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23/6/04

A wild day up here with full blown gales and frequent showers.

Around midday my daughter heard slates being ripped from the roof in powerful
gusts. As it turned out it was a couple of half edge slates. North Hessary Tor
(about 200m higher) was recoding 270/40 knots gust 61 knots and that sort of
gust speed would have been brought down easily to our elevation so I estimate we
had gusts in excess of 60 knots today. No other damage apart from 100s of broken
twigs and branches and defoliation.
Lupins have been flattened and a few other shrubs in the herbaceous border look
a bit "worse for wear".

Not much more rain just 39.2 mm read from 1800 yesterday to 1800 today making a
total for the event of 54.0 mm so far.

Wind still howling around and strong gusts into gale force but at least the
storm force gusts have now abated and should continue to do so as the PVA
feature responsible has run away.

Nothing out of the ordinary if it were January but in June ?

Cheers,

Will.
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" A cup is most useful when empty "
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