Thread: West Cornwall gales - bit exciting.
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Old May 14th 13, 05:17 PM posted to uk.sci.weather
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Default West Cornwall gales - bit exciting.
On 14/05/2013 17:13, Graham Easterling wrote:
The forecast SW gales for the 9th didn't materialise, in fact I couldn't find anywhere that topped gale force that day, though I suspect some westernmost cliff tops might have scraped a F8. In Penzance even the maximum gust was only 38mph, much as the 36mph recorded on 11th. Culdrose just topped 50mph

Different story evolving today.

Scilly
13:00 40mph S
15:20 12mph NW
16:20 44mph NW
and those are mean speeds, so we really are talking a gale for a change.

MetO is currently predicting gusts of 81mph fot St. Ives @ 19:00 http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/...t_weather.html , hopefully that's a slight overestimate, but worth watching.

Only once was I in St Ives when there was a real gale - it was pretty
bracing!
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Paul Hyett
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