The low was still winding itself up as it passed here, also it passed overhead on it's ENE track, so the really strond winds passed to the south.

Culdrose barely reached gale force, and no more than a F5-6 in Penzance, not much more at Camborne, the strongest wind here just behind the low. In some spots locally were windier around noon yesterday.

My strongest gust was 43mph, though at it's strongest the wind was from my most sheltered direction. I have recorded 531 days with stronger gusts in the last 7970 days, which makes it a 1 in 15 days event, bit of a near miss though

Yesterday's swell was far more notable, peaking at 25' at Sevenstones, with the biggest breaking waves near Land's End around 25' - 30', luckily very small tides.

Graham
Penzance

On 28/10/2013 08:10, Graham Easterling wrote:
The low was still winding itself up as it passed here, also it passed overhead on it's ENE track, so the really strond winds passed to the south.

Culdrose barely reached gale force, and no more than a F5-6 in Penzance, not much more at Camborne, the strongest wind here just behind the low. In some spots locally were windier around noon yesterday.

My strongest gust was 43mph, though at it's strongest the wind was from my most sheltered direction. I have recorded 531 days with stronger gusts in the last 7970 days, which makes it a 1 in 15 days event, bit of a near miss though

Yesterday's swell was far more notable, peaking at 25' at Sevenstones, with the biggest breaking waves near Land's End around 25' - 30', luckily very small tides.

Graham
Penzance

The weather up here in North Yorkshire is slightly unusual wind wise as
it is flat calm F0 with a wind speed of 1mph gusting to at most 2mph.
Insufficient to overcome friction on the anemometer. The only things I
can see moving are the thinnest branches on my pine tree occasionally
and I suspect they are responding to recoil as rain drips off.

It may be the calm before the storm but it is quite eerie. It was
moderately windy most of yesterday so quite a contrast.

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

There is steady rain and an overcast grey sky but that is all.


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Regards,
Martin Brown

On Monday, October 28, 2013 8:58:45 AM UTC, Chris Hogg wrote:
On Mon, 28 Oct 2013 01:10:10 -0700 (PDT), Graham Easterling

wrote:

The low was still winding itself up as it passed here, also it passed overhead on it's ENE track, so the really strond winds passed to the south.

Culdrose barely reached gale force, and no more than a F5-6 in Penzance, not much more at Camborne, the strongest wind here just behind the low. In some spots locally were windier around noon yesterday.

My strongest gust was 43mph, though at it's strongest the wind was from my most sheltered direction. I have recorded 531 days with stronger gusts in the last 7970 days, which makes it a 1 in 15 days event, bit of a near miss though

Yesterday's swell was far more notable, peaking at 25' at Sevenstones, with the biggest breaking waves near Land's End around 25' - 30', luckily very small tides.

Graham
Penzance


Ditto, on the other side of Mounts Bay (Praa Sands). Plenty of rain,
0.93", pressure fell to 981 mbar, but winds averaging around 35-40
mph, with gusts around 50-55 mph, between 10pm last night and 2am this
morning. For us, that's unexceptional. The weekend before was windier,
peaking at 61 mph!

I get the impression that the worst of the wind went through Brittany
and Normandy, then veered NE to hit central southern and SE England
and the Dover Strait.

Chris

Good to hear from someone else local!

Yes, it was windier out at Sevenstones yesterday middday than during the 'storm'.

I should mentioned the rain. 38.0mm in the 24 hours to 09:00. That's the wettest 09:00 - 09:00 period since 21st March and the 24th wettest such period in the last 22 years.

Graham

Graham Easterling wrote:

Good to hear from someone else local!

Me too! I had to drive to Truro yesterday evening to pick up my wife from
the coach station. Heavy rain with lots of standing water on the road
surface not helped by drains and gullies blocked by leaves.
My gauge showed 19.1 millimetres of rain for yesterday.
The depression went through Stithians here at 0200 this morning with lowest
pressure showing as 981.6 millibars.
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MCC