Weatherlawyer wrote:

Well, yes and no. The wind lashing at 75 mph or so would be the same on
a tropical island or a temperate zone one. The only difference (besides
the temperature) is the debris in the Caribbean is likely to contain
less plastic.

Yes but maybe I could refer you to the original post with the article
mentioning "a hurricane" and not "hurricane force winds". We don't get
hurricanes in the UK. They called it a hurricane to the fact that it
was hurricane force wind gusts being forecast. Which is doubly wrong
seeing as the beaufort scale, if I'm not wrong, refers to sustained
winds and not gusts.

Still, maybe I'm just wittering on seeing as I've got "Blue Peterarii"
- I'm off to make a Stephenson Screen with some left-over washing up
bottles with the kids. Sigh...

No cheers,
Richard