What a day indeed, ranks in the top 3 of my most memorable weather events of all time. I was living in Leeds at the time and what was striking about this storm was the rapididy with which it developed as the wind swung round from the SW to the NW. From nothing to a ferocious gale in about 45mins. All the lights at work were flickering and then I walked home, right over the highest point in Leeds. That was an experience I will never forget and the like of which I may never see again. I do like walking in a good gale, I find it exhilarating but this was verging on the downright dangerous, was most certainly almost blown over a couple of times.
The Towyn flood storm, you rarely hear about this, a month later was even worse up here. That was a hell of a gale, I remember waiting at a bus stop that morning and seeing a wind gust rip the guttering off a building on the other side of the road and the wind then whipping up the debris and showering me in it.
What a rollercoaster of weather that was from late January to early March 1990, there was snow, hail, thunder, lightning, gales, torrrential rain, unusually mild.
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