"Norman Lynagh"
position. I wonder if there is any ground truth for the 967 mb centre much
further south or if it is a figment of the model's imagination.

Apologies for responding to my own post but I've been looking a bit more
closely at this. Data buoy 62105 at 55.4N 12.5W reported a pressure of
991.8 mb at 1200z. This was consistent with hourly pressures reported in
the hours before and after 1200z so it looks to be OK. The Met Office
1200z analysis shows a pressure of something like 972 mb at that location
i.e about 20 mb lower than was actually reported. It certainly looks to be
a very dodgy analysis.

Norman.
the K5 buoy bottomed out at 971 hPa
11111400 ENE 4.1- 6.0 10-- 971.0 -3.6 11.1 11.1 9.2---

so that's in the ball park for the NW low centre.Odd there's a gap in the
buoys up the west coast there,

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regards,
David

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