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Adam Lea writes:
Just seen a weather warning on the Met Office web site for severe gales and
heavy rain with gusts to 60-70 mph. Seems an unusually strong storm for
August - more like what you would expect during Autumn/Winter (yes I am
aware of the Fastnet storm). It will be interesting to see if it verifies.

In quite a few years the weather seems to take on a rather autumnal air
around the middle of August, the Fastnet storm being one of the more
extreme examples..
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