Risk of more gales or severe gales in Cornwall later this week

[Ashley haworth-roberts]

No Met Office warnings as yet.

[Freddie]

Not enough confidence in it happening at the moment.  Don't want to cry "wolf".

[Graham Easterling]

We're used to gales on the tip of Cornwall, but the last one was a bit of one off!!! Certainly the worst I've experienced since December 1979, when  a 118mph gust was recorded at Gwennap Head. Slates were sucked off the lee side of buildings. .Strongest reliably recorded low level gusts by country.

• 123.4 knots (142 mph) on 13 February 1989 at Fraserburgh in Aberdeenshire. (Scotland)
• 107.8 knots (124 mph) on 12 January 1974 at Kilkeel in County Down.              (Ireland) 
• 102.5 knots (118 mph) on 15 December 1979 at Gwennap Head in Cornwall.    (England) 
•  (different wind direction for Goretti, so the >100mph gusts were on the north coast, though the Mount got very close at 98mph)

With no power (or indeed broadband) on large areas of the Lizard peninsula for 5 days, I suspect some people will be reviewing their decision to go all electric, especially the car!

There did seem a particularly badly hit zone running NNW-SSE from St Ives (111mph gust) to the Mount (98mph gust.) It's the worse zone for tree damage. It may just be that the rather unusual direction (NNW) was to blame, funnelling of the wind through the low lying area from Hayle Saltings to Marazion marsh. 

Or was a sting jet touching down in that area anything to do with it? 

Graham

Penzance

[Ashley haworth-roberts]

Met Office taking their time to issue the (expected by BBC Weather's Stav Danaos at 2 pm) yellow wind warning for Storm Ingrid's gales likely to affect Cornwall on Friday.

These expected gales would be south easterly not north westerly as with the storm force winds from Goretti. Not sure if that makes a difference to the risk of more tree or possible building damage (high tides on the south coast also).

[Ashley haworth-roberts]

What about Wales? :)

On Wednesday, 21 January 2026 at 10:08:00 UTC Graham Easterling wrote:

[Ashley haworth-roberts]

A glancing blow to Cornwall (BBC) from Ingrid or maybe a near miss (Met Office chart for noon Friday)? But I suspect, unless the charts change noticeably, they will have to issue a yellow warning given the recent damage and weakening of structures. Haven't seen a 10 day trend yet today.

[Graham Easterling]

Back to a more traditional big sea event by the look of it. There was no big sea associated with Goretti (fortunately!). It was atrociously rough and dangerous, but the wave height or energy was not really of note.

The next depression is just sat building a big swell, forecast to reach 9m or so, that's 30' in old money. With offshore winds on the north coast will anybody be surfing the Cribbar at Newquay? 

For Praa Sands beach (3 miles from Marazion)

C

Interesting, but rather more normal winter - hopefully.

Graham

Penzance

[Freddie]

Warning is out now.