Storm Doris has arrived!

The lead up to the arrival of storm Doris was another cloudy and damp day yesterday with the modest winds dropping down in the afternoon. The thermometer rose to a maximum of 11.1C just after 2pm and also fell away before stabilising for most of the evening at 10C.
The wind strength began to pick up after midnight with a maximum gust of 39mph at 05.05 this morning. A cold front, associated with Storm Doris, passed over the area for a brief time between 7.00 and 7.15am this morning with very strong wind gusts and torrential rain, which at its peak was falling at a rate of 30mm/hour.
At this point the barometric pressure halted its downward fall, the wind abruptly veered from the south into the west and the thermometer registered a drop of 2C within a quarter of an hour levelling out at 8.1C when readings were taken at 08.00. Combined with the strong winds this gave a wind chill factor in that it felt more like 5C.

Update: Peak wind gust of 42mph at 10.34 this morning. 10 minute average wind speed of 14mph at 13.00. Record February gust was on 14th February 2014 with a maximum of 55mph.

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