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Irish Famine (1740–1741) Somewhere between 310,000 and 480,000 people starve in Ireland due to cold weather affecting harvests. 1816–19: Typhus epidemic: Outbreak in Ireland. 1839: Night of the Big Wind: A European windstorm swept across Ireland causing hundreds of deaths and severe damage to property. Gusts were over 100 knots (190 km/h ...
The following list of disasters in Great Britain and Ireland is a list of major disasters (excluding acts of war [a]) which relate to the United Kingdom, Ireland or the Isle of Man, or to the states that preceded them, or that involved their citizens, in a definable incident or accident such as a shipwreck, where the loss of life was forty or more.
The Night of the Big Wind (Irish: Oíche na Gaoithe Móire) was a powerful European windstorm that swept across what was then the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, beginning on the afternoon of 6 January 1839, causing severe damage to property and several hundred deaths. 20 to 25% of houses in north Dublin were damaged or destroyed, and 42 ships were wrecked. [1]
These massive storms made their mark on history and tragically claimed the lives of many people. Skip to main content. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: ...
This storm was described as the worst in Scotland since the Boxing Day Storm of 1998 by the UK Met Office. [141] Storm Andrea: 3–9 January 2012: 966 hPa (28.5 inHg) [142] Closely following Cyclone Ulli, the first named storm of 2012 formed southwest of Iceland, moving down into the North Sea affecting UK, Netherlands, Denmark and Germany ...
On 22 January 2025, the Irish meteorological service Met Éireann issued an orange wind warning for 26 counties of Ireland for the period 02:00 to 17:00 UTC/GMT on 24 January 2025 [21] and a red wind warning for counties Clare, Cork, Kerry and Limerick covering the period 03:00 to 10:00 on 24 January 2025 in anticipation of the storm's arrival ...
Hurricane Ophelia (known as Storm Ophelia in Ireland and the United Kingdom while extratropical) was regarded as the worst storm to affect Ireland in 50 years, and was also the easternmost Atlantic major hurricane [nb 1] on record. [2]
The Royal Charter Storm (also known as the Great storm of 1859) [1] of 25 and 26 October 1859 was considered to be the most severe storm to hit the Irish Sea in the 19th century, [2] [3] with a total death toll estimated at over 800.