Bishop Hill January hurricanes
Jan 17, 2016 Climate: WG2 
There has been a certain amount of interest in a tropic weather system, christened Hurricane Alex, which is apparently the first Atlantic hurricane for nearly a century:
Alex first became a hurricane in the eastern Atlantic Ocean Thursday, making it just the second hurricane on record to form in that basin during the month of January. The last hurricane that formed in the Atlantic during January was in 1938, according to NOAA's historical hurricane tracker database.
It seems to have hit the Azores on Friday, albeit by then it was only a tropical storm.
However, this "from the archives" piece in the Scotsman documents a considerably more recent Atlantic hurricane, albeit at the western end of the ocean, in Glasgow.
Our nation is no stranger to howling winds and dangerous weather, as nearly 50 years ago 20 Scots died across the country during the storm.
Homes, shops, cars and churches were all desolated by the strong gusts brought on by Hurricane Low Q, which first hit land on the night of 14 January 1968.
;)
Perhaps this one formed in December and only made landfall in January.
Reader Comments (58)
Club another seal and toss it on the barbie- Dame Alla has been on board the Titanic ever since it struck the urban heat island CAGW climate hoaxers insist on calling an iceberg..
vvussell, should you marinade seal before cooking it, and does bristlecone pine charcoal make good fuel for al fresco 'cooking'.
I remember it too. It knackered our garage and the school had no-go areas in the playground.
Just for Russel and the linear mindset he seemingly only acquired late in life:
http://www.theguardian.com/news/2014/apr/27/weatherwatch-icebergs-greenland-titanic
"Did warm weather cause the Titanic disaster?...
the catastrophe may have been set in motion by a warm, wet year over Greenland in 1908, resulting in greater snow accumulation. Writing in the journal Weather, Grant Bigg and David Wilton of Sheffield University explain how the snow soaked through cracks in the ice sheet, encouraging excess iceberg calving over the following few years."
GWPF scientists have proven the CAGW hoax began the night the Titanic sank the iceberg.
vvussell demonstrates Titanic faith in the unsinkable mindset of Global Warming alarmism.
Golf charlie will now lead the episcopal choir in singing 'Nearer my Josh to Thee ."
In WW2 - back in the days before global warming - the NA convoys only had to contend with U-boats, torpedoes and the occasional Bismark. Otherwise it was just plain sailing as there were of course no NA storms back then.