What the records say
- When
- 1 Jan 1992
- Kind
- Event
- Coordinates
- 60.75° N, 0.89° W
- Description
- The 1992 New Year's Day Storm.
Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, 1992 New Year's Day Storm.
1992 New Year's Day Storm
European windstorm in 1992
The New Year's Day Storm, known in Scotland as the 'Hogmanay Hurricane', was an extremely powerful and record-breaking European windstorm, comparable to a category 4 major hurricane, that affected much of northern Scotland and western Norway on 1 January 1992. DNMI estimated the strongest sustained winds and the strongest gusts to have reached 103 mph and 138 mph, respectively.
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