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On 10 Mar, 19:51, Richard Dixon wrote:
"Bingo99" wrote
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Incidentally this reading is only 1mb higher that the reading I got in
THAT storm 20 years ago, but the pressure gradient was far less this
time thank goodness

Quite - Sky last night were saying that the storm had pressure as low as
the 1987 storm, to make a big thing of it. There's a big difference
between
a filling 955mb and a rapidly deepening 955mb !

Richard

... hate to wreck a good story, but the October 1987 storm was
*filling* as it crossed the country ... It reached its deepest, around
953 mbar, well south of Cornwall at midnight GMT and cleared the east
coast shortly before 0600 at 959 mbar. The speed of movement and the
tighter pressure gradient, particularly to its south, were responsible
for the much stronger winds, rather than the depth of the depression
or its change in central pressure ...


Hate to wreck a good story, but ... the strongest winds are now thought to
be a consequence of a "sting jet".

:-))

Will
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