Thread: Stationary low to the west of Cornwall for all of 02 March ?
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Old February 25th 18, 04:27 PM posted to uk.sci.weather
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Default Stationary low to the west of Cornwall for all of 02 March ?
On Sunday, February 25, 2018 at 4:54:42 PM UTC, N_Cook wrote:
The GFS 12Z run has that low deepened 10mB to 961mB and sitting a bit to
the west of Lands End for a whole day, 24 hours, throwing wind into the
English Channel continuously, varying from 45mph to 55mph. I wonder when
there was a precedant for that sort of situation, assuming it comes about.

Quite a few similar, some a good deal more exciting/damaging. Deep slow moving lows off Cornwall are not that unusual.

E.g http://old.wetterzentrale.de/archive...ka20041028.gif sat around for a while, and in Mount's Bay generated a swell bigger, and more damaging, than anything in 2014. http://www.turnstone-cottage.co.uk/PzStorm.PDF .

The current developments are rather more similar to those which gave the last real blizzard in Cornwall, wayback in Jan 1987. It's all getting a bit late in the winter though, for it to be a real repeat in the far SW.

Time will tell of course.

Graham
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