The Great Storm, 16 October 1987
A4
£24.00
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The Great Storm, 16 October 1987
£24.00
Print only, frame not included. UK delivery usually 4 to 8 working days.
The night the south of England woke up to fallen trees.
What you get: An unframed print on heavyweight 240 gsm matte fine art paper, A4 (210 x 297 mm), A3 (297 x 420 mm) or A2 (420 x 594 mm), usually sent rolled in a tube. The print shown.
The wind at 02:00 BST on 16 October 1987, as the low reached the south coast an hour after its deepest: colour for the strongest gust, the wind's flow in white, and the red line of the deepest low through the night and the day either side.
- Highest gust measured: 115 mph at Shoreham
- The low at its deepest: 952 hPa
- Isobars every 4 hPa
Read the story of the night, hour by hour →
Where the weather comes from
The colours are ERA5 reanalysis gusts, averaged over squares of 28 km. The gust the print states is the day's highest measured at a Met Office weather station, named and circled on the map (stations on mountain tops are left out, and named in the caption). Data: ERA5, ECMWF (Copernicus Climate Change Service), CC BY 4.0. Station gusts: Met Office MIDAS Open via CEDA, Open Government Licence. Credits are printed on every sheet.
Print details and delivery
- Sizes: A4 (210 x 297 mm), A3 (297 x 420 mm), A2 (420 x 594 mm).
- Paper: heavyweight matte fine art paper (240 gsm), bright white, smooth with a fine grain.
- Inks: giclée printing in pigment-based archival inks.
- Printed to the edge of the sheet, with no border added. Each design keeps its own margin, so nothing important sits near the trim.
- Unframed, and usually sent rolled in a tube. Made to order, then printed and sent to you.
- Delivery: most UK orders arrive in 4 to 8 working days (1 to 4 days to print, then 2 to 3 days by courier). See the shipping page.
- Colours differ a little between a screen and paper.