I just been looking at the Davis station gust speeds overnight, the two
highest I have found are West Wittering beach at 74knot and Prawle Point,
Devon at 70knot. There was a 61knot gust on the beach at Hove.

Quite windy here as well but nothing exceptional.

Alan
Chiswell Green, St Albans

In message , Alan
Gardiner writes
I just been looking at the Davis station gust speeds overnight, the two
highest I have found are West Wittering beach at 74knot and Prawle
Point, Devon at 70knot. There was a 61knot gust on the beach at Hove.

Quite windy here as well but nothing exceptional.

According to the BBC, there was a gust of 106 mph at The Needles in the
Isle of Wight, which I make 92 knots. To Carol Kirkwood's credit, she
made a point of saying that this was a very exposed location, and that
maximum gusts inland had been more like 50-60 mph.
--
John Hall
"Honest criticism is hard to take,
particularly from a relative, a friend,
an acquaintance, or a stranger." Franklin P Jones

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In message , Alan
Gardiner writes
I just been looking at the Davis station gust speeds overnight, the two
highest I have found are West Wittering beach at 74knot and Prawle
Point, Devon at 70knot. There was a 61knot gust on the beach at Hove.

Quite windy here as well but nothing exceptional.

According to the BBC, there was a gust of 106 mph at The Needles in the
Isle of Wight, which I make 92 knots. To Carol Kirkwood's credit, she
made a point of saying that this was a very exposed location, and that
maximum gusts inland had been more like 50-60 mph.

I should have added that there was some sleet this morning, temperaturehad
dropped to 3C.

Alan

On Mon, 28 Mar 2016 10:37:41 +0100, John Hall
wrote:

In message , Alan
Gardiner writes
I just been looking at the Davis station gust speeds overnight, the two
highest I have found are West Wittering beach at 74knot and Prawle
Point, Devon at 70knot. There was a 61knot gust on the beach at Hove.

Quite windy here as well but nothing exceptional.

According to the BBC, there was a gust of 106 mph at The Needles in the
Isle of Wight, which I make 92 knots. To Carol Kirkwood's credit, she
made a point of saying that this was a very exposed location, and that
maximum gusts inland had been more like 50-60 mph.

There's inland and there's inland... and if she said that, she was
misleading. Many populated parts of the south coast that are not 'very
exposed' had gusts exceeding 70mph last night, including Southampton
Dockhead (75 mph several times) and along the Solent coastline down
past Portsmouth Harbour. 68mph gust at a reliable Hamble site 2 miles
from me and no doubt places further east like Brighton, too. '70mph
gusts in many populated south coastal areas' would be a better
summary.

While I have no problem with anyone being dismissive about exposed
places like Needles Battery, it does annoy me when they switch from
there to Swindon or Reading as if the south coast towns and cities
don't exist! Heck, central Southampton is by some definitions 'inland'
anyway! It was worse down here than '50-60 mph gusts' implies.

Off now to help my next door neighbour with some fence rebuilding, had
my 2nd, 3rd and 4th highest gusts for at least 3 years in my back
garden, spread out over a 5 hour period, and the fencing did not like
it.

--
Dave
Fareham (W)

In message
Dave Ludlow wrote:

On Mon, 28 Mar 2016 10:37:41 +0100, John Hall
wrote:

In message , Alan
Gardiner writes
I just been looking at the Davis station gust speeds overnight, the two
highest I have found are West Wittering beach at 74knot and Prawle
Point, Devon at 70knot. There was a 61knot gust on the beach at Hove.

Quite windy here as well but nothing exceptional.

According to the BBC, there was a gust of 106 mph at The Needles in the
Isle of Wight, which I make 92 knots. To Carol Kirkwood's credit, she
made a point of saying that this was a very exposed location, and that
maximum gusts inland had been more like 50-60 mph.

There's inland and there's inland... and if she said that, she was
misleading. Many populated parts of the south coast that are not 'very
exposed' had gusts exceeding 70mph last night, including Southampton
Dockhead (75 mph several times) and along the Solent coastline down
past Portsmouth Harbour. 68mph gust at a reliable Hamble site 2 miles
from me and no doubt places further east like Brighton, too. '70mph
gusts in many populated south coastal areas' would be a better
summary.

