"John Hall" wrote in message
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... you mean Q/A 2B.1 ... which has been there since May 1997 ;-(

Oops! Sorry, Martin. I wasn't online when I was writing that, so
couldn't check, and didn't recall such a question.
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.... no, it was one I anticipated when the whole thing started. We had
the problem in 1987 of course because as others have pointed out, Force
12 is "Hurricane Force" in the Beaufort list - so we are always on a
hiding to nothing with that one. The press love it - keeps them going
(or rather coming back on the phone) for ages when they look it up -
*says* Hurricane Force, but some stupid met man says it isn't a
hurricane. Try explaining about vertical shear and warm cores to the
average "sub" on the 'Sun ;-)

Martin.