Epic weather fails: when the forecasters got it badly wrong
Rachel Truman
24 March 2021
In the eye of the storm
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1888: the Schoolhouse Blizzard, USA
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1888: Blizzard, USA
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1922: Knickerbocker Storm, USA
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1925: Tri-State Tornado, USA
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1948: Tinker Air Force Base tornadoes, USA
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1953: Storm of the century, UK and Netherlands
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1967: Chicago Blizzard, USA
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1970: Blizzard, UK
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1976: Heatwave, UK
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1985: Hurricane Elena, USA
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1987: the Great Storm, UK
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2004: Hurricane Charley, USA
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2004: Boscastle flood, UK
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2009: Barbecue summer, UK
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2009: Cold snap, UK
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2009: Drought, India
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2010: Typhoon Conson, Philipines
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2010-11: Cold winter, Britain
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2012: Superstorm Sandy, USA
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2014: Brisbane hailstorm, Australia
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2015: Tropical Storm Erika, Caribbean
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2015: New York blizzard no-show, USA
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2015: Forest fires, Indonesia
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2017: Hurricane Maria, Caribbean
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2017: Hurricane Patricia, Mexico
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2017: Cyclone Cook, New Zealand
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2018: Bank holiday blunder, UK
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2019: Guadalajara hailstorm, Mexico
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2019: Weather bomb, Greece
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2020: Nashville tornadoes, USA
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2022: Budapest's storm that never came
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