Inverbervie Confirmed As Site Of 86 Mph Winds
By Paul Homewood
A bit more information on the windspeeds at Inverbervie during Storm Gerrit:
https://twitter.com/williemossop/status/1740055212122144946
Willie is an ex-metman, and produces some wonderfully detailed weather posts on X.
He has managed to confirm that those 86 mph winds really did come from the Inverbervie station, which we suspected. The altitude is as the Met Office stated – 134m.
His graph also shows average windspeeds, which appear to have peaked at around 67 mph:
You will recall that at sea level in Inverbervie itself, average windspeeds peaked at 30 mph.
The difference between sea level and a 440 foot clifftop is stark, and confirms that the Met Office’s focus on these exposed sites is grossly misleading the public.
Maybe next time we have a heatwave, they might like to highlight temperatures at the top of Ben Nevis, instead of Heathrow!
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
The news tonight have just announced a tornado risk in the UK. Really.
When researching my historical novel based on the loss of the packet ship Hanover off the south Cornish coast in 1763, I discovered that fierce storms and tornados were not at all uncommon. There are frequent references at the time in local literature to fallen trees, missing roofs and fallen church spires as well as much local flooding. If people would only study history they would realise how lucky they are to be living in the benign twenty first century.
Apologies! That should be the north Cornish coast.
Scary that even weather data are now politically corrected.
I suppose at least they didn’t quote the 120+mph winds atop Cairngorm. But the fact that Kincardine Floating Wind kept operating throughout suggests that even at hub height offshore the winds didn’t reach cut out speeds, which demonstrates just how much of a funnel effect is provided by the cliffs and hill.