Cyclones and the Winter Gales of Europe

Abstract

MR. S. A. HILL, in NATURE, vol. xviii. p. 617, compares together the number of hours of high wind in the British Isles with the number of West Indian cyclones observed in each year from l869 to 1874. It may be interesting to add the result given by the Royal Observatory register. The hourly values of velocity in the years mentioned have not yet been tabulated, but adopting for comparison the number of days on which the daily velocity exceeded 500 miles, we have counted up the number of such days in each year, which numbers, for more ready comparison with those given in NATURE, we have multiplied by a constant. The comparison with the values previously printed in NATURE then stands as follows:—