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.
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Perhaps this one formed in December and only made landfall in January.