Gerrit’s 86 mph Winds Measured At Top Of 400 Foot Clifftop
By Paul Homewood
h/t idau
We appear to have tracked down that Kincardineshire weather station, which set up the hype about “85 mph winds”:
Inverbervie is the only climate station in that area, though I have asked the Met Office to confirm.
As suspected, the weather station is not in the town of Inverbervie, but at the top of clifftops about 600m from the sea, and at an altitude of 134m:
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Google Earth gives a good idea of just how exposed the site is:
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The photo below of Big Rob’s Cove, which is down the hill from the weather station gives an excellent view of how high and steep the cliffs are:
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Big Rob’s Cove
https://getoutside.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/local/big-robs-cove-aberdeenshire/?v=2021
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Average wind speeds at Inverbervie itself only hit 30 mph, a Strong Breeze on the Beaufort Scale:
https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/@2646134/historic
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Once again the Met Office are guilty of using a totally unrepresentative site for the express purpose of stoking climate alarm.
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
I don’t know the history of this particular weather station, but the obvious probability is that it has been established precisely to generate “extreme” wind data for the benefit of “The Settled Science” scam and it’s cultists.
Why would any normal person care a toss what windspeed was recorded at such a site?
Actually Martin this particular site is quite longstanding and accords with the Met Office’s original intended purpose.
“The Met Office was founded in 1854 in response to an international drive to improve knowledge and understanding of maritime meteorology”
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/library-and-archive/archive-hidden-treasures/met-office-history
This site does exactly what it was intended for regarding local weather. What it does not do, nor was intended for, is indicate the completely separate issue of climate. Sadly the Met Office is now effectively out of control and a law unto itself hence it deliberately misuses respectable data in addition to concocting data.
Ships don’t sail on the top of hills.
In any case an onshore wind will necessarily accelerate over such terrain.
The Gaia hair shirt wearers are well agitated over a bit of rough winter stormy winter weather, poor righteous souls crying for mankind’s climate sins
We caused this extreme weather we have never seen before since …EVER
Somehow we will have to pay for this
If only the whole world was run on bamboo windmills instead of filthy carbon, it would be exactly 1 degree cooler, and create a perfect unchanging utopian climate
This hill in Inverbervie has a secret bunker constructed during the Cold War
Indeed it has.
https://www.subbrit.org.uk/sites/inverbervie-rotor-radar-station/
The Met Office used to be part of the MOD hence used these sorts of sites.
Secret?
Very good point!
If it is a long-standing weather station, I assume the historical records will be similarly exaggerated so they should be used for comparison.
Here they are going back to 1985
https://www.meteoblue.com/en/weather/archive/export/inverbervie_united-kingdom_2646134?fcstlength=1m&year=1991&month=1
Talking of the storm and its affects, there’s a good photo in most of today’s papers and around the web of two houses in a terrace that have had their roof ripped off – while others are hardly damaged. I appreciate it could be a whirlwind effect but take a look at the roofs and their construction. For a start, the tiles look very new and the roof timber-construction looks ‘odd’.
I noted the lack insulation too
Blown away maybe?
Roger Pielke Jr. debunks the ‘weather getting worse’ propaganda…
Was The ‘Preindustrial Period’ Of 1850-1900 An Era Of Perfect Climate?
DEC 27, 2023
This cursory overview of various events of the 1870s indicates that the notion that the period 1850 to 1900 was somehow safer or less extreme in terms of climate extremes and impacts is simply false.
If the weather gods offered me the opportunity to replay over the next decade the weather and climate of the 1870s instead of the uncertain future before us, I’d take the uncertain future for sure.
The 1870s were one of the most extreme climatic decades in modern human history.
https://climatechangedispatch.com/was-the-preindustrial-period-of-1850-1900-an-era-of-perfect-climate/
Here we talk in knots….75kts in the southern part of NZ in not too uncommon
It’s interesting to observe the behaviour of some of the nearby windfarms. THe Kincardine Floating Offshore windfarm that gets 3.5ROCs/MWh on top of market prices appears to have kept going at capacity throughout – can’t afford to miss out on £234/MWh of subsidies! Seagreen, which is on a CFD paying £52.41/MWh which it has yet to commence – and is therefore, like Moray East, on market prices, opted to go for curtailment payments much of the time, since doubtless the surfeit of wind made those more profitable.
Explore here:
https://renewables-map.robinhawkes.com/#7.12/56.636/-1.927