Portal:Weather/On this day list/December 27
December 27[edit]
1836: The deadliest avalanche ever to strike the United Kingdom killed eight people in Lewes, Sussex, England.
2002: Cyclone Zoe reached peak intensity with a minimum central pressure of 890 millibars (26.28 inHg), the strongest tropical cyclone on record in the Southern Hemisphere at the time (surpassed by Cyclone Winston in 2016).