While I have no problem with anyone being dismissive about exposed
places like Needles Battery, it does annoy me when they switch from
there to Swindon or Reading as if the south coast towns and cities
don't exist! Heck, central Southampton is by some definitions 'inland'
anyway! It was worse down here than '50-60 mph gusts' implies.

Off now to help my next door neighbour with some fence rebuilding, had
my 2nd, 3rd and 4th highest gusts for at least 3 years in my back
garden, spread out over a 5 hour period, and the fencing did not like
it.

Not surprised Dave. Up here in the frozen north of Leicester, my
highest gust was 39.9mph. We always seem to avoid the extremes, here
in our hole in the ground.

--
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http://homepage.ntlworld.com/m.dixon4/Cumulus/index.htm

Believing is the start of everything to come. - Hayley Westenra

"Martin Dixon" wrote in message
...
In message
Dave Ludlow wrote:

On Mon, 28 Mar 2016 10:37:41 +0100, John Hall
wrote:

In message , Alan
Gardiner writes
I just been looking at the Davis station gust speeds overnight, the two
highest I have found are West Wittering beach at 74knot and Prawle
Point, Devon at 70knot. There was a 61knot gust on the beach at Hove.

Quite windy here as well but nothing exceptional.

According to the BBC, there was a gust of 106 mph at The Needles in the
Isle of Wight, which I make 92 knots. To Carol Kirkwood's credit, she
made a point of saying that this was a very exposed location, and that
maximum gusts inland had been more like 50-60 mph.

There's inland and there's inland... and if she said that, she was
misleading. Many populated parts of the south coast that are not 'very
exposed' had gusts exceeding 70mph last night, including Southampton
Dockhead (75 mph several times) and along the Solent coastline down
past Portsmouth Harbour. 68mph gust at a reliable Hamble site 2 miles
from me and no doubt places further east like Brighton, too. '70mph
gusts in many populated south coastal areas' would be a better
summary.

While I have no problem with anyone being dismissive about exposed
places like Needles Battery, it does annoy me when they switch from
there to Swindon or Reading as if the south coast towns and cities
don't exist! Heck, central Southampton is by some definitions 'inland'
anyway! It was worse down here than '50-60 mph gusts' implies.

Off now to help my next door neighbour with some fence rebuilding, had
my 2nd, 3rd and 4th highest gusts for at least 3 years in my back
garden, spread out over a 5 hour period, and the fencing did not like
it.

Not surprised Dave. Up here in the frozen north of Leicester, my
highest gust was 39.9mph. We always seem to avoid the extremes, here
in our hole in the ground.


Do you? At the extreme top of the Premier league?
Lineker's grin has got bigger and bigger.

Will
--
" Some sects believe that the world was created 5000 years ago. Another sect
believes that it was created in 1910 "
http://www.lyneside.demon.co.uk/Hayt...antage_Pro.htm
Will Hand (Haytor, Devon, 1017 feet asl)
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On Mon, 28 Mar 2016 23:58:38 +0100, Martin Dixon
wrote:

In message
Dave Ludlow wrote:
It was worse down here than '50-60 mph gusts' implies.

Off now to help my next door neighbour with some fence rebuilding, had
my 2nd, 3rd and 4th highest gusts for at least 3 years in my back
garden, spread out over a 5 hour period, and the fencing did not like
it.

Not surprised Dave. Up here in the frozen north of Leicester, my
highest gust was 39.9mph. We always seem to avoid the extremes, here
in our hole in the ground.

What Will said, lol.

My anemometer is only at 3m height at the end of my back garden,
surrounded on all sides by two storey houses, but it gives me a good
idea of wind speeds near ground level in a fairly level housing
estate, so I'm keeping it there. I may add a rooftop one later for
comparisons, but I can already compare with a suburban neighbour 300
yards to my east who publishes his rooftop readings to Wunderground,
like me. There's another 10m site on the river Hamble, 2 miles away.

Those two nearby sites recorded gusts of 72 and 68 mph respectively,
compared to my 37 mph - a factor for gusts of about 1.9. The mean wind
speed at the nearby suburban rooftop site was 1.8x higher than mine,
but the riverside site was 3.9x higher on means. These are the kinds
of things I'd like to investigate in more detail when I get my chimney
top 2nd anemometer.

--
Dave
Fareham (W)
https://www.wunderground.com/persona...ID=IENGLAND600