The Storm Of The Century
By Paul Homewood
Terms like Superstorm and Storm of the Century are often bandied about, but what caused the “No Name Storm” which hit the US in March 1993 definitely warranted these epithets.
It spawned a derecho and tornadoes in Florida, where the storm surge wiped out coastal communities. The storm then headed north bringing record snowfall, floods and hurricane force winds in its wake as far as Canada. The whole of the eastern third of the US was affected, with 318 left dead.
Even after the storm had passed, its effects lingered for weeks. So much snow had fallen, that when it melted it resulted in river floods.
This film was put together by the Weather Channel a year after the storm, hence the poor video quality, but it is the best I have found. It lasts half an hour, but it is really fascinating to watch, since the storm was still fresh in people’s minds:
There are claims nowadays that global warming is making these sort of extratropical storms more powerful, hence the absurd media overreaction to Ciaran this month. The logic seems to be that climate change is supposed to make every weather more extreme. In reality the opposite is the case, as HH Lamb knew decades ago.
What powers these storms is the clash of cold and warm air; the bigger the differential in temperature, the more powerful the storm. That is why winter storms are always stronger and bigger – during winter the Arctic cools rapidly as the sun sets, while the tropics remain as warm as before.
As during periods of global warming the Arctic warms faster than the tropics , this differential is therefore reduced.
In the winter of 1993, when massive powerful storms also hit Britain, the Arctic was much colder than normal, after decades of global cooling; this factor was the root cause of these storms:
https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/maps/
The film finishes by reflecting on the bitterly cold winter of 1994 just passed, a reminder of what extreme weather really looks like!
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
And in 1991 there was “The Perfect Storm.”
In those days before the absurdist beliefs that the Marxists have inculcated in the so-called intelligentsia were all the rage, Hollywood just treated “disasters”
as simple cases of foolish or unlucky men, underestimating the eternal verity that this planet is a dangerous place to be a Naked Ape.
The late 80s through to latter 90’s were clearly a very stormy period. Worth reposting a recent link of mine. This was how bad it was on the south Kent coast at various times. If were to happen again guess what it would be blamed on.
http://archive.sandgatesociety.com/113
Having a pint in wellies seems a good idea!
Just in case you thought that flooding only happened in the countryside and coasts, here’s so achive of a flood in SE London in 1968. I remember it well as I drove a bus through it and got a rollocking for doing so. It wasn’t the one in the picture. Certainly had plenty of rain and I was living about a mile away from Lewisham at the time. The river Quaggy, which runs through Lewisham, burst it’s banks but it wasn’t the first time this had happened. The clue is in the name of the river. It is thought to have it’s origins back in time when Quagmire was used to describe the area in times of high rainfall.
https://qwag.org.uk/remembering-lewishams-1968-floods-and-lessons-50-years-on/
These are not the Sharknado Warmunism reporters are looking for.