Hurricane? The Great Storm In England 1987

[LieslWasUnavailable]

A bit breezy?

[Shannon159G]

What was the Hurricane Called ?? x

[graybus]

@Shannon159G The Hurricane. I think its only fuckwit amercans that name storms

[Amithysia]

My daughter was born that day.

[HackneyShark]

Luckily I lived in Frome, Somerset at the time so we were in the 'eye' of the storm, so to speak. When I saw the carnage on the news I couldn't believe it!

[lethalman3000]

2011 sorry nick dorset 33 now will it happern again i think maybe more so for south coast england thurday in to friday ALERT SOUTH UK

[lethalman3000]

looks like we cound get this tonight thursday night again this time thursday again thursday night in to friday thursday the 15th of december i remember the last one i was 11 years old saw bbc wearther fish got it wrong dont blame him hes a good guy ,yeah last gave a good bonfire night with all the word left from the storm had a good bonfire night but never get it like that again

[sb23848]

o well gay

[inmemory101]

The evening or early hours of the morning before, I had been playing snooker and drove accross the hogs back between Guildford and Farnham, I remember looking up at the clouds thinking that they were moving faster than usual, I got home, slept in the living room so as not to wake the wife, she woke me up and asked if i was going to help the next door neighbour move the wall, what wall? i asked, yep, i slept through it too, now im like pmorris below, only 4-5 hrs a night.

[georgetheguniea]

I remeber that guy who said theres a hurricane coming but dont worry there isnt one.

[georgetheguniea]

jee people were saying it would happen yesterday and the day b4 that but, It Didnt!

[34Diana1]

wow, it happenig again now, around scotland, northen ireland, wales and england

[KaneTheTwiglet]

OMG it was a hurricane i wasnt born this day but winds of over 100mph was considerd a hurricane but if this was today it be a catagory 2 or 3 status and scotland wont get anything compared to this

[harley07s]

thats gonna happen again TODAY D:

[t3hr0bb0]

MOAN SCOTLAND, FUCK ALL WILL HAPPEN THE DAY

[haythereuk]

@iFuzeVengence

The time Katia Arrives to the NW of the UK it will have lost it's Hurricane Status and just be a powerful storm, as the Gust are only expected to reach 70 mps odd, Unlike the Hurricane of 1987 which was still a Hurricane packing winds of over 100 Mph,

Katia will just be like any other power low pressure to reach these shores, Very Gusty Very wet, something we're used too year after year, Panic not!

[pmorris007]

I was 15, slept right through it, my nan said it was very scary and that she could not believe anyone could sleep through that. Funny that I am now 38 and can not sleep longer than 3 hours without waking up.

[WeMuckAround]

amazing to believe that my mum, dad, grandad, aunt, uncle - all my realations survived this and never boughtit up in conversation! R.I.P. everyone who died in this storm...

[offwiththefairies77]

I slept through this. in the morning we had tree's that had fallen just missing our little cottage in the country!

[Grievous04]

That's interesting, to be honest. I never thought our country England was hit by a hurricane/cyclone.

[ilovemoviesuk]

@Grievous04 it wasnt. it was a tropical storm , not a hurricane . cant get hurricanes in england. the sea isnt warm enough. To be classed a hurricane a storm needs sustained winds of 75MPH gusts do NOT count. The 87 storm had sustained winds of only 46MPH .

[Grievous04]

@ilovemoviesuk Thanks for explaining, mate.

[TWENTIETHCENTURYBABY]

@ilovemoviesuk Always wondered what the sustained wind speed was. It was pretty ferocious anyway. We had it really bad in Brighton.

[TQVS]

my mum+dad slept through this lol :)

[TheMickscott99]

ouch

[Angel100475]

I remember this storm very well. I was 12 and living near Worthing, West Sussex. I woke at about 1am and tried to look out of the window, but it was chaos and the window was covered with sand! The greenhouse was found in pieces in the garden of someone 3 doors down from where I lived, the garden fence was gone and the roof of the house was quite badly damaged.

