The Great Storm of 1703 was a destructive extratropical cyclone that struck central and southern England on 26 November 1703 . High winds caused 2,000 chimney stacks to collapse in London and damaged the New Forest, which lost 4,000 oaks. Ships were blown hundreds of miles off-course, and over 1,000 seamen died on the Goodwin Sands alone. News bulletins of casualties and damage were sold all over England – a novelty at that time. The Church of England declared that the storm was God’s vengeance for the sins of the nation. Daniel Defoe thought it was a divine punishment for poor performance against Catholic armies in the War of the Spanish Succession.
Contemporary observers recorded barometric readings as low as 973 millibars , but it has been suggested that the storm deepened to 950 millibars over the Midlands.
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