No problems here either Alan. Top gust only 46mph.
Looks like the TAF's were spot on last night and the BBC certainly over done
it for this part of the country - if not for all.
Certainly no 70 or 80mph gusts that I can see of.
I didn't think the SSW direction favoured a funnel effect through the
central lowlands anyway, which is required to see gusts of that nature
here - so I was fairly sceptical.
I wonder if tomorrow afternoon will see a similar over-hyped scenario?
Alex.


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"Alan White" wrote in message
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Blustery showers.

Where was the forecast big blow? We had more wind on Christmas Eve
than we had last night. Helen Young, this morning at 07:58, was
wittering about high winds on the mountains. Was that an attempt at
face saving?

It looks as though the CF was disorganised as it passed through here.
The temperature fell from 10.6°C at 04:00 to 5.6°C at 08:45, the wind
direction changed from SW at 06:15 to NW at 07:15 and the barometer
bottomed at 1000.8mb at 05:45 before rising sharply. The maximum gust
was 47mph, SW, at 06:30.

Currently, temperature 5.8°C, wind gusting to 25mph, NW, rain 8.0mm,
since 04:00, barometer 1006.6mb, rising.

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Alan White
Twenty-eight miles NW of Glasgow.
Overlooking Loch Goil and Loch Long in Argyll, Scotland.
Web cam at http://www.ufcnet.net/~alanlesley1/kabcam.htm