Martin Rowley wrote:

It's important (the distinction between SSW & SW or WSW), because as
has been pointed out through the summer/early autumn, SSTs are
above-average (roughly +0.5 to +1.0C 71-00) looking back towards
Madeira, rather than +0.5 or less back to the Azores. Oceanic heat
storage at work!

Martin.



Having watched this ex-TS on radar & satpic most of the day it's still
there on the Meteox 21z IR satpic, it's the only ex TS the OP has ever
seen clobbering Britain. It shows in spectacular fashion on one of BB's
sat pics too:

It seemed to just eat the front whilst travelling on its merry way to
the UK.. it seemed the front lost its identity and not the TS.

http://www.woksat.info/etcrj06m/rj06-msg-1800-eu.html

SW Wales just has to be getting a lot of rain..

Les

On Oct 6, 10:09*pm, Les Crossan
wrote:
Martin Rowley wrote:
It's important (the distinction between SSW & SW or WSW), because as
has been pointed out through the summer/early autumn, SSTs are
above-average (roughly +0.5 to +1.0C 71-00) looking back towards
Madeira, rather than +0.5 or less back to the Azores. Oceanic heat
storage at work!

Martin.

Having watched this ex-TS on radar & satpic most of the day it's still
there on the Meteox 21z IR satpic, it's the only ex TS the OP has ever
seen clobbering Britain. It shows in spectacular fashion on one of BB's
sat pics too:

It seemed to just eat the front whilst travelling on its merry way to
the UK.. it seemed the front lost its identity and not the TS.

http://www.woksat.info/etcrj06m/rj06-msg-1800-eu.html

SW Wales just has to be getting a lot of rain..

Les

Weather radar shows a lot of rain over S. Wales.

That really is a little gem. It has to be worth at least one research
paper!

On 6 Oct, 21:37, Graham Easterling wrote:
On 6 Oct, 20:08, "Martin Rowley"

wrote:
... amazing wee beastie! At 1800Z, according to XC-Weather, the
Marathon oil platform (north Fastnet / west Celtic Sea) is reporting a
full gale ... 36 knots, G41 from the NE.

Martin.

--
Martin Rowley
West Moors, East Dorset (UK): 17m (56ft) amsl
Lat: 50.82N * Long: 01.88W
NGR: SU 082 023

It's been a very windy evening on the tip of Cornwall. Mean speed at
Sevenstones 34knots at 18:00, *33 knots at 20:00. (SSW) . *Force 7 on
Scilly, Force 6 in west Cornwall, but very gusty.

Graham
Penzance

Overland gusts in excess of 50mph locally as 'Grace' passed by to the
north E.g. http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/...er_graphs.html

Stronger over the sea, unfortunately Land's End Weather, wasn't
working.

Graham
Penzance

"Graham Easterling" wrote ...

overland gusts in excess of 50mph locally as 'Grace' passed by to
the
north E.g.
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/...er_graphs.html

Stronger over the sea, unfortunately Land's End Weather, wasn't
working.

Graham
Penzance

.... this list won't be exhaustive, as I don't have access to the full
set of SYNOPs, but these are what I've found (so far) .... time shown
is the hour *ending* that in which the gust was observed:-

707 Chivenor 38 kn 00Z
710 Liscombe 38 kn 00Z
808 Camborne 42 kn 21Z 48 mph
809 Culdrose 40 kn 22Z
823 Cardinham 38 kn 23Z
827 Plymouth/M 44 kn 00Z 51 mph
.... 857 Portland 45 kn 02Z 52 mph ... highest found
862 Hurn 38 kn 02Z
866 St. Catherine's Pt 38 kn 03Z
874 Solent MRSC 39 kn 02 & 03Z

I've suppressed those that are below 35kn

Martin.

--
Martin Rowley
West Moors, East Dorset (UK): 17m (56ft) amsl
Lat: 50.82N Long: 01.88W
NGR: SU 082 023

"Martin Rowley" wrote in message
.. .
"Graham Easterling" wrote ...

overland gusts in excess of 50mph locally as 'Grace' passed by to the
north E.g.
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/...er_graphs.html

Stronger over the sea, unfortunately Land's End Weather, wasn't
working.

Graham
Penzance

... this list won't be exhaustive, as I don't have access to the full set
of SYNOPs, but these are what I've found (so far) .... time shown is the
hour *ending* that in which the gust was observed:-

707 Chivenor 38 kn 00Z
710 Liscombe 38 kn 00Z
808 Camborne 42 kn 21Z 48 mph
809 Culdrose 40 kn 22Z
823 Cardinham 38 kn 23Z
827 Plymouth/M 44 kn 00Z 51 mph
... 857 Portland 45 kn 02Z 52 mph ... highest found
862 Hurn 38 kn 02Z
866 St. Catherine's Pt 38 kn 03Z
874 Solent MRSC 39 kn 02 & 03Z

I've suppressed those that are below 35kn

Martin.

--
Martin Rowley
West Moors, East Dorset (UK): 17m (56ft) amsl
Lat: 50.82N Long: 01.88W
NGR: SU 082 023


I saw a recorded gust of 57kt at The Needles, Isle of Wight
(can't recall the hour) but then the anemometer there is very,
very, very exposed atop a 300ft cliff!

Nigel