A severe storm that hit 120 years ago produced some of the strongest winds ever recorded in the UK, a study has found.<\/p>\n

Many weather records from before 1950 are still stored in archives, and are slowly being studied and evdEn EVE NaKLiyAt<\/a> digitised to produce a more accurate history of Britain’s weather.<\/p>\n

During this process, researchers from the University of Reading found that ‘Storm Ulysses’ is amongst the top four most powerful ever to have struck England<\/a> and Wales.<\/p>\n

The cyclone passed across eastern Ireland evdEn eVe NAkliyAt<\/a> and northern England between February 26 and 27 in 1903, causing multiple deaths and damaging infrastructure and ships.<\/p>\n

It got its name from the James Joyce novel which is set in the year after the storm, and describes its damage to thousands of trees in Dublin, Ireland.<\/p>\n