So Violent A Sea & Wind
October 10, 2023
By Paul Homewood
I’m reading Neil Hanson’s book “The Confident Hope of a Miracle”, about the Spanish Armada.
We are obviously all aware of the storm that swept the Armada to oblivion in 1588.
But Hanson goes into detail on two other storms that summer, both evidently exceptional in their own way:
None of this would have come as any surprise to HH Lamb, who wrote about it in “Climate, History and the Modern World”:
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
And the great storm of 1287 which GAVE BACK a lot of land, so much for rising sea levels. And the great storm immediately after the Battle of Trafalgar 1805 which killed more sailors than the battle itself!
That 1805 storm sank most of the captured French and Spanish ships depriving the British sailors of prize money.
I remember visiting the Culbin Sands in about 1961 or 62 with my dad. By that time a lot of the trees planted from the 1920s were quite mature. There’s a lot of sand in that area, at one time classed as britain’s only desert. The forest was an amazing place trees growing from huge dunes which I can still visualise, most likely the dunes have ground in my memory during the intervening decades. There’s probably a lot better access these days.
A major part of the problem was caused by deforestation which allowed the storm to get at the unprotected sand and soil. If it were to happen tomorrow than Climate Change would be the cause.
I’ve written a historical novel based around the true story of the Falmouth packet ship Hanover in December 1763 en route from Lisbon to Falmouth. The ship was caught in hurricane force winds and driven across the scillies and into the entrance to the Bristol Channel where it foundered on rocks near Perranporth in Cornwall. During my research I found numerous reports of hurricane force winds at that time, which caused much structural damage, felling of trees and floods. I believe nowadays it’s called exceptional weather that has never happened before.
Cc the Met Office. Excerpts much appreciated.
O/T: I have just seen the BBC weather forecast. It reported a 10 degree difference between Writtle in Essex and Lerwick today. By Thursday the temperature in Writtle will be 6 degrees cooler.
I have not heard of community collapse in either nor have roads buckled nor have farmers stopped tending their fields.
Meanwhile we are instructed to quake about a 1.5 degree rise over 100 years.
That’s nothing! In SW France we are forecast 31 for Friday and 17 for Sunday. Minimums are going from 15 to 4. In other words, back to a cool October, which strongly suggests the recent warm weather is simply a temporary weather phenomenon.
One of many occasions Almighty God intervened in British history.
Think Dunkirk sea state, storms before Agincourt …
The Great Storm of 1703. This video by Fred Olsen is well worth a watch.
I’m reading Arthur Hailey’s “Overload.” It’s a pre-warmunism novel about anti-energy fanatics.