By Paul Homewood
We’re beginning to get some more wind data in for Storm Darragh, so we can piece together what was actually happening in the real world, away from those fake sites peddled by the Met Office.
At Rhyl, for instance, wind gusts peaked at 60 mph, with sustained winds of 34 mph, a Moderate Gale on the Beaufort Scale. Rhyl is on the North Wales coast, and would have been amongst the parts of Wales most exposed to those NW winds.
22 miles to the east, Hawarden Airport saw slightly lower wind speeds of 56 mph. This was the part of England and Wales most affected after the initial hit on the Welsh coast – the Merseyside derby, for instance, was cancelled because of high winds, understandably so.
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/observations/gcmr2gmc8
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/observations/gcmys019j
Clearly the real world data makes a nonsense of claims of “90 mph winds”.
An accurate headline would have said “60 mph winds hit parts of the country”.
FOOTNOTE
You may have spotted that the Met Office have found another location to beat Capel Curig – Berry Head, near Torbay, which is situated on a clifftop near the Lighthouse, on the site of an Iron Age hill fort. If you thought that was a good place to measure windspeeds, think again!
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The Met Office must know that wind speeds at Berry Head are meaningless, unless you were thinking of paragliding off the top, as their own weather station in Exeter just along the coast only hit 58 mph.
