWessex Dark and cold is fine with me, it is the the gales and hurricanes that blow in from the Atlantic over Christmas which ruin it for everyone, or tonnes of snow coming down from the arctic.
@@johnking5174 you need to remember here in the UK we never do and can't get Hurricanes as they require sea temperatures of 26 Celsius or warmer and here in the UK seas are a chilly 7-8 Celsius in Winter and just 15 Celsius in Summer so not even warm enough
Thanks for posting this, the strong winds this week got me thinking about the worst I've ever experienced, and It was Boxing Night 1998. In the eastern outskirts of Glasgow the winds were truly ferocious, I thought my windows were coming in at one point.
How I miss some of these weather presenters and the basic and easy to understand weather graphics lol.
Isobel Lang 😍😍😍
Well done for putting this up. We were in north west Ireland. Flattened half the county
Probably one of the most memorable weather events of my childhood. I have been looking for the weather forecasts to this for years, thanks for the upload.
Can still remember clearly the howling winds from that night and feeling as though our front door was going to cave in from the ferocity of the wind and rain.
While normally resident in the west of Scotland I was away in England for this period, I missed it all but heard tales of woe from people back home when I returned. The worst I've experienced (in Scotland this time) was cyclone Ulli, the storm that hit in 2012. It was localised over west and central Scotland and as we were travelling back in the night before we had no idea it was about to hit us. We awoke in the early hours to hear winds whistling through the house through any gap it could find and the power was off. At one stage I thought all the windows were going to come in. The hillside across from the house, which was home to an entire forest of fir trees, was completely flattened, each tree being lifted up and ripped apart like matchsticks. I later learned that ferocious storms like this can spawn small localised tornadoes, which may explain what I saw. Now I live in England again, a bit inland from the coast and we just don't see storms anything like it.
Cal I don’t recall the storm you’re referring to but the Boxing Day storm was the most devastating storm in my living memory and I’m 37 years of age. Winds like I’ve never seen before.
I remember this, dont remember much rain, but the wind that was somthing else, flattened everything, hurricane stephen it was called, dont want to witness anything like it ever again.
My barometer in Glasgow went to 944 millibars. Never seen anything like it. I was in the st that very night that the stepple fell down. The table that we were eating shook but their was no noise. A fine chineese meal was had at a place we had to go down stair to eat at.
It's Christmas 2018 today; 20 years later 😁😁
i remember this day
distruption should be same all over if winds are the same speed ? Midlands tended to have a lot of plastic tables in gardens lol
I was with my uncle the following year
Friday 25th Saturday 26th December 1998
Christmas 1998, the day I got my 1st bike :D
Thursday 24th Friday 25th and Saturday 26th December 1998
Boxing day storm and the UK release date of what dreams may come was released on boxing day
it's going to get windy - stick Michael on the case 😅
Worst storm to ever hit Ireland. Made Opheila look like holiday weather.
Ophelia recorded higher winds.
With my dad.
God how I hate Christmas weather in this country. Los Angeles in California had blue skies, sun and 17 celsius/62 Farenheit on Christmas Day 2015 (chilly as most LA people would call it), and all we had was misery, flooding, followed by gales.
Here in Sydney we can ofter see temps above 35*C on Christmas Day, even up to 40*C. Last month the temp got up to 46.9*C!
How is it a proper Christmas if it's hot? part of why Christmas started is because it's so dark and cold in Northern Europe that time of year...
@@HarryWessex Dark and cold is fine with me, it is the the gales and hurricanes that blow in from the Atlantic over Christmas which ruin it for everyone, or tonnes of snow coming down from the arctic.
@@johnking5174 you need to remember here in the UK we never do and can't get Hurricanes as they require sea temperatures of 26 Celsius or warmer and here in the UK seas are a chilly 7-8 Celsius in Winter and just 15 Celsius in Summer so not even warm enough
Now that was a storm, not this over hype Barra
Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, Boxing Day, 27th and 28th December 1998?
6:47 in the mix weather presenters lol
I have a question - who presented the weather in the period 23rd December 1999 - 2nd January 2000?
Which days?