[Spartanc19]

My dad was sleeping through it as it hit his area, he was lucky

[06mgibson]

brilliant choice of music :)

[irlamvaleno5]

This storm had a lot less precipitation and a different kind of wind profile to a hurricane and i dont think it had an eye so therefore couldnt really be classed a hurricane

[yoimdansta23]

my dad slept through it but my mum was in a plane coming back from new york

[stgeorge64]

V Scary A :(

[tomtomx4]

it went a hurricane

[borgduck]

I slept through it.

[joebstarsurfer]

and i didnt have to go to school rock on how much money did the bank rob/.Hastings fck yes.

[joebstarsurfer]

and i didnt have to go to school rock on

[lordofquim]

was 7 and slept right thru it!

[imo518]

Yes this was a huge storm but it wasnt a hurricane, hurricanes need to occur over warm tropical seas of temperates above 27 degrees C to a depth of 70m. We don't get those conditions in or near England. It was just a very large intense depression (yes i know hurricanes are intense low pressure systems).

and to say "the death toll is rising" is a bit ridiculous when only 18 people died, if you go to anywhere else in the world, only 18 people would be a miracle for a natural disaster.

[TWENTIETHCENTURYBABY]

@imo518 I live in Brighton and it's true we had 117mph winds, I remember it well. I would say it was a hurricane and as for the fact hurricanes need to occur over warm tropical seas of temperatures above 27 degrees C to a depth of 70m, it's clearly not the case anymore. Maybe that's what meteorologist once thought, but they obviously need to think again.

[GoMISSINGO]

@imo518

Hurricane: noun

2. a storm of the most intense severity.

1. a severe, often destructive storm, esp a tropical cyclone

2. a wind of force 12 or above on the Beaufort scale

A "Hurricane" doesn't have to be tropical; that's just the more 'specific' version.

[imo518]

Yes this was a huge storm but it wasnt a hurricane, hurricanes need to occur over warm tropical seas of temperates above 27 degrees C to a depth of 70m. We don't get those conditions in or near England. It was just a very large intense depression (yes i know hurricanes are intense low pressure systems).

and to say "the death toll is rising" is a bit ridiculous when only 18 people died, if you go to anywhere else in the world, only 18 people would be a miracle for a natural disaster.

[imo518]

Yes this was a huge storm but it wasnt a hurricane, hurricanes need to occur over warm tropical seas of temperates above 27 degrees C to a depth of 70m. We don't get those conditions in or near England. It was just a very large intense depression (yes i know hurricanes are intense low pressure systems).

and to say "the death toll is rising" is a bit ridiculous when only 18 people died, if you go to anywhere else in the world, only 18 people would be a miracle for a natural disaster.

[imo518]

Yes this was a huge storm but it wasnt a hurricane, hurricanes need to occur over warm tropical seas of temperates above 27 degrees C to a depth of 70m. We don't get those conditions in or near England. It was just a very large intense depression (yes i know hurricanes are intense low pressure systems).

[DeathSlayer2]

I was born in 1987 muahahahaha!

[bbepinguin]

at 0:49 the middle of the hurricane is in bournemouth O_o at least i wasnt alive then

[barriejames007]

I remember it well was roofing at the time made a fortune for a few weeks. Looked out next morning most of the estate had missing roofs and the houses were 100 plus years old!!! It was evil that night and scarey

[cheesytriangle]

i dont remember this storm because i slept through it lol

[NPA1001]

Michael Fish was right it was not a Hurricane.... if you were living in Nuclear fall out Shelter you hardly felt it!!!

