[Closed] Storm A Brewing Down South

Great, I was taking Jnr on his first ever MTB run on Monday.

[url= http://uk.news.yahoo.com/weather-storm-alerts-uk-set-hurricane-101435079.html#bcC4NqL ]Hurricane[/url]

Oh here we go 😆 -media jumping on that bandwagon then!

Getting rather windy here in South Wales.

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They've been talking about this a bit recently. No doubt the train companies will be delighted to use it as an excuse to run no service for a few weeks - getting to work and back will be hell next week grrrr grrrr grrrrrr

Sunday looks fun 🙂

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If you want any West to East KOMs, that's the day!

If you want any West to East KOMs, that's the day!

I like your thinking 😀

I've a got a couple lined up. Might be slightly late for work 😀

Monday morning is likely to be the most doomtastic.

Just driven back from Chester, (thats up north) and a massive storm, lots of flooded roads, and headless drivers driving like its the end of the world,

Chester, (thats up north) and a massive storm

Big hail and all sorts apparently!

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I got an email from my insurance co...

Helping you keep your home safe
Handy hints to prepare for wet weather
Dear Mr 2unfit

Weather forecasters have issued flood warnings over the coming days. So, as a precaution for everyone, we've put together some tips and advice to help keep homes safe in the stormy weather.

We're hoping very few areas will be seriously affected - but it's a good idea to make a few preparations just in case. You can visit the Environment Agency website to find out if there are flood warnings near you.

Put together an emergency kit in case you're stuck in your home - you could include waterproof clothes, non-perishable food, bottled water and any medication that you take
Have a battery-powered radio for local alerts
Keep your mobile phone fully charged - and make sure you have useful numbers that you may need, like AXA's home insurance claim line:
0844 874 0218*
It's always a good idea to keep important documents, including insurance policies, upstairs in your home or at a high level, preferably in a waterproof container
Make sure you know how to shut-off gas, electricity, oil-fired heating and water, even in the dark
Sand bags, flood sacks, door guards and air brick covers can also stop or slow water getting into your home. A good DIY store should stock these items.
Please make sure your home is well maintained to prevent leaks as damage due to wear and tear may not be covered

Turn off your water, gas and electricity
Unplug all electrical items - store smaller items somewhere high or upstairs
Put plugs into sinks and weigh them down with something heavy
Move personal possessions, valuables and any light furniture upstairs
Leave internal doors open
If there is no time to take down curtains, hang them over the rail so they are kept above the flood water

At AXA we know that little things mean a lot when you're looking after your home - and these tips could make a big difference.

We hope that nobody needs to worry about flooding. Rest assured, we'll be here to help.

Yours sincerely,

AXA Insurance

*Lines are open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Call costs may vary depending on your service provider.

To unsubscribe log into your AXA Account and go to your customer log in details near the top of the page. Click the 'change' option next to your email address. The option to unsubscribe is in the marketing preference section at the bottom of the page. Just click on 'change your contact preferences'.

AXA general insurance policies are underwritten by AXA Insurance UK Plc which is registered in England and Wales registered number 078950 and authorised by the Prudential Regulation Authority and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and the Prudential Regulation Authority under Financial Services Register number 202312. Registered address is 5 Old Broad Street, London EC2N 1AD.

I'm suitably scared, 😉

I got one too. I'm waiting to find out on Tuesday that not doing every the email said has automatically invalidated my policy...

Weather man hype, it always is.

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Weather man hype, it always is.

[url= http://www.express.co.uk/news/nature/439035/MEGASTORM-Devastating-100mph-winds-to-bring-48-hours-of-utter-hell-THIS-weekend ]Daily Excess is at it too[/url]

It is however coming in on the jetstream straight from the Gulf of Mexico, so it will be a naughty one 😈

Might ride from Bath to Nottingham to see my brother shouldnt take long

Only 60mph wind? Oh come on, [url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Bawbag ]can't we have a proper storm?[/url]...
It was fun...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/matt_outandabout/6686362953/
😀 😆 😯 😕

Pfft! You big southern pansies! We'll be on our usual balmy northern Monday pub ride, as always looking out for falling coconuts

I predict a low turnout at work on Monday. Twigs in the road etc.

