I had thought the 1894 storm was one of the most damaging to have hit Britain.
I wrote about it this week but a colleague, Mike Fallone, asked me to look a year further back to read about a more severe storm.
He has researched the subject well because his wife’s great grandfather was the only survivor of a shipwreck in the River Tay caused by the wind.
Ralph Strachan (35) of Crichton Street, Dundee, reached the Fife coast semi-conscious and sheltered in a farmhouse.
The other four crew members of the sand boat, Union, perished.
The Courier of November 20, 1893, devoted a full page to the calamity that befell the UK the previous Friday night and Saturday morning.
It was described as a hurricane and judging by the damage, the description was not hyperbole.
In Dundee, night watchman David Raitt was killed when his shelter roof caved in.
A side of Baxter Park Free Church collapsed and the roof of the athletics ground at Carolina Port was ripped off.
Telegraph communication between Dundee and the outlying towns was severed, hundreds of trees were uprooted at Castle Huntly estate and tenement gable ends collapsed in Dundee including one at 33 Hill Street.
But this was not just an Angus storm. The entire British Isles were hammered by this 19th century weather bomb.
The Dundee steamer, Rose, was wrecked on rocks near Flamborough but the crew survived.
However, 23 sailors died when the steamer Hampshire ran ashore off Penzance, nine died when a Norwegian schooner was driven onto rocks at Filey and eight Scots died when their fishing boat sank near Scarborough.
So far this morning, wind gusts of 70mph have been recorded on the Tay and Forth road bridges. In general, the bridge closes when wind hits 80mph so we could be in for a bit traffic disruption if it picks up further.