A bracing day on the top of Great Dun Fell. At 1200 the wind was 73 knots
gusting to 99 knots with the temperature on 3.9 deg.

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Norman Lynagh
Tideswell, Derbyshire
303m a.s.l.
http://peakdistrictweather.org

On Sunday, 29 November 2015 12:33:10 UTC, Norman wrote:
A bracing day on the top of Great Dun Fell. At 1200 the wind was 73 knots
gusting to 99 knots with the temperature on 3.9 deg.

--
Norman Lynagh
Tideswell, Derbyshire
303m a.s.l.
http://peakdistrictweather.org

Hi, Norman,
I was just about to post that!
20 miles east and 2,000ft lower, current Copley a tad more pleasant, but still very unpleasant and a gale 10min 12:40Z WSW 38G50KT with driving rain.
Ken
Copley
Habitable part of Teesdale

Ken Cook wrote:

On Sunday, 29 November 2015 12:33:10 UTC, Norman wrote:
A bracing day on the top of Great Dun Fell. At 1200 the wind was 73 knots
gusting to 99 knots with the temperature on 3.9 deg.

--
Norman Lynagh
Tideswell, Derbyshire
303m a.s.l.
http://peakdistrictweather.org

Hi, Norman,
I was just about to post that!
20 miles east and 2,000ft lower, current Copley a tad more pleasant, but
still very unpleasant and a gale 10min 12:40Z WSW 38G50KT with driving rain.
Ken Copley
Habitable part of Teesdale


Nothing like that in Tideswell. Hunkered down in our N/S valley we've had
nothing more than Force 6 with gusts to 35 knots but I can hear the wind
roaring through the trees on the crest of the ridge about 250 yards to the west
and about 100 feet higher up.

--
Norman Lynagh
Tideswell, Derbyshire
303m a.s.l.
http://peakdistrictweather.org

Ken Cook wrote:

On Sunday, 29 November 2015 12:33:10 UTC, Norman wrote:
A bracing day on the top of Great Dun Fell. At 1200 the wind was 73 knots
gusting to 99 knots with the temperature on 3.9 deg.

--
Norman Lynagh
Tideswell, Derbyshire
303m a.s.l.
http://peakdistrictweather.org

Hi, Norman,
I was just about to post that!
20 miles east and 2,000ft lower, current Copley a tad more pleasant, but
still very unpleasant and a gale 10min 12:40Z WSW 38G50KT with driving rain.
Ken Copley
Habitable part of Teesdale


Perhaps more notable is the 51 knots gusting 81 knots at Capel Curig at 1300z.

--
Norman Lynagh
Tideswell, Derbyshire
303m a.s.l.
http://peakdistrictweather.org

On Sunday, 29 November 2015 14:00:42 UTC, Norman wrote:
Ken Cook wrote:

On Sunday, 29 November 2015 12:33:10 UTC, Norman wrote:
A bracing day on the top of Great Dun Fell. At 1200 the wind was 73 knots
gusting to 99 knots with the temperature on 3.9 deg.

--
Norman Lynagh
Tideswell, Derbyshire
303m a.s.l.
http://peakdistrictweather.org

Hi, Norman,
I was just about to post that!
20 miles east and 2,000ft lower, current Copley a tad more pleasant, but
still very unpleasant and a gale 10min 12:40Z WSW 38G50KT with driving rain.
Ken Copley
Habitable part of Teesdale


Nothing like that in Tideswell. Hunkered down in our N/S valley we've had
nothing more than Force 6 with gusts to 35 knots but I can hear the wind
roaring through the trees on the crest of the ridge about 250 yards to the west
and about 100 feet higher up.

--
Norman Lynagh
Tideswell, Derbyshire
303m a.s.l.
http://peakdistrictweather.org

I wonder just how much windier it would be on Cross Fell? Just 148 feet (2930 feet compared with 2782 feet) in it I know. I notice that it was meaning 76 gusting 99 kts from 270° at 1300 UTC, I bet it's whistling round Greg's hut a bit at the moment.

On Sunday, 29 November 2015 14:20:04 UTC, xmetman wrote:
I wonder just how much windier it would be on Cross Fell? Just 148 feet (2930 feet compared with 2782 feet) in it I know. I notice that it was meaning 76 gusting 99 kts from 270° at 1300 UTC, I bet it's whistling round Greg's hut a bit at the moment.

I'm impressed, you know Greg's Hut?

http://www.gregshut.org.uk/

Best we got was W 40G50KT btw

Ken

Norman wrote:

Ken Cook wrote:

On Sunday, 29 November 2015 12:33:10 UTC, Norman wrote:
A bracing day on the top of Great Dun Fell. At 1200 the wind was 73 knots
gusting to 99 knots with the temperature on 3.9 deg.

