By Paul Homewood
https://twitter.com/metoffice/status/1692492075319628258
Following on from the heatwave that never was, the Met Office decided to hype Storm Betty. There was talk of half a month’s rainfall, maybe as much as 80mm:
The reality was much more mundane. Ballypatrick in N Ireland saw the most rain, 36mm, and the extremes in England and Scotland were much less than that:
https://twitter.com/metoffice/status/1693037948667646309
As for winds, they forecast gusts up to 70 mph in exposed places, and 55 mph widely:
https://twitter.com/metoffice/status/1692492075319628258/photo/1
Sure enough, they found a handful of extremely exposed sites. Capel Curig, for instance, sits at an altitude of 216m in the middle of Snowdonia:
https://twitter.com/metoffice/status/1692780913619341821/photo/1
But down in the real world, the winds were a gentle breeze, even on that west coast of Wales, according to the Beaufort Scale:
But Gentle Breeze Betty does not have quite the same ring to it!
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August 20, 2023 at 04:48AM
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