Very gusty winds with heavy rain and thunder moving in from the SW over
the last half hour.

Still raining heavy here but wind now dropped light.
Looks like the wind increase was a downdraft ahead of the trough line.
It was difficult to be exact because I was just getting up after a night
shift and the thunder woke me up first but it shows quite nicely on the
Hilbre weather station wind data.
http://cobs.pol.ac.uk/cobs/met/hilbre/

Alan

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Wirral,Merseyside. 53.1 N 3.0 W 40m amsl
http://www.wirralcam.com/frame.htm