This morning has become very windy here in Edinburgh and at 7am this morning, the wind at Edinburgh Gogarbank was gusting up to 48.6mph from the SW with that continuing to increase over time.
Across the UK, I have noticed that the highest gusts so far according to xcweather are in NW Wales with gusts up to 60mph with that very same location again along with the Western Isles seeing the highest mean wind speed of 43mph.
To me, it would appear as though this particular weather system may well have been a good candidate for being officially named as Storm Ellen (which is the next name on that list) given that the wind appears to be stronger here, than what had been forecast. I have noticed though, that the Met Office are keeping a very close eye on an even deeper low pressure system which is set to arrive by Monday.
The models have been pointing towards that being the case for quite a while and so, I have been expecting that one to the one which is officially given that name (probably by Met Eireann this time, as they are probably a bit overdue now for naming one of these storms), although this hasn't happened yet as far as I know.
EDIT:
This morning's maximum wind gusts at Edinburgh Gogarbank now up to 55.3mph from the SW as at 8am this morning which is almost up to the sort of levels which we saw recently with Storm Ciara and Storm Dennis and these gusts aren't much less than what we saw with those two storms.
Edited by user
21 February 2020 08:40:58
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The north of Edinburgh, usually always missing out on snow events which occur not just within the rest of Scotland or the UK, but also within the rest of Edinburgh.