"Tom Gardner" wrote in message news:wPdbu.30264
the winds will be 18-21mph mean, gusting to 36-38mph.
Hurricane is 75mph mean and above.

Of course, local conditions may be different, but that's /always/
the case.

Maybe you were here where the wind got up today to 60-?
We have a warning about we are going to get high winds and you might be
lucky if you don't.

On 27/10/2013 19:57, Christina Websell wrote:
"Tom Gardner" wrote in message news:wPdbu.30264
the winds will be 18-21mph mean, gusting to 36-38mph.
Hurricane is 75mph mean and above.

Of course, local conditions may be different, but that's /always/
the case.

Maybe you were here where the wind got up today to 60-?
We have a warning about we are going to get high winds and you might be
lucky if you don't.


Well here around Swansea Bay the wind at the Mumbles gusted to 59mph or
over for 7 hours, with a base speed of 40mph and over for 11 hours.
David

On 27/10/13 20:19, David Hill wrote:
On 27/10/2013 19:57, Christina Websell wrote:
"Tom Gardner" wrote in message news:wPdbu.30264
the winds will be 18-21mph mean, gusting to 36-38mph.
Hurricane is 75mph mean and above.

Of course, local conditions may be different, but that's /always/
the case.

Maybe you were here where the wind got up today to 60-?
We have a warning about we are going to get high winds and you might be
lucky if you don't.


Well here around Swansea Bay the wind at the Mumbles gusted to 59mph or over for 7 hours, with a base speed of 40mph and over for 11 hours.
David

That doesn't surprise me: somewhere 100ft up on the coast is
always going to see more than the 30ft forecast inland.

On 27/10/2013 20:37, Tom Gardner wrote:
On 27/10/13 20:19, David Hill wrote:
On 27/10/2013 19:57, Christina Websell wrote:
"Tom Gardner" wrote in message
news:wPdbu.30264
the winds will be 18-21mph mean, gusting to 36-38mph.
Hurricane is 75mph mean and above.

Of course, local conditions may be different, but that's /always/
the case.

Maybe you were here where the wind got up today to 60-?
We have a warning about we are going to get high winds and you might be
lucky if you don't.


Well here around Swansea Bay the wind at the Mumbles gusted to 59mph
or over for 7 hours, with a base speed of 40mph and over for 11 hours.
David

That doesn't surprise me: somewhere 100ft up on the coast is
always going to see more than the 30ft forecast inland.

Yes?
But we are over 300ft above the Mumbles where those figures are from so
chances are we had more than the figures I quoted.

On 27/10/13 19:57, Christina Websell wrote:
"Tom Gardner" wrote in message news:wPdbu.30264
the winds will be 18-21mph mean, gusting to 36-38mph.
Hurricane is 75mph mean and above.

Of course, local conditions may be different, but that's /always/
the case.

Maybe you were here where the wind got up today to 60-?

Coleshill had 15 gusting to 35-40
Nottingham had 20-25 gusting to 40-45

We have a warning about we are going to get high winds and you might be
lucky if you don't.

So did we in Bristol, to the extent my mother was /very/ worried.
The forecast was pretty much right on, 20-25 gusting to 40.

In other words, nothing exceptional and certainly nothing to
worry about. /Certainly/ not a "hurricane" (i.e. 75+)!

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"Tom Gardner" wrote in message news:wPdbu.30264
the winds will be 18-21mph mean, gusting to 36-38mph.
Hurricane is 75mph mean and above.

Of course, local conditions may be different, but that's /always/
the case.

Maybe you were here where the wind got up today to 60-?

Still not a hurricane. 60 mph gusts are common here and nothing to worry
about.

Janet