Dear Authors,

Many thanks for submitting a revised manuscript (and many thanks to the reviewers for their timely, fair and comprehensive reviews!). You can see that the reviewers are generally satisfied by how you acted on their comments. There are only a few minor comments left and, once they are addressed, I'll be happy to recommend the manuscript for acceptance without an additional round of reviews. The only non-straightforward comment is, in my view, the one on Figure 8. My suggestion would be, if you haven't verified that the distribution is normal, to just plot wind speed anomalies and use stippling to highlight significant anomalies, as also suggested by Reviewer 2.

Many thanks for all your work in preparing this nice article and congratulations for getting to this stage!

Dear Authors,

Many thanks for addressing the comments from the reviewers.

I am happy for this manuscript to be published, following the two technical corrections listed below:

- Fig.5, caption: replace " (shaded (white is 0), mm/72h)" with " (shaded, white is 0, mm/72h)"
- Fig.8: please improve the visibility of the stippling (for example by using a different colour)


Best wishes
Ambrogio