On Tue, 7 Oct 2008 at 20:43:48, Nick Gardner
wrote in uk.sci.weather :

What a wild, wet and windy spell starting in the early hours this morning.

Indeed.

Even my overly sheltered wind gauge managed to record its first 20mph
gust, yesterday.
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Paul Hyett, Cheltenham (change 'invalid83261' to 'blueyonder' to email me)