"Waghorn" wrote in message
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An excellent example of how the upper trough currently extending
SE has
engaged the previously weak front
-and v graphic in WV Joe
http://www.sat.dundee.ac.uk/pdus/BW/...31200BW1_g.jpg
and the developing low for tomorrow,due to 'bomb' to ~970hpa.

Wot's the record for May?

It's in danger ... 968.0mbar on 8 May 1943 at Sealand, near
Chester.

See http://www.wetterzentrale.de/topkarten/fsslpeur.html

Eight days later it was 1042.2mbar at Dublin, which stands as the
highest MSL pressure for May. The depression of the 7th-8th
was responsible for mean hourly 56kn at Bell Rock and gusts
of 72kn at Bell Rock, 66kn at Holyhead, and even 63kn at
Lympne inland in Kent ... and up to 75mm rain in E.Scot, most
of which fell as snow. A 2m drift covered the Braemar-Perth
road at Cluny Bridge. Also 90mm of rain in 24h (non rainfall
day) at Ashburton in Devon.

Philip Eden, with thanks to the relevant MWR and BR.