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named storm - have you then suffered damage from a storm?
This is precisely what has occurred to a well-known holiday
business, which is claiming some £60 million worth of repairs
from their insurers for damage from flooding (no high winds
were involved). The insurers are only offering £25 million in
reparation, this being their maximum payout for damages
from a storm, which they claim was the cause of the damage.
But the storm was not named so was it a storm or not? The
case continues…

[1] The Times Newspaper, accessed 01/05/2004
[2] The Royal Meteorological Society (2022), ‘Weather A-Z,
London, The Natural History Museum, p. 104.
For local weather details and forecasts go to: https://
offweather.hopto.org
Richard Seaton
rkseaton@outlook.com

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