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Ed Hawkins Jan 6, 2023

184 years ago today an extreme windstorm hit Ireland & the UK, known as the 'Night of the Big Wind'. This event was one of the most severe & damaging windstorms to ever hit these islands.

We now need some help to learn from this event... #Archives

We have found a surprising number of locations with barometer measurements of pressure during Jan 1839. This should allow us to build a reanalysis to inform about the risks of such events today.

But, are there other sources we have not yet found?

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Dee Toher

@ed_hawkins there may be more observations (if not barometric, perhaps descriptions of the effects) in Irish - it is known as Oíche na Gaoithe Móire. If they were documenting in Ireland they would have been using the old Irish script, which few people can easily decipher now.