Penzance - Onshore gale.

[Graham Easterling]

Well, another gale - a bit more normal this time, peak gusts around the 60mph mark. However, in Penzance it's directly onshore, so a good time to visit the prom.

A F8 on the prom

Two hours after high tide. A few people are going to find their cars pebble dashed, they were parked overnight.

Went in the Jubilee pool cafe, still incredible stories from storm Goretti. One of the lifeguards who lives on the Lizard had no water for 3 days, no electricity for 4 days, and no mobile signal for a week. So even if the phone batterry struggled on  no network or wifi. She said it was creepy siting in the dark on consecutive evenings not knowing what was happening in the outside world to sort things. Makes you wonder how old people living alone in the dark & cold felt.

In the outside world, on Monday, 4 days after the storm, a minister stood up in the Commons to say only 193 properties needed to be re-connected! He was living in some sort of parallel universe. The estimated number of trees lost in Cornwall is now over 100,000 and rising. Many properties are still running on emergency generators.

Nice to be back to normal bad weather!!

Graham

Penzance

[Ashley haworth-roberts]

According to today's Met Office News article:  While at this range there is still some uncertainty, it is possible another deep area of low pressure could approach the southwest of the UK through Tuesday morning. This could bring another day of very wet and windy conditions to areas that have suffered from stormy conditions through January. Other scenarios would see the low track further south, reducing the risk of impactful weather.

[Graham Easterling]

I don't think they'll be reports from Gwennap Head for a while (hopefully I'll be proved wrong) rather badly damaged by Goretti. The windiest spot(?) in England seems to have succombed. 

https://www.facebook.com/NCIGwennapHead/

Nearest to Lands End still running

https://www.landsendweather.info/   A mere 66mph today, though it did top F9

Graham

Penzance

Very eventful weather lately.

On Friday, 23 January 2026 at 12:41:06 UTC Graham Easterling wrote:

[Graham Easterling]

It was always going to be the sea rather than the wind this time around, that depression was so slow moving.

Another pic of Penzance prom (not mine this time.)

The Jubilee pool has escaped fairly unscathed, ( video of the waves overtopping - it was much worse in the evening https://www.facebook.com/reel/3509567979206284?locale=en_GB ) as has the prom, to my knowledge. Amazing to see people still driving along the prom!

There have been a number of years when there's been a SE gale & a higher energy wave, notable (this century) 2014

Pool & prom & railway line then then

Bit surprised the line at Dawlish succombed this time. There have been significantly more powerful waves, stronger SE gales, & higher tides. Makes you wonder what a worse case scenario (which 2014 certainly was in Torbay & Mount's Bay) would do despite the many millions spent on the line it since 2014.

Graham

Penzance

On Friday, 23 January 2026 at 12:41:06 UTC Graham Easterling wrote:

[Ashley haworth-roberts]

Issues elsewhere in south Devon:  Teignmouth Pier washes away and sea wall crumbles during Storm Ingrid - BBC News