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5 minutes ago, GSP said:
In the 87 storm, I remember seeing images of swathes of trees down like something had barrelled through a forest. I wonder if that was a sting jet in operation?
An entire mature woodland was flattened near me on Burns Day. Wasn't a sting jet - just that the soil there was shallow and the trees hadn't been tested by such a wind in the previous decades since being planted.
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20 minutes ago, Ross90 said:
I can see your point re it deserving more coverage but I think it's the South east bias on here and often on the news coverage of storms that irritates some people. I'm pretty sure most northern members on here would agree that if Eunice was forecast to hit north of Manchester then it would definitely not have 25 + pages. I wasn't on here in 2011/12 but there were two storms of similar strength to Eunice which mostly affected the north of England, NI and Scotland. I'd hazard a guess that those got nowhere near as much attention on here.
That may be justified to some extent because many Things That Will Blow Down in 70/80mph Gusts have already blown down over recent years in the north, whereas the south has accumulated a big store of these things since 1990.
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4 minutes ago, SnowBear said:
It won't I doubt, or at least not noticeable.
5 mbar in NZ, I'd have thought we might manage 0.1 in Europe.
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When will the pressure wave arrive in the UK?
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-5.6 in Santon Downham in June 1962 in and -9.4 in nearby Lynford in May 1941 are quite impressive. I doubt we'll see lower May/June temps again any time soon in southern England.
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9 minutes ago, DaveL said:
(and for consistency, applied retrospectively to past records too).
Not sure that is easy. Did the weather station in Cambridge that recorded the still-standing record November high of 70F in 1938 meet current standards? Where even in Cambridge was it located?
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If the Radcliffe Observatory in Oxford can happily downgrade to a Class 5 site every June (see here), then it shouldn't be surprising what goes on around lesser stations.
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Hi, I visited the Cambridge Botanic Garden site this morning and have uploaded three photos to Wikimedia Commons where you can see the current extent of bare soil and vegetation:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cambridge_Botanic_Garden_Weather_Station_from_the_West.jpg
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Competition: How hot is it going to be?
in Spring Weather Discussion
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36.2C Cambridge Botanic Garden