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The former forecaster said he had also witnessed huge changes in the tools meteorologists use to put forecasts together, which used to be made up of "manual readings from thermometers, wind gauges and rain gauges".

He installed a wind gauge on the roof that would sound an alarm in his bedroom, alerting him whenever the lawn risked being desiccated by a breeze.

On Tuesday afternoon, a gust of 73 mph was clocked on the Golden Gate Bridge, while a wind gauge at San Francisco’s Twin Peaks measured one at 63 mph.

The island’s wind gauge ″blew out at 105, so it could have been higher,″ he said.

Some published reports said the meet’s only wind gauge was turned off for Shinnick’s jump.