Yellow warning for the south?

[Graham Easterling]

It has clearly been very stormy across the north, and down the west coast as far as N Wales, but weather warning for the south SE?

Quick glance this morning, during the warming

Well, Pembroke perhaps, but orange coloured Cornwall possibly, but it was completely ordinary very blustery sort of morning. Forecast for Penzance on the MetO and BBC sites at 8am showed a maximum of 13C, with MetO showing 80-90% chance of rain until early afternoon.

In practice it's now at 02:45 16C. There's been no measurable rain since 9am, and good periods of sunshine. In fact, somewhere sheltered like Mousehole it was very pleasant for a stroll. 

St Ives around noon

Maximum gust here in Penzance 39mph, which is nothing really, I have recorded 81mph. Even at Lands End, facing straight into the westerly, gusting in the 50s, a spot where it needs to exceed 70mph before people take notice.

I'm sure BBC Spotlight will find a tree branch down, but in Cornwall that happens all the time without warnings. In fact west of Penzance there's barely a tree worth the name left to blow down, it's just normal Atlantic seaboard weather.

Sea's very rough where exposed to the wind obviously, but anywhere with a bit of shelter, it's just fine. 

I think warnings could be a lot more specific. Now, if I was in Tiree - the amber warning was completely justified!

Graham

Penzance