Around 1969/70 I lived in Rawmarsh and was aged around 10. One sunday afternoon the sky went dark grey and there seemed to be a terrific storm. It was later reported that some sort of freak wind/tornado/hurricane (cant remember which term was used) had passed just south of us in Parkgate. The street that a school friend lived on had roofs lifted and it was reported (in the star I think) that dogs and rubbish were whirled along the road.

Obviously this was ages ago, and my mum cant remember it. Did anything similar happen in Sheffield around that date? Or is there anyone else that remembers the Rawmarsh/Parkgate freak wind thing?

I remember some dreadful storms in about 1974.... the wind blew our chimney pot over. and it took part of our roof with it...

the other one, about the same year, was some really bad weather in the summer (ish) when we had some awful thunderstorms. Lightning struck our house, and took the bay window away from the wall, and let the rain in our front room.

The worst hurricane I can remember in Sheffield was one dark night in 1962 (I think February or March). Some prefabs on Skye Edge were blown down and the families had to be speedily rehoused. I seem to recall that The Star published a special edition with photos of the damage. My grandfather woke up to find two greenhouses in his garden - the previous day he didn't have one...

The worst hurricane I can remember in Sheffield was one dark night in 1962 (I think February or March). Some prefabs on Skye Edge were blown down and the families had to be speedily rehoused. I seem to recall that The Star published a special edition with photos of the damage. My grandfather woke up to find two greenhouses in his garden - the previous day he didn't have one...

it was february 62 , wadsleyite, there's a thread somewhere on here, with lots of tales about the fun and games that were had during the gale. There are some real horror stories, but fascinating reading.

The worst hurricane I can remember in Sheffield was one dark night in 1962 (I think February or March). Some prefabs on Skye Edge were blown down and the families had to be speedily rehoused. I seem to recall that The Star published a special edition with photos of the damage. My grandfather woke up to find two greenhouses in his garden - the previous day he didn't have one...

I was born in feb 1962 my mom aways said I was born in the middle of the storm (story of my life)

The worst hurricane I can remember in Sheffield was one dark night in 1962 (I think February or March). Some prefabs on Skye Edge were blown down and the families had to be speedily rehoused. I seem to recall that The Star published a special edition with photos of the damage. My grandfather woke up to find two greenhouses in his garden - the previous day he didn't have one...

It was the night of 16 - 17 February 1962. Then the big freeze followed.

I remember 1962. It blew our chimney pot off and the entire front room (as we called it then) was a quarter of inch deep in soot. The next door neighbour came in for a look and her first two words were a very dramatic "Jesus Christ!". This quite peturbed me as an eight year old because she was a devout Jehovah's Witness. Still I got the day off school.

i remeber playing rugby for Hartleybrook against waltheof on thier pitch near the manor, the night after the gales. We had to abandon the game because of the slates on the pitch!!!!!!!!!!!

Jimmy South, Harry Fish, Mick Bullivant, Kenny Grayson, Dennis Topham, Sam Smith, Dave Simmonite, Mick Greenwood, Alan Ellis, Mick Lee, and the others we won the Price cup that season where r u now.????????????????

I could be wrong(1st time this yr)but ithink hurricane's only at sea

I was a milkman in 1962 remember most of the shop windows on the moor blown out clothes and stuff all over the place.People used to leave milk tokens bought from the coop for payment of milk.needless to all emty bottles had blown away.I think a few people was killed aroun walkley and crooks.And a few days later the big freez.

Yes 1962.I was on mornings that day & as I was getting washed in the kitchen(we had no bathroom)the chimney pot came through the kitchen roof.:shocked: Also a person in the Wicker was almost decapitated by a slate.Terrible.

I could be wrong(1st time this yr)but ithink hurricane's only at sea

Hurricanes always begin at sea (usually over tropical or sub-tropical seas where warm air is rising) but a hurricane can come ashore and affect land. Hurricanes are usually given names, such as "Katrina" that devastated New Orleans in 2005. In the West Pacific and Indian oceans, such a high wind is called a typhoon. Although different standards are used, according to the Beaufort scale a hurricane is a Force 12 wind with a speed greater than 73 mph. For specifications of land and sea winds of all speeds, see http://www.zetnet.co.uk/sigs/weather/Met_Codes/beaufort.htm

The worst hurricane I can remember in Sheffield was one dark night in 1962 (I think February or March). Some prefabs on Skye Edge were blown down and the families had to be speedily rehoused. I seem to recall that The Star published a special edition with photos of the damage. My grandfather woke up to find two greenhouses in his garden - the previous day he didn't have one...

Yes i remember that one,i was coming home after working on night shift.When i arrived home i couldn't get down the path to the front door, it was like fighting my way though a wind tunnel,so i stood in the front garden and waited for the wind to drop a little and then managed to get in.About 30 seconds after getting in the living room i heard a thud,some roof tiles had just dropped on the spot in the garden where i had been standing.

Hurricanes I believe always spin anti clock wise,, or is it clock wise,anyway they always spin the same direction.
However to keep this thread from going down the 1962 road the 1969 " hurricane " was just an 80 mph wind that happens every few years, nothing special.

Due to the effect of the earth's rotation, hurricanes circulate anticlockwise in the northern hemisphere and clockwise in the southern hemisphere (where they are more usually called cyclones). By most standards, an 80 mph wind would be classed as a hurricane.

I was living in Havant, Hampshire when the 1987 "hurricane" hit us.

According to meteorologists at the time, a hurricane was sustained winds of over 100mph.