"Mike Tullett" wrote in message
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On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 20:14:15 -0000, Col wrote in


Is this the only bit of the UK that seems to have missed the maelstrom?

What bit?

After a bit of "googling" I'll suggest Sunderland:-) And that area was
largely unaffected by the winds further south.

But that area was always going to be marginal as to whether very
strong winds were going to happen.

What did surprise me was that NW England appears to have had
most of the strongest winds - 91mph at Winter Hill, obviously
high elevation but the 76mph at Manchesater Airport is very notable.
I expected the strongest winds today to be somewhere in the Midlands.

Conditions in Bolton today can truely be described as savage.
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Col

Bolton, Lancashire
160m asl