[krazbar1]

this is nothink i live in austraila we have 2 cyclones hitting us in abot 2 days both have about 200 k winds and i use to love in innisvale we had not more than 4 houses left after the storm it was like 340 k winds

[Knightoftheorient]

@krazbar1 This wasnt nothing mate, this storm produced 200kph winds aswell which is rougthly 125mph equivelent to a category 3 cyclone/hurricane! It caused £1.6billion worth of damage to homes and properties and £7billion in damages overall if you include the damage to trees etc.. Northern France actually recorded the strongest winds in this but nobody really ever mentions the fact it also effected them, gusts of upto 140mph where reported.

[krazbar1]

@Knightoftheorient .. the storm i just got hit by 1st 1 was about 150kph winds... 2nd 1 was a cata 5 300kph winds....

[Knightoftheorient]

@krazbar1 Yeah but how often do you get cata 5's, there extremely uncommon in America let alone Australia and I wasnt aware that Australia is renowned for getting lots of Cyclones, my relatives live in Perth and they've never experienced 1 in the 20 years they've been living out there, or is it the East coast that gets them? Still the 1st one you had was 150kph rougthly 90mph our 1987 storm was worse then that so stop saying it was nothing, it was extremely bad by most people's standards.

[krazbar1]

@Knightoftheorient srsly this storm was bad i know and the first 1 like pulled down trees n made it hard for us to prepair for the 2nd 1.... so it was bad... we have cyclones every year.. perth isnt really the cyclone area

[Knightoftheorient]

@krazbar1 Yes I can imagine that, at least your alright and you survived cat 5 sounds bad 300kph I make that rougthly 180mph so that is insane and far worse then anything we've ever had in England but the 1987 storm was still equivelant to a strong cat 2 to cat 3 in terms of the winds but didn't produce as much rain as a cyclone. It's a once in 50 to 100 year event over here too, we've had big storms since but nothing quite as extreme!

[krazbar1]

@Knightoftheorient yeah it was the biggest cyclone to hit the coast like the eye was 400km wide Go to google images type in cyclone yasi and have a look at the size of it... we are lucky we build cyclone proof houses now days so only 1 life was lost, but familys lifes destroyed. have a look :) back when this cyclone ont he video hit building wernt build as strong as they r now thats why so mnay people died :(

[ilovemoviesuk]

@Knightoftheorient no it was not lol . people took everything out of proportion and need to learn scientific facts about weather. A catagory 3 hurricane has SUSTAINED winds of 111MPH - 130MPH with gusts up to maybe 150MPH

The 87 storm had SUSTIANED winds of 46MPH with gusts up to 120MPH .

SLightly different lol

[abandon14]

@ilovemoviesuk if we get to the facts the tropical storm which sustains winds at 46 m/h is never to reach 120 m/h gust. you confused the data. first mesurement was taken at London weather centre, the second one represents gust coming from the southeast coast. it doesnt reflect the wind distribution of that storm. In fact at the coast sustained wind speed reached the hurricane force we are talking about, and numerous gusts went off the scale.

[ilovemoviesuk]

@abandon14 it wasnt a hurricane :rolls eyes:

[abandon14]

@ilovemoviesuk I didn't say it was. what I said was that the storm was the one of tropical origin. mind it it developed on a strong wave being left by hurricane floyd in 1987. it wasn't tropical cyclone, but had much of its characteristics.

[ilovemoviesuk]

@Knightoftheorient you are such an idiot LOL you cant compare this to a hurricane . let me repeat . SUSTAINED winds of 46MPH = pitiful. gusts are irrelevant. . sorry your just an idiot

[ilovemoviesuk]

@krazbar1 ignore him mate. He hasn't a clue

[Thunderwolf666]

Fairly certain this was God's response to Thatcher's economic reforms.

[thecritic2007]

i was 12 years old when this happened i thought it was the best thing ever lol i didnt think of the deaths and disaster it was just a adrenalin rush windows breaking objects flying trees falling roofs lifting what a rush.

