Storm Gerrit

From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

By Paul Homewood

It’s little wonder kids are having mental problems because of the climate change scare, with outrageously false reporting like this:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12906853/Astonishing-moment-Storm-Gerrit-tears-wind-turbine-apart-85mph-gales-barreled-Britain.html

The 85mph claims were based on a single wind gust measured in Kincardineshire, in NE Scotland. The Met Office have not said exactly where, but it will inevitably be either an exposed coastal cliff top, or a high altitude site:

All of the other sites listed are unrepresentative exposed locations. There is no evidence of anything like these wind speeds away from exposed coasts.

The wind turbine destroyed was in Ayrshire, but we don’t know where. However, at Girvan, a typical coastal site in the county, average wind speeds reached only 27mph yesterday, when the wind turbine blew apart, probably indicative of 45 to 50mph gusts.  This is not an unusually strong wind by any means, though of course the wind turbine could have been on top of a hill.

What is also noticeable if you watch the video, is that the trees are barely moving, something they certainly would have in a real gale.

https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/@2648626/historic

I am reminded that in the days before they started giving them silly names, gales were merely referred to as Westerlies!.