So Violent A Sea & Wind

By Paul Homewood

I’m reading Neil Hanson’s book “The Confident Hope of a Miracle”, about the Spanish Armada.

We are obviously all aware of the storm that swept the Armada to oblivion in 1588.

But Hanson goes into detail on two other storms that summer, both evidently exceptional in their own way:

 

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None of this would have come as any surprise to HH Lamb, who wrote about it in “Climate, History and the Modern World”:

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October 10, 2023 at 08:15AM

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