Haven't we done this thread twice already this week?

scotroutes - Member

Haven't we done this thread twice already this week?

Are you bored already? I know your omnipresent on here for now, but this is how we roll... 🙄
Not everyone gets to see each thread, some of us have [s]lives[/s] a sort of existence outside of STW.

😉

😆

I'm just surprised the Mods haven't closed this one down in their current drive to avoid too many threads (or something)

Anyroadup, some of us had work this afternoon 😈

Arse.
Driving down to Dorset for a few days on Monday.
May swap going down in the Camper for the Syncro. (no fellatio jokes please!)
😀

They said it was going to be poring of rain in London for today, yesterday
and it was nice and warm today.
So until it happens I fail to see why the worry !

What ever happened to putting yourself outside and seeing for yourself

Bothy trip planned to Mid Wales this weekend. That will be fun 🙂

God I hope they are wrong - in laws should be heading home to Sussex early Monday morning....

What ever happened to putting yourself outside and seeing for yourself

I dunno about you but my front door only opens on today, not two days' time.

Just copied this from WeatherPro:
“[b]End of October storms of the past and future[/b]
24.10.2013 16:57

On Monday there is potential for a deep low pressure to move eastwards across England and this could bring stormy conditions to the south of Britain. A few days out there is a lot of uncertainty – if the low tracks further south the strongest winds will be over the Channel or northern France, a little further north and more of the UK could experience the windy weather. Yet the low hasn’t even developed yet. A series of elements need to come together to cause this low pressure to develop and deepen. One element is already there, a strong jet stream pointing at the UK stretching across the Atlantic hence our recent unsettled weather. Current timings bring the low pressure through during daylight hours and there is the potential for disruption to transport and energy networks.

Low pressures bringing unsettled weather are typical for autumn, especially the end of the October. Some notable storms for the end of October are as follows.

The Royal Charter Storm occurred on the 25th and 26th October 1859. The storm takes its name from the steam clipper which was coming to the end of a long trip from Australia and heading for Liverpool. As the ship rounded Anglesey the Force 12 winds drove the ship onto the rocks and it was wrecked with 450 lives lost. The storm came into the south-west approaches and then moved northwards through the Irish Sea.

On the 27th October 2002 a storm which was the remnants of Hurricane Jeannette came in off the Atlantic and crossed eastwards across Ireland and northern England. The strongest winds occurred over the southern half of Britain with a 96mph gust reported at the Mumbles in south Wales. A gust of 102 mph was reported at the very exposed site of the Needles lighthouse on the Isle of Wight. Some recording stations in East Anglia also experienced their highest gusts since the Burns day storm of 25th January 1990.

The 28th October 1989 brought another intense low pressure in from the Atlantic – this storm brought a gust of 108 knots (124mph) to Rhoose in the Vale of Glamorgan. This is the highest gust ever recorded at a low level site in England and Wales.

With the count down to the end of the October on the way and low pressures likely to dominate the weather; it’s definitely a week to keep an eye on the weather forecasts.”

That chart doesn't look as bad as 1987. That blew the roof off my house...

thought this was going to be another toilet related thread...

Here's the Atlanic, about 3 hrs ago:

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Maxtorque, no problem with flushing the outside toilets then.

Those containers are the toilets arent they.

Here's the Atlanic, about 3 hrs ago:

Is that anywhere near the Atlantic?

Did a run through Biscay once in a F12. Big enough ship to handle it but got a bit wild for a while.

Here's the Atlanic, about 3 hrs ago

Blimey, where's George Clooney? That pic reminds me of that film.

