Storm Force

Britain's wildest weather.

By Michael Fish MBE, Ian McCaskill and Paul Hudson.

TV weathermen Michael Fish MBE, Ian McCaskill and Paul Hudson recall the most devastating gales and ferocious floods in Britain's history.

Using pictures and news reports from national and regional archives, Storm Force recalls the most amazing episodes of weather that have left trails of death and destruction across the UK. Storm Force is full of extraordinary human stories, by turns amusing, inspiring, astonishing and downright weird!

Storms are the most eye-catching of all types of weather and often hit the headlines. They can bring violent winds, torrential rain, thunder, lightning, devastating hailstones and, sometimes, waterspouts and tornadoes. The consequences range from death and destruction on a horrendous scale to shipwrecks and flooding of biblical proportions.

This book, written by three well-known TV weather forecasters, is published to mark the twentieth anniversary of the October 1987 hurricane with which Michael Fish will forever be associated. This great storm, which flattened much of south-eastern England, receives detailed coverage as do many other instances of weather at its worst. Here are extraordinary human stories recalling the appalling havoc wrought along England's East Coast in January 1953, the millions of pounds of damage following the infamous Burns Night storm in Scotland, 1990, and flood disasters including Lynmouth, Boscastle and more recently the extraordinary June 2007 floods.

The increasing incidence of violent storms as a result of climate change receives full attention. A sequel to the same authors' best-selling Frozen in Time, this is a book with many dramatic photographs that also provides an exciting read and is at the same time immensely thought provoking.

• Publication October 2007

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