{"id":282104,"date":"2023-10-06T10:12:54","date_gmt":"2023-10-06T08:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=282104"},"modified":"2023-10-06T10:12:57","modified_gmt":"2023-10-06T08:12:57","slug":"storm-agnes-in-pembrokeshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=282104","title":{"rendered":"Storm Agnes In\u00a0Pembrokeshire"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Paul Homewood<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In yesterday\u2019s post, this comment was left about Storm Agnes. So I wondered if I had missed something.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Met Office\u2019s obsession with extreme wind speeds in highly exposed and upland sites diverts attention away from what is going on down below, where we all happen to live.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is of course human nature to blur out the past and think that everything nowadays is bigger, worse\/better, wetter\/drier and so on than in the past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So I have taken a look at Milford Haven, which on the south coast of Pembrokeshire would have borne the brunt of the southerly winds from Agnes. I doubt whether anywhere else in the region would have experienced stronger winds, unless in unusually exposed locations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sustained wind speeds peaked at 32 mph during the storm, which puts it on the borderline between a strong breeze and a near gale on the Beaufort Scale:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Wind speeds of this level are commonplace in the UK, and certainly so on exposed coasts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s no evidence either from the Met Office that rainfall was particularly high in South Wales, with the heaviest rain falling in N Ireland and Scotland:<\/p>\n\n\n

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