On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 02:31:00 -0700 (PDT), Graham Easterling
wrote:

The MEAN wind speed at Scilly jumped from 45mph at 08:00 to 61mph at
08:50 (Force 10)

I notice that there was a gust of 88mph reported by a private AWS at
St Martins in the early hours. See live data at:

http://www.weatherlink.com/user/tape...mary&headers=1

John Dann
www.weatherstations.co.uk