The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #85512   Message #1587078
Posted By: Bunnahabhain
20-Oct-05 - 01:08 PM
Thread Name: BS: WILMA!!!!!!
Subject: RE: BS: WILMA!!!!!!
This building click here
is in a small group of islands that receive sustained winds of well over 100 miles an hour virtually every year. Tell me it's not pretty....
(( Sorry, I can only find tiny little pictures, all thes penny pintching scots refusing to pay for band-width!!!))

The ...radar... would continue to rotate in winds up to 80 miles per hour. In winds exceeding that speed the array would `weather-cock' and thereby survive winds up to 120 mph. However, the radar station holds the unofficial British record for wind speed, which in 1962 was recorded at 177 mph; just before the measuring equipment blew away.