[121sandstorm]

OOooo!!! i remember that night my god are windows got smashed that's when the lights out glass was everywhere flying in the dark it was dangerous, i live in London for us as the south east UK got it bad XXXXX

[iloveherforeverable]

I remeber you

[FunmazaPK]

Ocober the 15 1987 lol

the day the guy posted is nearly 20 years after

[YaWatBruv]

4 times the size of a Hurricane? wow and that was i think 4 years befor i was born if im 17 now? idont no, and i live in devon!!!

Nothing ever happens maybe the storm will come back?

[jugglermalc]

thanks this helped with my geography homework!

[transonicbuoy1]

"Faced the face of Britain - forever." How?

[richsoll]

I was 7.. Lived in Sussex..slept right through.. :)

[dsBear]

Hey EdM021 wrong storm dude, yours never reached us. This storm was born in the Bay of Biscay

[kingofkeyboards]

whats the name of the song in the background at 3:17? I really need to know if anyone can tell me thanks.

[crowhillian58]

The Wind Cries Mary. Jimmy Hendrix

[EdM021]

The Met's prediction was flat wrong! We in the US Gulf Coast know that hurricanes ALWAYS veer east. And this one did just that.

[Knightoftheorient]

@EdM021 Are you confirming for us as an American who's probably experienced a few hurricane's in your time that this was indeed a hurricane? Lol :) I'm not sure it was technically a hurricane cause we arnt surrounded by troppical waters here in the UK so it's impossible to get an official hurricane, 1 which has a formed eye etc.. but it certainly produced hurricane-force winds and had a cyclonic movement.

[EdM021]

@Knightoftheorient They're not supposed to form up there that late in the year, but IIRC, that one in your country had an eye!

Hurricane force winds + cyclonic action + an eye = a hurricane.

[evansc09]

omg

[billy2775]

i was 11 in billericay essex, my dad came and got me out of bed at 2am saying thehouse was moving, was such a strange feeling outside, never felt anything like it before or after, almost perfect calm

[MrSeth6661987]

hello

[MrSeth6661987]

i was born during it in the william harvey hospital in kent UK

[wcboggs]

I was living on the Isle Of Wight at the time. I will always remember hearing and seeing a neighbours greenhouse sliding down the road.

[flowerwht]

lol thats funny XP

[okuma0kuma]

brings back memory's only damage was my room window cracked and window in parents room went missing never did find out were the window frame went

[flowerwht]

lol thats funny XP

[cheekyegg]

what scares me more is that was 22 years ago.

[moutsounas14]

which is the song??? plzz answer

[laiosto]

What planet have you been living on? How can you not know Jimi Hendrix's masterpiece "The wind cries Mary"?Young people today!

[dand1977]

This was stronger than hurricane force winds, I think at 1 point they were gonna call it Hurricane Michael after the whether man that didn't predict it. In the end its just been known as the great storm, we are set for a big bad storm on Wednesday.

[anakaday]

We did lose 15 million trees.

100s of forests were down. It's like happening in concentrated areas in and around New York.

It covered an area 100 miles x 170 miles and 15-20 million people were affected.

London was down, the South and the South East. That hurricaine must have been faster than 108 miles per hour. We have had 80-90 winds and it doesn't do more than make trees sway. The oak trees in Seven Oaks were several hundred years old with huge trunks and deep roots.

[anakaday]

Actually looking at that map the size of the thing looks like 250 miles diameter. 100s of forests 10-20 miles wide knocked down. Massive Cranes were knocked down at ports. Giant tankers thrown onto the shore. Buildings were knocked down. This was like a massive F2/F3 tornado without the touch down.

It must have been in excess of 150 miles per hour in places to move giant metal objects.

[Bendarunt21]

noo

[Knightoftheorient]

@anakaday They where more then 108mph mate, the windspeeds which are mentioned where those which where recorded before wind measurers where broken and couldn't take readings any longer. In Kent and on the south coast winds of over 120mph where recorded so I imagine out in the channel winds of 150mph where feasible, I know for a fact that somewhere near the north French coast reported 134mph and 140mph unconfirmed. The winds in London and Essex where 90-110mph but perhaps more locally 120mph.

