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Old October 7th 09, 11:58 AM posted to uk.sci.weather
Martin Rowley Martin Rowley is offline
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Default Tropical storm west of Spain/Portugal?

"Graham Easterling" wrote ...

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


.... this list won't be exhaustive, as I don't have access to the full
set of SYNOPs, but these are what I've found (so far) .... time shown
is the hour *ending* that in which the gust was observed:-

707 Chivenor 38 kn 00Z
710 Liscombe 38 kn 00Z
808 Camborne 42 kn 21Z 48 mph
809 Culdrose 40 kn 22Z
823 Cardinham 38 kn 23Z
827 Plymouth/M 44 kn 00Z 51 mph
.... 857 Portland 45 kn 02Z 52 mph ... highest found
862 Hurn 38 kn 02Z
866 St. Catherine's Pt 38 kn 03Z
874 Solent MRSC 39 kn 02 & 03Z

I've suppressed those that are below 35kn

Martin.

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