• The Night of the Big Wind (Irish: Oíche na Gaoithe Móire) was a powerful European windstorm that swept across what was then the United Kingdom of Great...
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    Beacon Press, 2004: 138. ISBN 0-8070-7026-2. Fitzgerald, Donal, "The Night of the Big Wind," Ice, Gales and Moving Bogs. [1] Ballingeary Cumann Staire History...
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    European windstorm (category Types of cyclone)
    and destroyed the island of Strand. Great Storm of 1703 – Severe gales affect south coast of England. Night of the Big Wind, 1839 – The most severe windstorm...
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    Anemometer (redirect from Wind measurement)
    Automated airport weather station Night of the Big Wind Particle image velocimetry Savonius wind turbine Wind power forecasting Wind run Windsock, a simple high-visibility...
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    Earth, Wind & Fire (EW&F or EWF) is an American band whose music spans the genres of jazz, R&B, soul, funk, disco, pop, Latin, and Afro-pop. They are...
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    Storm Ulysses (category Weather events in the United Kingdom)
    it was regarded as the worst storm in memory, in central Ireland as the worst since the 1839 Night of the Big Wind and on the Isle of Man as unprecedented...
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    The great storm of 1987 was a violent extratropical cyclone that occurred on the night of 15–16 October, with hurricane-force winds causing casualties...
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  • Scotland 925.6 hPa. Though the lowest pressure may be second to the Night of the big wind low, which saw a value of 27.25 inches of mercury (923 hPa) at Sumburgh...
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  • Eugene Duggan, As The Centuries Passed ..., ed. Kieran Jordan, 2000. ISBN 0-9538684-0-0 "An Irishwoman’s Diary on theNight of the Big Wind’ – January 6,...
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    record #October wind speeds, comparable to the "big" ones in 1990" (Tweet) – via Twitter. @larslowinski (20 October 2016). "A closer look at the model profiles...
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