Although I haven't been recording wind speed for all of the period since
then, I can't recall any stronger than this, certainly during daytime.

I recorded a gust of 51mph at around 12.45 yesterday, well above my
previous record of 45.

--

Paul Hyett, Cheltenham

On 24/02/2017 07:01, Vidcapper wrote:
Although I haven't been recording wind speed for all of the period since
then, I can't recall any stronger than this, certainly during daytime.

I recorded a gust of 51mph at around 12.45 yesterday, well above my
previous record of 45.

Its curious how localised the storm was. Where I was in North Yorkshire
there was a bit of a wet squall at one point but the wind was nothing to
get excited about. It was very much worse overnight on Tuesday.

Doris was a damp squib as far as we were concerned as RAF Leeming
observations confirm. Pressure rising from 1005 and wind feeble.

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/w...tion/gcwuvhmch

I gather it was much more violent in Newcastle and further north.

How deep was the low in the end?

Did Doris really deserve such bombastic advance publicity?

--
Regards,
Martin Brown

Vidcapper wrote:

Although I haven't been recording wind speed for all of the period since
then, I can't recall any stronger than this, certainly during daytime.

I recorded a gust of 51mph at around 12.45 yesterday, well above my previous
record of 45.


A very different experience in Tideswell. The max gust of 46 knots here
yesterday has been exceeded in 6 out of the past 8 years. As I said in an
earlier thread, it looks as though the belt of strongest winds was a little way
to the south of us. The highest in my record is 56 knots in December 2013.

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

We saw a max 3m gust of 52 knots at around 1400 yesterday near Soham in East
Cambs. What was relatively unusual were the sustained periods of high 5 min
mean speeds, which were near 35 knots at times. Not that remarkable in
general, but unusual for us in inland lowland Southern England.

On Friday, February 24, 2017 at 7:01:49 AM UTC, vidcapper wrote:
Although I haven't been recording wind speed for all of the period since
then, I can't recall any stronger than this, certainly during daytime.

I recorded a gust of 51mph at around 12.45 yesterday, well above my
previous record of 45.

--

Paul Hyett, Cheltenham

For absolute values it was quite something along Irish Sea coasts & N Wales.. It was notable for the fact that the swathe of really strong winds crossed an area where such conditions are very rare, which have a high population, large numbers of trees etc. to block rail lines etc.

If you look at http://tinyurl.com/zfmt34s southernmost counties got off lightly.

Down here, although the strongest gusts were generally just 50mph (away from areas sheltered in a westerly, like Penzance - max 42mph), were not greatly down on areas where there was quite major disruption. It's just that down here such winds are common, so most of the landscape west of Penzance is pretty treeless - so not much to blow down.

In fact, by strongest gust, it was the 571st(!) windiest day in Penzance since 01/01/1992. So, on average, 2 days a month are windier. Of course, the wind was offshore here. I noticed the SW BBC weather used a stormy picture of Porthleven. Not taken yesterday, but it fitted the story.

Graham
Penzance



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On Friday, February 24, 2017 at 4:00:19 AM UTC-5, Martin Brown wrote:

Its curious how localised the storm was. Where I was in North Yorkshire
there was a bit of a wet squall at one point but the wind was nothing to
get excited about. It was very much worse overnight on Tuesday.

Doris was a damp squib as far as we were concerned as RAF Leeming
observations confirm. Pressure rising from 1005 and wind feeble.

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/w...tion/gcwuvhmch

I gather it was much more violent in Newcastle and further north.

How deep was the low in the end?

Did Doris really deserve such bombastic advance publicity?

--
Regards,
Martin Brown

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Forecasts were good and models dealt with this storm very well, especially considering its developmental nature. I'm not sure where any "bombastic publicity" came from (although I appreciate the pun, if it were intended!) Did the tabloids go crazy?

The lowest central pressure I saw with a quick look was 974 hPa near Belfast at 06UTC on February 23rd. It might have got a shade lower.

Stephen.

Forecasts were good and models dealt with this storm very well, especially considering its developmental nature.

Stephen.

Yes, exceptionally well I thought.

What exactly was it that the models picked up on which indicated it would be much more severe than a normal developing 'wave' depression?

Graham
Penzance

In message , Vidcapper
writes
Although I haven't been recording wind speed for all of the period
since then, I can't recall any stronger than this, certainly during
daytime.

Here in Surrey, we had much stronger winds in the "Burns' Day storm" in
January 1990, and also in 2013-14 (if I'm thinking of the right year -
it was the winter that was also exceedingly wet, IIRC).


I recorded a gust of 51mph at around 12.45 yesterday, well above my
previous record of 45.


Charlwood, some 9 miles east of me, seems to have had a maximum gust of
52 mph. I don't know what the strongest gusts were in those previous
storms I mentioned, but I'd guess somewhere around 60-70 mph.

To convert those values into knots, I think if you took off 10% you
wouldn't be too far out.
--
John Hall
"One can certainly imagine the myriad of uses
for a hand-held iguana maker"
Hobbes (the tiger, not the philosopher!)

"Vidcapper" wrote in message
...
Although I haven't been recording wind speed for all of the period since
then, I can't recall any stronger than this, certainly during daytime.

I recorded a gust of 51mph at around 12.45 yesterday, well above my
previous record of 45.

--

Paul Hyett, Cheltenham


Max gust here in Wokingham yesterday, 23rd Feb 2017, was 55 kt.

Here are the ranked annual max gusts in knots for Wokingham since 1988.

1...70 25 Jan 1990
2...66 13 Jan 1993
3...64 18 Jan 2007
4...59 17 Dec1989
=5...57 5 Jan 1991
=5...57 4 Jan 1994
=5...57 30 Oct 2000
8... 56 28 Oct 2013
=9...55 1 Mar 1998
=9...55 15 Feb 2014

--
Bernard Burton

Satellite images and weather data for Wokingham at:
www.woksat.info/wwp.html



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Graham Easterling wrote:



Forecasts were good and models dealt with this storm very well, especially
considering its developmental nature.

Stephen.

Yes, exceptionally well I thought.

What exactly was it that the models picked up on which indicated it would be
much more severe than a normal developing 'wave' depression?

Graham
Penzance

It wasn't that it was more severe than a 'normal' wave depression. It was the
location of the low centre (over the British Isles) at the precise time of
maximum intensity that was the relevant factor. That's just a quirk of the
detail of the jet stream and the location of the initial surface development
relative to the jet stream core. And, yes, all of the models that I looked at
handled the development extremely well. It was clearly a very forecastable
situation for today's knowledge and technology.

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