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So why was the maximum Reading gust not in the SJ phase? It is probably because the SJ was only just starting to form. Later on SJ gusts exceeded 40m/s in places, as charts below above show.
Notable for this event, compared to others I have looked at, is the duration of the apparent sting jet period - almost 12 hours it seems, rivalled only by Oct '87 (also about 12 hours). Caveats are need here though, as I am basing all this largely on IR sequence interpretation - ideally we would like to see trajectory analysis in very high resolution runs to complement this.
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