The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gale_of_January_1976" id="mw9Q" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Gale of January 1976">Gale of January 1976</a> begins, resulting in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coastal_flooding" id="mw9g" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Coastal flooding">coastal flooding</a> around the southern <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Sea" id="mw9w" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="North Sea">North Sea</a> coasts, affecting countries from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Ireland" id="mw-A" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Republic of Ireland">Ireland</a> to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_Federal_Republic_of_Yugoslavia" id="mw-Q" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia">Yugoslavia</a> and causing at least 82 deaths and US$1.3 billion in damage.<sup about="#mwt148" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-28"}}' id="cite_ref-28" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./January_2#cite_note-28" id="mw-g" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 28;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mw-w">[28]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-28"><cite about="#mwt145" class="citation journal cs1" id="CITEREFShawHopkinsCaton1976">Shaw, M. S.; Hopkins, J. S.; Caton, P. G. F. (June 1976). "The Gales of 2 January 1976". <i id="mwB74">Weather</i>. <b id="mwB78">31</b> (6): 172–183. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./Bibcode_(identifier)" id="mwB8A" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Bibcode (identifier)">Bibcode</a>:<a class="external text" href="https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1976Wthr...31..172S" id="mwB8E" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">1976Wthr...31..172S</a>. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./Doi_(identifier)" id="mwB8I" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1002%2Fj.1477-8696.1976.tb04429.x" id="mwB8M" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">10.1002/j.1477-8696.1976.tb04429.x</a>.</cite><span about="#mwt145" class="Z3988" id="mwB8Q" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=Weather&amp;rft.atitle=The+Gales+of+2+January+1976&amp;rft.volume=31&amp;rft.issue=6&amp;rft.pages=172-183&amp;rft.date=1976-06&amp;rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1002%2Fj.1477-8696.1976.tb04429.x&amp;rft_id=info%3Abibcode%2F1976Wthr...31..172S&amp;rft.aulast=Shaw&amp;rft.aufirst=M.+S.&amp;rft.au=Hopkins%2C+J.+S.&amp;rft.au=Caton%2C+P.+G.+F.&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJanuary+2"></span></span>