--
Norman Lynagh
Tideswell, Derbyshire
303m a.s.l.
http://peakdistrictweather.org

Hi, Norman,
I was just about to post that!
20 miles east and 2,000ft lower, current Copley a tad more pleasant, but
still very unpleasant and a gale 10min 12:40Z WSW 38G50KT with driving rain.
Ken Copley
Habitable part of Teesdale


Perhaps more notable is the 51 knots gusting 81 knots at Capel Curig at 1300z.

Great Dun Fell had a gust of 102 knots in the hour ending at 1400z.

--
Norman Lynagh
Tideswell, Derbyshire
303m a.s.l.
http://peakdistrictweather.org

On Sunday, 29 November 2015 14:31:14 UTC, Ken Cook wrote:
On Sunday, 29 November 2015 14:20:04 UTC, xmetman wrote:
I wonder just how much windier it would be on Cross Fell? Just 148 feet (2930 feet compared with 2782 feet) in it I know. I notice that it was meaning 76 gusting 99 kts from 270° at 1300 UTC, I bet it's whistling round Greg's hut a bit at the moment.

I'm impressed, you know Greg's Hut?

http://www.gregshut.org.uk/

Best we got was W 40G50KT btw

Ken

Hi Ken

I think I said in a recent post when my wife and I got married we had no real honeymoon but I came up with this crazy idea of doing the Pennine way the next summer (1979), so we walked it N to S and came across this old Lead miners bothy on a July evening on Cross Fell (it must have been marked on the map or mentioned by Wainwright in his book) in hill cloud, drizzle and blowing a gale, there was no way we could walk on or pitch a tent. looking back it was totally crazy.

There was lamp on in the hut that we could faintly see in the window, there were a number of people in there gathered around the fire - it was like a
scene from a Dickensian novel - my wife got the last hammock, and I stayed up propped against the fireplace for what was seemed the longest night of my life. We burnt all the wood and in the end burnt the saw-horse to keep warm. If my memory serves me right I'm sure there was a stream or spring running inside that hut! We caught something from the water that night, and limped down the next day to Appleby from Great Dun Fell, I spent the whole journey back to Sheffield on that train in the toilet.

I suppose that night Greg's hut (as I recently found its name was from a Google search) saved our bacon, I suppose we could have back tracked, but certainly not walked on.

I notice now that it's very dangerous in the vicinity of Greg's hut to do that in poor visibility or the dark:

http://www.mountainbothies.org.uk/bo...sp?bothy_id=86

You may already know about this panorama site but if you are interested in hills and mountains it's a great resource:

http://www.viewfinderpanoramas.org/p.../ENG/CROSS.GIF

I don't know if you can see Cross Fell from your observing site, but it's great if you do observations and need vis points!

I bought quite a number when I was doing my Munros when I lived in Scotland..
They don't seem to do one for Haytor, but you can request one, here's the link for High Willhays

http://www.viewfinderpanoramas.org/p...G/DARTMOOR.GIF

Bruce.

PS I notice that the winds veered and dropped a bit and the temperatures down to 0.4°C this hour.

"Norman" wrote in message
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Ken Cook wrote:

On Sunday, 29 November 2015 12:33:10 UTC, Norman wrote:
A bracing day on the top of Great Dun Fell. At 1200 the wind was 73
knots
gusting to 99 knots with the temperature on 3.9 deg.

--
Norman Lynagh
Tideswell, Derbyshire
303m a.s.l.
http://peakdistrictweather.org

Hi, Norman,
I was just about to post that!
20 miles east and 2,000ft lower, current Copley a tad more pleasant, but
still very unpleasant and a gale 10min 12:40Z WSW 38G50KT with driving
rain.
Ken Copley
Habitable part of Teesdale


Nothing like that in Tideswell. Hunkered down in our N/S valley we've had
nothing more than Force 6 with gusts to 35 knots but I can hear the wind
roaring through the trees on the crest of the ridge about 250 yards to the
west
and about 100 feet higher up.


Likewise sheltered here at home with a F4-F5 and strong gusts. But on my 11
mile walk this morning above 450 metres it was horrendous, lashing rain and
a near gale, could barely stand on Hay Tor summit where locally it was
touching severe gale 9. But the spot is very exposed.

Will
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http://www.lyneside.demon.co.uk/Hayt...antage_Pro.htm
Will Hand (Haytor, Devon, 1017 feet asl)
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