[phoenixshade3]

Funny how so many want to pin the blame on Michael Fish. Never mind that Bill Giles also said that the brunt of the storm would stay south and that it would only be "a bit breezy up the Channel." Never mind that the Thatcher administration axed weather ships that would have provided more accurate data. Yeah, let's all get together and say that Fish did it.

Geniuses.

[motherfunky1]

Fish did it

[davie732]

I remeber this night like it was yesterday, i was 7 and i went to bed, and waking up in the night to an almighty CRASH! I was so scared as ive never heard winds that powerful! All the streetlights were out, and it was pitch black. Load noises hurling around the house.

[randomdude5542]

and they say in school we dont get hurricanes and stuff lol

[Knightoftheorient]

Urm some trees, 15 million trees dumbarse do ur research! This was a storm equivelant to a category 2/3 hurricane!

[ilovemoviesuk]

@Knightoftheorient nope

[2puttking]

A couple of caravans..my wifes nursery lost her lounge window,her shed ended up on her car and her friends house in canterbury was completely destroyed..so it wasnt just a few caravans

[stewdabest1]

michael fish is the cause he said there was gonna be one thts a billion pounds of ur pay check gone

[millsathn]

why? even if they knew it was coming then its still going to cause 1billion worth of damage.

[SSJ3raditz]

"HURRICUN"

oh you silly Europeans and your pronunciations

[footiemad87]

the way its meant to be said isnt it?

[stewdabest1]

u got a problem with europeans ass hole

[stuskool]

"...CHANGED THE FACE OF BRITAIN, FOREVER"

Bit of an overstatement isnt it? more like, blew some trees over and a couple of caravans.

[MarmiteGivesLife]

I was born on the 7th of October in Chatham all saints hospital in Kent, I was 1lb 9.75oz so I was pretty small so they stuck me in an incubator, when the storm hit the power went out in the hospital, thankfully the generators kicked in and I lived lol

My mum was near death at the time because of the difficult birth, she had no idea that there was a hurricane she just thought it was a very windy night.

[Skateprep26]

not the song at the beginning, the beep, beep song all through the rest of the video!

[Skateprep26]

whats that scary song in it called?

[alfasdelpi]

The Wind Cries Mary...Jimmy Hendrix

[06mgibson]

@alfasdelpi jimi*

[Seam1987]

Dont remember much of this as i was born during the storm. Parents always called me the devil child lol

[footiemad87]

as frankie boyle said on mock the week, ' 'i like to make love in a storm and imagine im concieving the antichrist' haha thts col

[EveryBodyH8sMe]

the funiest thing was micheal fish's weather report the night be4

[bikerchickfrommars]

Great! Memories rush back alright. I was living in Essex; semi rural area. Trees uprooted, telegraph poles down, rooves shredded. The damage was horrendous, so much destruction. I was at a party, thought it was windy, staggered home over trees, slept through the rest of the night and woke to absolute mess.

[dindins121]

Wow that was so creepy that night i didn't know what it was are windows was smashed everything was flying then we had a power cut we could not see anything the wind was so loud i was 8 years and i still remember the horrific sounds of that wind and heavy rain.

[covladuk1985]

Where is part 2?

[mumofpickles]

I was 11 when this happened and woke to it in the night i lived in north west london and it was scary as hell but it is interesting to watch

[jdb47games]

I was in Croydon too. The storm blew my motorcycle over. No wind before or after has ever managed that. The street was littered with debris, including one chimney pot and several roof tiles.

[beegges0]

i Remember when i was 7 year old i went to bed

i think it was midnight the wind was blowing like Hell i was living in croydon went it happen.

