Barbara another totally forgettable storm
There were gusts of over fifty knots in the channel and along the French, Belgium and Dutch coastline at 12 UTC today from the low that developed from storm Barbara, but apart from a coastal gale …
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Latest on Barbara
There certainly will be a spell of southwesterly gales running in the Eastern English Channel on Wednesday that may well produce an hour or two of coastal gales along the Kent coast, that’s if this latest …
Last night’s curious low
An interesting night over the north of Scotland with an early evening minimum of just 1°C (~1900 UTC) at Loch Glascarnoch, before the clouds rolled in from the west ahead of a small but vigorous low …
The Great storm versus Storm Alex
The contouring doesn’t do justice to the very tight centre of Storm Alex, but the wind speeds at 06 UTC chart more than show the difference between the two.
Northerly picking up in the southwest
As storm Alex does a pirouette in the English channel and starts to track back southward the northeasterly wind across the far southwest of England and the northwest of France is starting to increase with gusts …
Storm Alex overnight – bark worse that it’s bite
Storm Alex produced an extreme mean wind speed of 47 knots and gust of 101 knots on the islands of Belle Ile-Le Talut off the coast of Brittany at midnight, and storm force gusts on two …
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Explosive deepening of Storm Alex
It looks like Meteo France are not being rushed into naming Friday’s low storm Alex, so the Met Office are being forced to play the waiting game, even though the low is forecast to undergo explosive …
Storm Odette and the storm naming farce
I hadn’t realised that yesterday’s fierce little low in the southern North Sea had been named storm Odette by the Belgium Royal Meteorological Institute (RMI). The north northwesterlies from it are still blowing a steady force …
Bracing down the east coast with gusts of 58 knots at Donna Nook
Well done to the Met Office with their yellow wind warning for strong wind they issued yesterday, who says that I’m always critical of them? Although I will say they did leave the start time for …
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Living life on the edge
Exeter are obviously confident that they’ve plumped for the right area to issue a yellow strong wind warning for – East Anglia for tomorrow rather than one for the southwest for today. It’s the same feature …
Equinoctial gales: fact or fiction?
Equinoctial galesThe implication contained in this term, which is in fairly wide popular use, that GALES are either more frequent or more severe near the EQUINOXES than at other times, is not supported by observations. In …
Storm Francis – Wind
A few more observational details regarding the winds on the 25th August 2020 associated with storm Francis
All in all storm Francis was a bit of a damp squib
By the end of Tuesday the highest gusts inland where generally if not exclusively in the 50 to 60 mph yellow range rather than in the 60 to 70 mph amber category that was forecast. There …
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25 August 2020 – 11 UTC winds
The strongest winds at 11 UTC this morning were around coastal regions as would be expected (~61 mph). A couple of the usual culprits are at the top of the table of highest gust table (Aberdaron …
Amber warning issued – now Francis is a pukka storm!
Someone down at EX1 must have been reading the criticism I made yesterday regarding named storms always being linked with the issuing of an amber and not a yellow warning for wind. The reason I say …
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Met Office lowers threshold for named storms to increase their number
Remember you read it here first If you remember on Saturday I posted that Tuesday’s low might end up being named storm Francis, and for once, because I’ve often attempted this, I was correct. But I …
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I wish I had a pound for everytime the Needles registered the highest gust
It has been a very windy day for August across England and Wales today thanks to storm Ellen, with the southwesterly wind generally blowing force six occasionally seven at times. According to Louise Lear the Needles …
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Winds from storm Ellen
The 89 mph guts at Roches point at 22 UTC is the highest that I can see. The mean speeds at Shannon and Roches point indicate that this was a full blown force nine gale and …
Was storm Ellen really a tropical storm in disguise?
I received an email this morning regarding the intensity of storm Ellen yesterday evening from Stephen Burt (which I thought was was very kind of him). In the 23 UTC observation at Shannon airport the MSLP …
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Emphasis switches to south coast as Ellen does a 48 hour long pirouette over Ireland
It looks like the strongest of the winds from Storm Ellen will now affect the south coast of Ireland later this evening (T+24) rather than the northwest if this hires ECMWF model is correct. That’s not …
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Joint warning for the whole of Ireland for Thursday
It is nice to see at least one of the national Met Services in this part of the world being grown up about weather warnings these days as Met Eireann now display warnings for both the …
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A taste of what’s to come this Autumn?
The one thing that you can never say about the weather across IONA is that it’s ever boring. After an eight day heat wave across England comes to a thundery end, a taste of maybe what’s …
Repeat after me – a gust of 34 knots or higher does not make a gale
It is one thing having a gust of gale force and a true gale. Stav obviously thinks the country is experiencing a true gale quite widely today, but he is wrong and it’s misleading. But apart …
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