Quote Originally Posted by Dubbag View Post
It's course Leicester was always more north westerly and targeting Ireland as a whole and northern Scotland. Many places further south will have had a pleasant day for sure. I lived through the famous hurricane of 1987 down on the Isle of Wight. People further north didn't know what all the fuss was about...
As Leicester is in the middle of the country, we often tend to miss the worst of the weather. We did have a tornado a few years ago but it didn?t hit the part of the village where we live. It happened at lunch time and we only knew about when we saw it on the Midland News.