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Severe, hurricane-like storms have brought damaging winds and
flooding to much of Western Europe. Hans Wendt alerted me in
email on the 18th, suggesting that the REG data might react.
"It involves millions of people, official alerts,
suspensions of RR and air travel ... perhaps beginning with
the storms on the Irish coast ... It's pretty upsetting
stuff with its reports of many fatalities from the several
Orkane of Windstaerke 11 - 12 (Hurricanes with winds of
levels 11 to 12).
Disconcertingly, these storms have not been remarked in the
insular US news, but it has been a major story
internationally, notably in the BBC
News, which reports that there have been upwards of 30
deaths, and much destruction. The winds in various places have
reached 130 miles per hour as the storms have progressed
across the British Isles, Holland, France, Germany, Poland
and on into Eastern Europe.
The full day of January 18, UTC was taken as a
representative slice of the time when the storms were hammering Western
Europe. The Chisquare is 86945.978, on 86400 df, for p =
0.095 and a corresponding Z = 1.312.
The graph shows a relatively steady trend during the 24 hour
period.
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