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Old October 7th 09, 09:05 AM posted to uk.sci.weather
Graham Easterling[_2_] Graham Easterling[_2_] is offline
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Default Tropical storm west of Spain/Portugal?

On 6 Oct, 21:37, Graham Easterling wrote:
On 6 Oct, 20:08, "Martin Rowley"

wrote:
... amazing wee beastie! At 1800Z, according to XC-Weather, the
Marathon oil platform (north Fastnet / west Celtic Sea) is reporting a
full gale ... 36 knots, G41 from the NE.


Martin.


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Martin Rowley
West Moors, East Dorset (UK): 17m (56ft) amsl
Lat: 50.82N * Long: 01.88W
NGR: SU 082 023


It's been a very windy evening on the tip of Cornwall. Mean speed at
Sevenstones 34knots at 18:00, *33 knots at 20:00. (SSW) . *Force 7 on
Scilly, Force 6 in west Cornwall, but very gusty.

Graham
Penzance


Overland gusts in excess of 50mph locally as 'Grace' passed by to the
north E.g. http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/...er_graphs.html

Stronger over the sea, unfortunately Land's End Weather, wasn't
working.

Graham
Penzance