On Oct 8, 8:26*pm, Weatherlawyer wrote:
On Oct 8, 8:15*am, Paul Hyett wrote:

On Tue, 7 Oct 2008 at 20:43:48, Nick Gardner
wrote in uk.sci.weather :

What a wild, wet and windy spell starting in the early hours this morning.

Indeed.

Even my overly sheltered wind gauge managed to record its first 20mph gust, yesterday.

What were you expecting in October?

* * Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness?

* * Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
* * Conspiring with him how to load and bless
* * With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;
* * To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees,
* * And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core?

* * To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
* * With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
* * And still more, later flowers for the bees,
* * Until they think warm days will never cease,
* * For Summer has o’er-brimm’d their clammy cells.

* * * * * * * * * * * * John Keats
* * * * * * * * * * To Autumn, 1820:

Autumn 1820:

1st Aug = 05:56 = 6 = Overcast, low cloud.

8th August = 21:46 = 22 = 4.
17th August = 01:57 = 2.
23rd August = 22:33 = 4.
30th August = 14:39 = 2.
7th September = 13:50 = 2.
15th September = 14:14 = 2.

What a pile up. A series just like this year.

22nd September = 06:41 = Wet.
29th September = 02:53 = Thundery.
7th October = 07:03 = Wet.
15th October = 00:38 = 6 = Overcast, low cloud.
21st October = 16:01 = 4.
28th October = 19:11 = 7 = Wet

I bet there were a lot of hurricanes that year.

Funny you should choose to illustrate the poem (I love Keats!) by
reference to Hurricanes in 1820. The poem wasn't written in 1820.