Rp0thejester wrote: ↑31 Oct 2023, 18:51
Lmao, was the storm that bad?? I'm now looking at trees near my house.....
For our northern correspondents, it was probably akin to a light summer breeze
but for us down on the south coast it was very grim. I think they reckoned it was the strongest winds for 250 years - couple that with the rain soaked and soft ground and the fact that 'down here' are (were ?) the most wooded counties in the UK and the trees still had a good covering of leaves.... it was somewhat devastating.
Jim took a photo of the Shoreham lighthouse (that I reposted somewhere), and behind that was the new lifeboat station. I think the original lifeboat house recorded one of - if not the - highest winds of the storm. It was either there or The Needles on the I.O.W. that recorded a high gust then the anemometer got blown away in the winds
Edit. Thanks to Mick's link of the BBC article I can confirm...... "A maximum gust of 115mph was recorded at Shoreham in West Sussex"