{"id":2171,"date":"2014-10-24T17:18:49","date_gmt":"2014-10-24T17:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/?p=2171"},"modified":"2014-10-24T17:41:43","modified_gmt":"2014-10-24T17:41:43","slug":"looking-back-on-gonzalo-and-the-uks-top-wind-speeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/looking-back-on-gonzalo-and-the-uks-top-wind-speeds\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking back on Gonzalo and the UK\u2019s top wind speeds"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many parts of the UK<\/a> saw strong winds at the start of the week as remnants of ex-tropical storm Gonzalo passed over the north of the country.<\/p>\n

Top ten strongest gusts of wind recorded (on 21 October) by the Met Office:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Time<\/strong><\/td>\nStation<\/strong><\/td>\nArea<\/strong><\/td>\nElevation<\/strong><\/td>\nMax gust (MPH)<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
0600AM<\/td>\nWIGHT: NEEDLES OLD BATTERY<\/td>\nISLE OF WIGHT<\/td>\n80<\/td>\n70<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
0300AM<\/td>\nABERDARON<\/td>\nGWYNEDD<\/td>\n95<\/td>\n70<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1000AM<\/td>\nST BEES HEAD<\/td>\nCUMBRIA<\/td>\n124<\/td>\n69<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
0400AM<\/td>\nMUMBLES HEAD<\/td>\nWEST GLAMORGAN<\/td>\n43<\/td>\n67<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1000AM<\/td>\nISLAY: PORT ELLEN<\/td>\nARGYLL<\/td>\n17<\/td>\n66<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
0300AM<\/td>\nCAPEL CURIG<\/td>\nGWYNEDD<\/td>\n216<\/td>\n66<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1000AM<\/td>\nEMLEY MOOR<\/td>\nWEST YORKS<\/td>\n267<\/td>\n66<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
0400AM<\/td>\nLAKE VYRNWY<\/td>\nPOWYS<\/td>\n360<\/td>\n63<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
0600AM<\/td>\nSALSBURGH<\/td>\nLANARKSHIRE<\/td>\n277<\/td>\n63<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
0400AM<\/td>\nMACHRIHANISH<\/td>\nARGYLL<\/td>\n10<\/td>\n62<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Rainfall<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ex-Gonzalo also brought a band of heavy rain across the UK, bringing some notable rainfall totals in places.<\/p>\n

The table below shows the top ten UK rainfall totals recorded between 1am and 8am on the morning of the 21st<\/sup> October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Station<\/strong><\/td>\nArea<\/strong><\/td>\nTotal (mm)<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
CLUANIE INN NO 3<\/td>\nROSS & CROMARTY<\/td>\n38.0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
CAPEL CURIG NO 3<\/td>\nGWYNEDD<\/td>\n34.4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
ACHNAGART<\/td>\nROSS & CROMARTY<\/td>\n30.6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
TYNDRUM NO 3<\/td>\nPERTHSHIRE<\/td>\n27.6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
KINLOCHEWE<\/td>\nROSS & CROMARTY<\/td>\n25.8<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
RESALLACH<\/td>\nSUTHERLAND<\/td>\n23.4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
SHAP<\/td>\nCUMBRIA<\/td>\n21.8<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
LOCH GLASCARNOCH<\/td>\nROSS & CROMARTY<\/td>\n21.8<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MORECAMBE NO 2<\/td>\nLANCASHIRE<\/td>\n20.2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
LEVENS HALL<\/td>\nCUMBRIA<\/td>\n20.0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

\u00a9 Met Office<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many parts of the UK saw strong winds at the start of the week as remnants of ex-tropical storm Gonzalo passed over the north of the country. Top ten strongest gusts of wind recorded (on 21 October) by the Met Office: Time Station Area Elevation Max gust (MPH) 0600AM WIGHT: NEEDLES OLD BATTERY ISLE OF […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"post_views_count":1165,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[169],"class_list":["post-2171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weather","tag-resort-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2171"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2173,"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2171\/revisions\/2173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}