Tonight's storm: competition

[West is Best]

A competition which will close at 16h00 today to guess the strongest land gust i.e. on Britain and Ireland (smaller islands like Lundy don't count):

where?

how strong?

My guess:

Chivenor

88 mph

[03jtrickey]

Camborne

93mph

[stormchaser1]

Valentia Island- Bolus Head {SW Ireland}55mph - 60mph /gusts around 80mph between 2100 and 0000 tonight

Whitesand Bay { between St Just and Lands End}55- 60Mph gusts around 80mph between 0600 and 0900 tomorrow morning

Nigel

[Zenarcher]

Scilly Saint Mary's 65mph 9am sunday.

[Coast]

Camborne, 87 MPH

[tornadomanuk]

Alderney, CI ( if it counts?) - 79mph

Edited December 8, 2007 by tornadomanuk

[Pennine Ten Foot Drifts]

Culdrose - 82 (although I'll be very interested to see what the Marathon Gas platform in the St Georges channel clocks !)

Edited December 8, 2007 by Pennine Ten Foot Drifts

[Somerset Squall]

Culdrose- 87mph.

Isle Of Portland not far behind that I reckon.

[picog]

Valencia 99mph

[Joneseye]

Mumbles 87 mph

[Lightning Hunter]

Valentia - 75mph

[robl1200]

Lands End 112mph gust.

[Mondy]

St Ives - 80mph

Valencia - 105mph

[Matty M]

Valentia 95mph

[shuggee]

UK: Camborne 79mph

Ireland: Valentia 86mph

[Evening thunder]

valentia: 104mph.

camborne: 101mph.

dartmoor (if theres an exposed station there now) 99mph.

[Rustynailer]

Guernsey airport 85mph.

[West is Best]

Competition deadline has now passed - see below for late entry penalties!

I'll post up the list in a bit with 5 points for closest to location, reducing by 1 point for 2nd place, 3rd place etc. And we'll do 5 points for correct speed, reducing by 1 point. There will be a special bonus of 5 points for the closest in combination of speed and place!

1 point reductions for every 30 minutes for late entries past 16h00.

Hope that sounds fair! Just a bit of fun

Edited December 8, 2007 by La Nina

[January Snowstorm]

I'll go for a home town decision

Roches Point 102mph

Cork Airport close behind

[Roger J Smith]

Sorry didn't see this due to BEING ASLEEP ... I guess that's a valid excuse.

I would say 100 mph at Camborne at 0700.

[Damomanye]

valentia : 89mph

Edited December 8, 2007 by Damomanye

[shuggee]

Anyone got the results for this? I'm on the edge of my seat!

[Roger J Smith]

Well it's not up to me, but the highest land wind gust I saw was 77 mph at 0700 at Culdrose, whether that's actually the winning value or not, I don't know. It's a good bit lower than most of the guesses. Valentia had a max wind gust of 62 knots or about 70 mph. Doesn't count but Marathon had 91 mph.

[Candice]

Anyone got the results for this? I'm on the edge of my seat!

Well Weatheronline show Gurnsey Airport at 80mph

[Paul Sherman]

Roger

I am pretty sure the Title went to.........................Wait For It!

Lands End / St Just with 87mph

So there you have it, who was the nearest then!

Paul S