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THE last day of the old year and the first few days of the new have proved remarkably tempestuous on the North Atlantic. During the near approach to Ireland on December 31 of an exceptionally intense cyclonic depression, a destructive gale occurred in Ireland. At Valentia Observatory the pressure tube anemograph registered a gust of 96 miles an hour, which is the highest gust recorded there for at least sixteen years. Barometric readings in Iceland were unusually low during the three first days of 1933. On January 3, pressure at sea-level was less than 928 millibars (27.4 in.) near the centre of a depression lying off the south-west coast of Iceland, but it is not possible to say by how much it fell below that value. That depression was certainly among the deepest of which we have any record since daily synoptic weather charts of the North Atlantic were first begun. On those prepared and published by the Danish and German Admiralties, there is only one depression which looks to have had such a low reading, that of February 24, 1903, which had been preceded five days earlier by another only slightly less intense.
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North Atlantic Gale. Nature 131, 18–19 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/131018c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/131018c0