WORLD WEATHER NEWS - DECEMBER 1992

This is a monthly round-up of some of the more outstanding weather eve nts the month, three preceding the cover month. If any of you, our rea ders, has first hand experience of any of the events mentioned below o r its like (and survived!), I am sure all the other readers would be i nterested in the background to the event, how it was forecast and the local population warned. These notes are based on information provided by the International Forecast Unit in the Central Forecasting Office of the Meteorological Office, Bracknell and press reports. Naturally t hey are heavily biased towards areas with a good cover of reliable sur face observations. Places followed by bracketed numbers or letters in the text are identified on the accompanying map. Spellings are those u sed in The Times Atlas.