On Jan 3, 1:51*pm, Dave Cornwell wrote:

Well there was certainly a vicious line squall passed through here,
probably one of the worst of its type for some time.
Good luck with the clear up Alex. The scene sounds reminiscent of our
street in a certain October 1987. Really scary stuff.
Still on the bright side you have managed to dominate our Southern bias
News 24.;-)
Dave

You can see how narrow the swath of 80+ mph winds were on the
WeatherOnline site: http://tinyurl.com/7svyotx

Classic for a Shapiro-Keyser storm: tight, narrow intense wind
"footprint". I'm sure that the funnelling helped as you say Alex.
David Smart (Waghorn) I believe is currently trying to ascertain
whether it's a sting jet - you can probably only really do this via
trajectory analysis back from the wind maximum should that appear in
the wind model. If anything, should the sting jet have occurred the
"common or garden" wind maximum from the cold conveyor belt probably
happened over the North Sea.

The NAE certainly didn't seem to be getting right up to the 90+ inland
wind speeds on this one but had strongest winds over the North Sea, so
I do wonder whether an unresolved (by the model) sting jet is the
cause - at least from the Malin Head 105 mph to the Glasgow 92 mph on
the above map.

Richard