ABSTRACT
Of all the hazards that the climate can throw at us, none equals the power of an angry storm. Despite the fact that there is much greater uncertainty about future changes in wind speed and direction, recent studies have demonstrated that the UK is becoming windier and storm incidents are increasing. This reflects a pattern throughout the world, in which hurricanes and storms are not only increasing in number and intensity but storm seasons are extending into months where storms were previously unrecorded.
