1. Exploring TEMPEST Lesson one

2. What is an extreme weather event?
What is TEMPEST?
TEMPEST is a database for UK extreme weather events over the past 500 years
What is a
data base?
What is an extreme weather event?

3. Christmas Day Snow?
Search is for all years. Selected term is ‘Snowstorm / Blizzards’.
Date is 25th December
Results appear for

4. Christmas Day 1927 Date: 25th December 1927 - January 1928
Places: UK Wide, Orlingbury
Type of Event: Heavy rain followed by blizzard with heavy snow, drifting
Clicking on one marker will reveal information about the weather event there
What does this information tell you?
What kind of impacts might you expect?
What questions would you ask?

5. Christmas Day 1927 Date: 25th December 1927 - January 1928
Places: UK Wide, Orlingbury
Type of Event: Heavy rain followed by blizzard with heavy snow, drifting.
Impacts: Inconvenience or disruption to everyday activities including travel, Road-traffic accidents.
“Throughout the week huge snowdrifts blocked roads all over the country, in many cases villages cut off & food conveyed by aeroplane in many cases”

6. Christmas Day 1927 Date: 25th December 1927 - January 1928
Places: UK Wide, Orlingbury
Type of Event: Heavy rain followed by blizzard with heavy snow, drifting.
Were any other places in the UK having extreme weather on Christmas Day 1927?
How can we find out?
Who was affected particularly badly by Christmas Day weather in the UK in 1927?

7. Christmas Day 1927
SEARCH is for 25th December 1927 only. All weather events.
Look at the information on each marker. What does this tell you about the weather on 25th December 1927? What doesn’t it tell you?

8. Christmas Day 1927 Bardney, Lincs
Dates: 1st November st December 1927
“... during November and December conditions were deplorable, snow, frost, gales and floods being experienced”
Summary of impact
Harvesting operations difficult. Factory closed down.
Impact quotes
“... so bad did the weather interrupt harvesting operations that the Factory was closed down, and outstanding beet trapped by the frost had to be harvested after Christmas”
Impact
Inconvenience or disruption to everyday activities including travel

9. December 1927
December 1927

10. Winter

11. Mapping weather stories from the past
Which map would you use to illustrate a story about the weather on 25th December 1927 at Orlingbury?
Why?
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12. Useful Links Digimap for Schools www.digimapforschools.edina.ac.uk
Met Office
Met Office Historical Fact Sheets