Storm Goretti

[David Newton]

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That photo from Facebook sums up what happened to Cornwall last week.

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=15 ... n__=*b2H-R

An exceptionally nasty storm for the local area came in and utterly flattened many things. The island in the background is St Michael's Mount. That lost 80% of its trees blown down in the storm! The Isles of Scilly got it worse than mainland Cornwall. Northern France and the Channel Islands were also badly affected by wind.

[jemhouston]

Derecho?

[Craiglxviii]

Meanwhile we got a bit of wind around the back of the house one night, and I drove home from work in heavy rain.

Talk about highly localised!

[David Newton]

Derecho?

Nope. More like a Nor'Easter. Very nasty winds on its southern side. Substantial snow on its northern side. In between it just rained a lot and there was a tiny amount of snow. Here saw that for example.