The great storm and the fall of the first Tay Rail Bridge

Burt, Peter

doi:10.1256/wea.199.04

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“…The temporal development of the 0.995 sigma level winds near Dundee (lowest panel) fits very well with contemporary reports summarised by LAMB (1991) and BURT (2004). BURT (2004) mentions that the wind was already strong during the previous night and morning.…”

Section: Historical Stormssupporting

confidence: 85%

“…It is notorious because it killed 75 people (BURT, 2004) and destroyed the Tay bridge -the much admired, brand new, longest bridge in the world at that time (Figure 2, central row, left). The storm was strong, but according to BURT (2004) less severe than a few other well-known storms in Scotland.…”

Section: Historical Stormsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The upper-level fields from the 20CR show that the secondary low formed in the left exit region of a strong jet over the Atlantic. BURT (2004) reports maximum wind speeds of ca. 36 m/s, with possible gusts up to ca.…”

Section: Historical Stormsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…47 m/s in the Firth of Tay region for the evening of the day. Local factors, among them the west-east orientation and topographical features of the Firth of Tay, could have contributed to the high wind speeds (BURT, 2004).…”

Section: Historical Stormsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These storms include the one causing the "Tay Bridge disaster" in Scotland in 1879 (BURT, 2004), a Föhn storm in Switzerland in 1919(FREY, 1926, and the "Armistice Day storm" in the USA in 1940 (KNARR, 1941). These storms are representative of extreme wind situations in Europe and North America, all of which were related to extratropical cyclones.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Extreme winds at northern mid-latitudes since 1871

Brönnimann¹,

Martius²,

Waldow³

et al. 2012

metz

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Studying a sufficiently large sample of extremes or analysing the statistics of their occurrence, including trends, is hampered by the length of the existing observation-based record. New data sets such as the Twentieth Century Reanalysis (20CR), which consists of an ensemble of 56 members, significantly extend our record back in time. In this paper, we present examples of extremes of winds at northern hemisphere mid-latitudes in 20CR to illustrate challenges and opportunities for analysing extremes over a longer period than previously possible. For four representative storms from Europe and North America, 20CR provides a relatively good depiction of the synoptic-scale meteorological development, although it misses smaller scale features as well as local effects due to orography. For analysing trends of extreme winds, it is shown that the individual ensemble members should be used, rather than the ensemble mean, which appears to be biased towards lower wind speeds early in the record. For the studied locations, decadal variability and trends can best be characterised after around 1950, when the ensemble variance remains consistent. Different methodological approaches for studying changes in extreme winds are discussed. Finally, we show hemispheric maps of trends in extreme wind speeds since 1950.

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Section: Historical Stormssupporting

confidence: 85%

Section: Historical Stormsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Historical Stormsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Historical Stormsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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