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Argyllcraig

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  1. Good morning folks,

    Any recommendations for a very robust anemometer (likely a whole new station therefore) that can survive the wind in the outer hebrides.

    I had finally calibrated my tfa nexus anemometer only to arrive home yesterday and find it upside down as the arm on which the direction vane and cups sit was rotated 180 degrees loose.  In total it survived 4 weeks in what was rather ordinary if not intense winds for this part of the world, so Im looking to see if folk have any recommendations of equipment that can cope with sustained winds of 50mph+ gusting over 100mph.

    Cheerie.

    Craig.

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  2. A GFS super storm on the 12z lol... It won't verify but if it did it would have major impacts. 

     

    Yes indeedy.  I've been following the modelling for this signal for about 6 days now when it was well out in FI, track will be interesting with a powerful jet sending it across us.  Might be more than just a "drying day" for the washing for us up here.

     

    The sustained speeds are quite something, I don't think as bad as the jan storm this year  but strong enough none the less.

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  3. good evening, quite a noisy one so far up here in the western isles.

     

    windy midday followed by a very dramatic lull and even some nice late evening sunshine out on the west coast here.

     

    Abigail making herself known now.  

     

    I've had sustained winds of over 40mph for an hour or so now, top gust here off my station at 1812 was 66.7mph.   Had a slight dropping off since then again in terms of the gusts but as i type there we go 63.1mph.

     

    could be an interesting night.

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  4. As expected, the overnight GFS has changed. The 06z looks a bit weird to me as it doesn't even concur with the Met forecast of a chilly weekend. I would certainly think the Met would be right at this range? Unless I'm reading things wrong but the 850s seem higher on the 06z than those that the Meto are predicting?

    The 06z has been the coldest run for this weekend i think.

    From the 850s we are looking at munro level temps of about -3 to -6c depending on whether your east or west and on local conditions plus we have high pressure nudging in so we could see colder nights still.

    Most positive thing from the 06z run is it continues to back up the pattern change in about 5-7 days time which is closer to reliable time frame. All the ensemble members have moved from the 6c to -6c band and now in the long run they all fall sub zero to -12c which is a welcome trend.

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