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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; 120 mph). 1840s: Great Famine (Ireland) Starvation events. Killed over 400,000 people from starvation and disease. 1918–19: 1918 flu pandemic
The last major epidemic of the bubonic plague to occur in England. 65,000: Year Without a Summer: 1816: Famine and typhoid fever in Ireland [16] and food riots in England and France, caused by the 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora affecting the weather. 60,000 [17] 1847–48 influenza pandemic: 1847–1848: Worldwide influenza outbreak. 52,627 [18 ...
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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 ...
At the time, it was the worst storm to hit Ireland for 300 years. [3] [4] Liverpool also suffered severely, with many shipwrecks and much structural damage. 120 people died as a result of such accidents in the city alone. Two major shipwrecks resulted in damage of at least £500,000, equivalent to £56,000,000 in 2023. [5]
The 2008 Irish flash floods were a series of flash floods that occurred across the island of Ireland in August 2008. The floods and related weather conditions primarily affected the following counties; Limerick , Cork , Dublin , Antrim , Carlow , Galway , Laois , Louth , Meath , Kildare , Kilkenny , Tipperary , Offaly , Sligo and Donegal .
Storm tide 589: Breach at Cucca: Italy: 1170: All Saints' Flood (1170) Netherlands: probably many thousands: Storm surge 1287: South England flood of February 1287: England: probably many thousands: Storm surge 1287: St. Lucia's flood: Netherlands, Northern Germany, England: 50,000-80,000: Storm surge 1304: All Saints' Flood (1304) Germany: 271 ...
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