Mean wind speed reached 50mph near Land's End around 04:00 (F9) with gusts to 66mph. http://www.landsendweather.info/

Nice & bright now (09:45) with sunny spells & a decreasing wind. Now waiting the forecast really big sea. Currently 15' at Sevenstones and increasing.

Graham
Penzance

Mean wind speed reached 50mph near Land's End around 04:00 (F9) with gusts
to 66mph. http://www.landsendweather.info/

Looks to me like the mean speed was 40mph at that time - but windy
nevertheless....
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Freddie
Bayston Hill
Shropshire
102m AMSL
http://www.hosiene.co.uk/weather/
https://twitter.com/#!/BaystonHillWx for hourly reports

On Sunday, January 27, 2013 10:14:55 AM UTC, Freddie wrote:
Mean wind speed reached 50mph near Land's End around 04:00 (F9) with gusts

to 66mph. http://www.landsendweather.info/



Looks to me like the mean speed was 40mph at that time - but windy

nevertheless....

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Freddie
Bayston Hill
Shropshire
102m AMSL

http://www.hosiene.co.uk/weather/


Well I was just going by what the AWS reported. Looking at the graph the average seems to be in the 45 to 50mph thoughout the 06:30 - 0700 period as well to me.

John Chappell's site is interesting one to watch, as it's close to Gwennap Head, generally accepted to be the windiest sub 1,000'site in England.

On 15 December 1979 Gewnnap Head recorded 103 knots, I'll let you conver it into mph.

Graham
Penzance

On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 04:48:03 -0800 (PST), Graham Easterling
wrote:
Mean wind speed reached 50mph near Land's End around 04:00 (F9)
with gusts
to 66mph. http://www.landsendweather.info/

Looks to me like the mean speed was 40mph at that time - but
windy
nevertheless....

Well I was just going by what the AWS reported. Looking at the
graph the average seems to be in the 45 to 50mph thoughout the 06:30
- 0700 period as well to me.
Indeed - so was I. The blue line on the graph shows the average
speed; the red line shows you the gust speed. I think you are
possibly looking at the "mean of the gust speeds" around the times
you indicate.

John Chappell's site is interesting one to watch, as it's close to
Gwennap Head, generally accepted to be the windiest sub 1,000'site in
England.
Yes, I quite often look at that one. There used to be a Met Office
official site at Gwennap Head - don't know if that still exists.

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Freddie
Bayston Hill
Shropshire
102m AMSL
http://www.hosiene.co.uk/weather/
https://twitter.com/#!/BaystonHillWx*for hourly reports*

SNIP

Well I was just going by what the AWS reported.

Indeed - so was I. The blue line on the graph shows the average
speed; the red line shows you the gust speed. I think you are
possibly looking at the "mean of the gust speeds" around the times
you indicate.

Good point! I picked the maximum average up from the Max Average Box.

John Chappell's site is interesting one to watch, as it's close to
Gwennap Head, generally accepted to be the windiest sub 1,000'site in
England.

Yes, I quite often look at that one. There used to be a Met Office
official site at Gwennap Head - don't know if that still exists.

Sadly not. Since government cutbacks led to the closure of many coastguard lookout, they are virually all now run be volunteers. Gwennap Head lookout is now run by NCI http://www.nci.org.uk/gwennaphead

Similar cutbacks mean that virtually all lifeguard cover in Cornwall is now provided by the RNLI.

Graham