That night was crazy shit

[5manarmy]

worthing high 1996-2000 cant believe that was our school respect to mr stevens and mr katchmarak and the staff for keeping their pupils safe i was only 3 going on 4 but i still remember that night and the morning after. kind of stays with you i dont think our winter weather patterns have been the same since then. winter 86/87 last really cold winter? just a theory tho.

[mrconveen]

I was living in North London (which was heavily hit by the hurricaine) .... I slept through the whole thing!!

... but when I woke up in the morning, what a mess, a huge sycamore tree down the bottom of my garden had been completely uprooted, chimney pots and branches were lying in the road.

[djcarbines]

Remember this well. I was six in Lancing (2 miles from Worthing, featured in the film). Felt like huge boulders falling on the roof all night. Woke up and saw many houses without rooves and seaweed 1/2 mile up from the bech and hundreds of fish on the beach. For those younger users, nothing has come close to this since in UK. Quite close to Hurricane Katrina possibly. Probably won't happen again in my lifetime.

[madmacks61]

I remember living in my flat on Brighton Road on the Shoreham / Lancing border when this happened and it was brutal, I remember a row boat being blown along the road just outside my front window, the window was bowing in as it was the one facing south. Moved to the South Carolina coast in the early 90's to escape too better weather......who knew!

[SonicGeneration]

No it was not like hurricane katrina, it was something like hurricane Lloyd or something that crossed the ocean to england

[Knightoftheorient]

@djcarbines Quite close to hurricane katrina, urm no way my friend. Yes it was very bad, exceptional by British standards but this would just be an average storm/mild hurricane in America maybe a strong category 2 but katrina was a category 5 with winds nearly twice the strength of this, gusts nudging 200mph lol so considerably worse!

[abandon14]

@Knightoftheorient at landfall Katrina was nothing more like a strong category 3 storm. the great storm's windfield, however covered much bigger area. it was a weaker storm, regarding wind speed than Katrina, nevertheless.

[rangey18]

My cousin was reading lotr and he was up to the bit where the nazgul came that night.

[KevCityboy]

That clip when the firemen are going on call. I didn't realise until I watched this a couple of weeks ago that it was that fire engine that was hit and the two firemen were gone just like that. It must have been horrific for the other two and the families.

[ChrissyboyH44]

I remember it so well.. and I had only just turned 7 years old! I remember me dad had to come in my room in the middle of the night to block the air vent up coz of all the noise. It was the most strangest eary noise ive never heard to this day. I remember having to go back to school the following week and write a story of how it affected us all individually.. was a bit much to ask of 6-7 year olds but still! Never will forget 15/10/87!

[zoejbm]

Yeah I was 7 too and also had to write about how it affected us, all I remember from back then is the noise, colouring my little pony pictures in the middle of the house, and the fact that my neighbours swing, slide and climbing frame ended up in my garden!

[phlskl]

It will happen again nobody knows when but it will happen

[ShadowSonicSuper]

True, it will happen, we might not be a tropical area, but we can ge tthe most powerful weather from time to time

[topsecret362]

@phlskl I can't wait to experience it as i was not around in 1987

[ukburger]

I watched on TV last night ( 13-4-2008 ) and it was very disturbing to see how black the storm cloudes were over London and the fact that London was powerless over night.

[suziemufc]

I was 6 at the time, and I'll never forget the noise because my bedroom window faced the direction the wind was coming from. It was terrifying, I had to get into bed with my mum because I was so scared. That was about 1am.

[audiofreeq]

a bit of bad weather,i was more worried about the lack of mains electricity,that we lost at 3:30am,,

[Ansuzie]

That looked really scary. I'm glad I wasn't alive then.

What's been the worse storm since? Cos the one on 10/3/08 was quite strong, but aparently no where near.

I thought it was 18 people, not 19.

[Knightoftheorient]

@Ansuzie Dont know if your old enougth to remember it and where abouts you live but the closest storm I can remember was probably the 1 back on the night of 29th/30th october 2000, we had gusts of 80-90mph and driving rain my windows where shaking! But apparently it was still some way off being as strong as 87 storm.

