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I had a thought, what if Irma was placed directly over the UK centre, which according to various online sources is Whitendale Hanging Rocks, approx. 13 miles east of Morcambe.
With the eye being 100miles or so, from that centre the Lake District and Blackpool would be wiped out, with 175mph winds hitting as far south as Blackburn and east nearly to Leeds, but with the whole hurricane being 400miles wide, 200miles north level with Seahouses, East into the North Sea, West into the Irish Sea and south nearly to Birmingham.
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