On May 22, 2:52*pm, haaark wrote:
On May 22, 1:26*pm, "Col" wrote:





"Martin Rowley" wrote in message

...

... not exactly exercising this newsgroup atm, but for those of you in
roughly the 'northern half' of the British Isles, a potential *highly
significant* storm for Monday

http://bethyngalw.nowster.me.uk/charts/UKCpf036.png
[accessed 22/0835Z]

I've had a very quick look at the deterministic output from GFS, MetO &
also seen some ENS from EC, and I wonder if we're looking at an event that
is at least a 'one-in-50' year for coastal north of Ireland,
southern/central Scotland & border region Scotland/England (and adjacent
sea areas of course)?

I am reminded by this of a storm that affected the very far north
of Scotland in June, 5-10 years ago. Winds reached 100 mph.
Does anybody know the exact date of this or any more details?
--
Col

Bolton, Lancashire
160m asl

Call me Mr. Jaded, but in my experience most months of the year a
forecaster will come on the Beeb and say that we are about to get
exceptionally strong winds for the time of year. These events are not
that exceptional in the height of summer, never mind May. If tomorrow
turns out to be a 1 in 50 year event (even just for May), we're not
going to see some trees blown about a bit, we're going to have some
deaths.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

It is rather exceptional to have such a warming in a period of UK
blocking, however. *))

... not exactly exercising this newsgroup atm, but for those
of you
in
roughly the 'northern half' of the British Isles, a potential
*highly
significant* storm for Monday

I was somewhat surprised that no-one (as far as I could see)
from Scotland was talking about this.
Martin.

Too busy getting prepared for it, perhaps?

I was on the Isle of Lewis and planning to get the ferry back to
the mainland on Monday or Tuesday. On seeing the amber warnings
and reading the forecast I rebooked on the Sunday sailing
(breaking the Sabbath, tut, tut) and came home last night. If I
have to watch lashing rain and howling gales I can do so more
usefully at home than in a Hebridean guest house.

So far it looks fairly windy here in Fochabers but nothing
unusual. The strongest winds seem to be expected further east
and further west but not here.

Anne

On May 23, 9:35*am, "Anne Burgess"
wrote:
... not exactly exercising this newsgroup atm, but for those
of you
in
roughly the 'northern half' of the British Isles, a potential
*highly
significant* storm for Monday
*I was somewhat surprised that no-one (as far as I could see)
from Scotland was talking about this.
Martin.

Too busy getting prepared for it, perhaps?

I was on the Isle of Lewis and planning to get the ferry back to
the mainland on Monday or Tuesday. On seeing the amber warnings
and reading the forecast I rebooked on the Sunday sailing
(breaking the Sabbath, tut, tut) and came home last night. If I
have to watch lashing rain and howling gales I can do so more
usefully at home than in a Hebridean guest house.

So far it looks fairly windy here in Fochabers but nothing
unusual. The strongest winds seem to be expected further east
and further west but not here.

Anne

I was looking to track this on the MAWS network, looking at the gusts,
but things appear to have changed.

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/.../maws_pic.html

There is still a lot of data, but you used to be able to see gust
speeds and have a nice location map to click around. The MetO address
no longer exists, so I suspect this has disappeared. Can anyone
confirm, or link to the gust data from the MAWS network?

On May 23, 10:08*am, Dawlish wrote:

I was looking to track this on the MAWS network, looking at the gusts,
but things appear to have changed.

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/.../maws_pic.html

There is still a lot of data, but you used to be able to see gust
speeds and have a nice location map to click around. The MetO address
no longer exists, so I suspect this has disappeared. Can anyone
confirm, or link to the gust data from the MAWS network?

Map is at http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/...tions/map.html

Looks like gust data is no longer available.

Freddie.

Some of the strongest gusts this morning, up to 12:00 Z:

Belmullet 83mph

Malin Head 80mph

Ballykelly 72mph

Tiree 70mph

Islay/Port Ellen 71mph

Machrihanish 66mph

Glasgow/Bishopton 64 mph

Prestwick 62mph

Salsburgh 66mph

Tulloch Bridge 62mph

Inverbervie 67mph

Glen Ogle (564m amsl) 79mph

Aonoch Moor (1130m) 110mph

Cairnwell (928m) 89mph

Bealach (773m) 102mph

Cairngorm (1237m) 114mph


Stephen.

On May 23, 11:58*am, Freddie wrote:
On May 23, 10:08*am, Dawlish wrote:

I was looking to track this on the MAWS network, looking at the gusts,
but things appear to have changed.

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/.../maws_pic.html

There is still a lot of data, but you used to be able to see gust
speeds and have a nice location map to click around. The MetO address
no longer exists, so I suspect this has disappeared. Can anyone
confirm, or link to the gust data from the MAWS network?

Map is athttp://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/marine/observations/map.html

Looks like gust data is no longer available.

Freddie.

Thanks Freddie.

On May 23, 1:41*pm, Stephen Davenport wrote:
Some of the strongest gusts this morning, up to 12:00 Z:

Belmullet 83mph

Malin Head 80mph

Ballykelly 72mph

Tiree 70mph

Islay/Port Ellen 71mph

Machrihanish 66mph

Glasgow/Bishopton 64 mph

Prestwick 62mph

Salsburgh 66mph

Tulloch Bridge 62mph

Inverbervie 67mph

Glen Ogle (564m amsl) 79mph

Aonoch Moor (1130m) 110mph

Cairnwell (928m) 89mph

Bealach (773m) 102mph

Cairngorm (1237m) 114mph

Stephen.

Would you link to your source please, Stephen

Correction.

Belmullet 89mph at 08:00 Z.

Stephen.

On May 23, 1:46*pm, Dawlish wrote:
On May 23, 1:41*pm, Stephen Davenport wrote:









Some of the strongest gusts this morning, up to 12:00 Z:

Belmullet 83mph

Malin Head 80mph

Ballykelly 72mph

Tiree 70mph

Islay/Port Ellen 71mph

Machrihanish 66mph

Glasgow/Bishopton 64 mph

Prestwick 62mph

Salsburgh 66mph

Tulloch Bridge 62mph

Inverbervie 67mph

Glen Ogle (564m amsl) 79mph

Aonoch Moor (1130m) 110mph

Cairnwell (928m) 89mph

Bealach (773m) 102mph

Cairngorm (1237m) 114mph

Stephen.

Would you link to your source please, Stephen


I'm afraid I can't: these are from synops viewed through our internal
software, not an internet source.

Stephen.

On Mon, 23 May 2011 05:41:59 -0700 (PDT), Stephen Davenport wrote:

Cairngorm (1237m) 114mph

Great Dun Fell 89 mph @
1200

http://www.weatheronline.co.uk/weath...&WMO=03227&TIM
E=std&CONT=ukuk&R=0&LEVEL=140&REGION=0002&LAND=__& ART=wind&NOREGION=0&
PLZ=&PLZN=_____&SORT=__&TEMP=___&WETTER=__&&TYP=__ &SEITE=0

http://tinyurl.com/3bsy55y

The cold front came through here just before 1200, hefty rain and a
few degrees temp drop that has since recovered. Wind also recovered
froma low of F5 to currently about F7.

--
Cheers Dave.
Nr Garrigill, Cumbria. 421m ASL.