Weather memories: the events of 11–12 November 1977

Abstract

Space weather and the Titanic disaster ing such precise calculations that allowed him to navigate the Carpathia directly to the lifeboats. Joseph Boxhall died 25 April 1967. As per his wishes, his ashes were scattered over the Titanic's SOS position he calculated on early morning hours of 15 April 1912, 24km off the Titanic's wreck site. While testifying to Wreck Commissioner's Court (1912), Titanic's Second Officer Charles Lightoller said: Of course, we know now the extraordinary combination of circumstances that existed at that time which you would not meet again in one hundred years; that they should all have existed just on that particular night shows that everything was against us. Lightoller might have been just right. It appears that even the Sun was against them.

Weather memories: the events of 11–12 November 1977

“…Up to this point, the month had been relatively benign, dominated by mild southwesterlies with some very high maxima only 2 days before following the northward movement of a warm front on 9 November. A temperature of 17°C was achieved in parts of southern England on all 3 days up to and including 11 November, while on the 10th, 18.2°C was achieved at London Weather Centre, its warmest November day since 1946 (Clark, 1978). 12 November, however, saw much colder northwesterlies sweep in behind the cold front, and winds were still very strong with widespread gusts of 60kt.…”