[rubys200777]

i remember this all the electric went of and the noise was so bad like a hundred people screaming

[RowanAthikson]

I called it:

Hurricane 'Michael' Fish

[alfasdelpi]

According to a programme I watched on TV last night the highest official wind speed was 117mph recorded at Shoreham By Sea. West Sussex.

[bloggulator]

And in NW France, the highest official windspeeds were up to 137mph. There was one unofficial reading of a 145mph gust on a ship in the English Channel.

[Knightoftheorient]

@bloggulator That unofficial reading on the ship wouldn't surprise me at all, the winds are always at their worst out at sea. Gusts where in excess of 100mph in London so I imagine in the channel 130-150mph regularly, probably 90mph plus sustained winds.

[RowanAthikson]

Sorry with the wrong comment 1 month ago because when i watching the internet connection is so slow it's complete in :44.

[rhyperior212]

Ahh, I remember this... I was 29 back then...

[DeoxysvRayquaza1]

My teacher said she was 7 when this happened.

[daveclarke1977]

Re "

TheMessiah79

Judging by the satellite pictures that definitely looked like a hurricane as it had an 'eye' and as far as I'm concerned it was..."

This wasn't satellite footage of Oct 87, but mocked up footage of somewhere else! The satellite images of Oct 87 are nothing special tbh.

[TheMessiah79]

They made it all up then?

[tl54]

were there any twisters spawned by this thing

[bloggulator]

This was a frontal depression, not a hurricane. Did the winds reach hurricane force? According to the Met Office, yes, locally. BUT.. there are several standards for averaging sustained winds over time; UK met.office requires 1 hr. US National Hurricane Center (NOAA) qualification for "hurricane" in tropical systems is 74mph over one minute. Royal Sovereign Lightship recorded 86mph sustained over one hour.

[RowanAthikson]

Oops Sorry i maybe wrong

[RowanAthikson]

Hurricane 'Michael Fish' is baddest storm in 300 years

'Big Storm' that hit England is the baddest storm in history

Many people dead in 'Big Storm' because no warning

'Big Storm' hit:

>Northern Britain

>Northern Republic Ireland

>Northern Ireland

>Some parts of Wales

>Whole Scotland

[alfasdelpi]

There are a few stories untold here. Firstly there is no such thing as a force 11 gale. Force 8 gale, severe gale 9, storm 10, severe storm 11, Hurricanne 12. Shoreham Coastguard Station recorded 120 mph. Their equipment was not calibrated above this figure. In effect it went off the clock. Jim Partridge, Shoreham Lifeboat Station Hon Sec recorded 129mph on equipment at the fishemens quay in Shoreham. I was driving a fire appliance in Shoreham on that night. It was scary!

[TheMessiah79]

So what about the reamnants of hurricane Lili from 1996 which hit the uk as a and hurricanes Debbie from 1961 and Gordon & Helene from 2006 which got fairly close?

Hurricane Mitch from 1998 one of the worst hurricanes ever also dissiapted north of Britain

In another Youtube clip part of the storm actually came from the mid - atlantic between the Azores and Bermuda, just one thing we'll never know the real truth to, just everyones accounts

[lethalman3000]

cool video can anyone upload the tv Documentary of the 1987 great storm from october this year 2007. chers thank you nick dorset.

[TheMessiah79]

Judging by the satellite pictures that definitely looked like a hurricane as it had an 'eye' and as far as I'm concerned it was...

I was 8 at the time but I remember it well, as I heard a lot of noise outside and found that a small tree opposite my home had blown over

[JonnyE]

Hurricanes are tropical systems, we do not live in a tropical climate. The seas are far too cold. And I am pretty sure Britain doesn't have palm trees. The storm of '87 formed in an environment hostile to hurricanes.