Will be tying a kite to my bike this weekend...no trees should get in the way considering they'll have all blown down.

Met office says 36mph on Sunday night here in London.

I'm shitting myself....

That'll be the average wind speed. Gusts will reach higher speeds. The threshold for damage to buildings is 47mph and up. Depending on which part of London you live in you should be spared the worst of it as London is both inland, and the mass of buildings will attenuate the force of the wind.

Will this storm be as severe as forecast? We won't know until it hits. Living on the central south coast I'm sure I'll find out.,. I'm prepped and waiting with both anticipation and trepidation.

Red warning issued this morning, not often one of those gets issued. 80mph+ winds.
Maybe this will be a dodgy one after all !

Yeah, slightly more concerned here in the SW on an exposed bit of coast than you daft soft London chaps..

Young kids on the house, 25 year old wood framed double glazing, scheduled for replacement this year/early next year..

It's our first storm in this house too so it's a bit of an unknown quantity
There's the sound of frantic hammering coming from the neighbours on both sides this morning, I wonder if they know something that I don't..

we're in for some proper floods and gusts down here, up on Exmoor

Maybe this will be a dodgy one after all !

Not just a storm, but a Killer Megastorm!

With CGI sharks in it as well?

There's the sound of frantic hammering coming from the neighbours on both sides this morning, I wonder if they know something that I don't..

If the end of the world is nigh, that's probably what most people want to be doing 🙂

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Is it me or does this photo actually look like quite a decent day, processed heavily to make it look all stormy and moody?

No it doesn't look like a particularly decent day to me, it looks like a very cloudy day.

It might represent quite a decent day up North though.

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So you don't think it has been processed to make it look stormy? Look harder.

Yeah, slightly more concerned here in the SW

I've just built a shed for all my bikes and fishing gear, think I'll be bringing everything into the house for this one. Still it's a good test for the shed!

Nice photo Mikey!

I should add that that photo is taken from the Daily Star website, demonstrating what a killer megastorm would look like, with the caption: "CARNAGE: Heavy rain and battering winds will hit the UK on Monday [GETTY]"

demonstrating what a killer megastorm would look like

Looks more like a classic renaissance painting to me in which the Hand of God appears through the clouds and lovingly blesses London.

London needs all the blessings it can get.

Killer megastorm? Oh no 😥 Probably be a deathswarm of False widow spiders blown in from the er azores as well 😯

First wave of rain hitting us now - only half way throug what I hoped was the last grass cut of the year which is annoying. Tying everything down and ready to enter the bunker!!!

THM pictured earlier:

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Killer megastorm? Oh no Probably be a deathswarm of False widow spiders blown in from the er azores as well

[Daily Mail mode on] "Megastorm showers country with immigrants" [Daily Mail mode off]

yunki - Member
Yeah, slightly more concerned here in the SW on an exposed bit of coast than you daft soft London chaps..

Young kids on the house, 25 year old wood framed double glazing, scheduled for replacement this year/early next year.

A bit inconsiderate of you as far as housing your kids was concerned then, wasn't it.

😆 you've got to laugh at the daily fail/excess/etc - they have such overactive imaginations.

[Daily Mail mode on] "Megastorm showers country with immigrants" [Daily Mail mode off]

A bit inconsiderate of you as far as housing your kids was concerned then, wasn't it.

that's true.. bit If I'd housed the buggers in some palatial manse in the tranquil and weatherproof suburbs of our cotton wool capital, they may have grown up to be city boys, and as such wouldn't be welcome round for their Sunday tea..

I'm thinking long-term see..

80 mile an hour winds in southern England you say...

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Meanwhile in Scotland

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True story

Ninfan 😉 not far away. Actually good excuse to tidy up the garden for the winter anyway!! Still more fun watching RL than cutting grass.

Next job change the tires on the Bike!!!

I think the picture of Westminster in ruins and dried up Thames is pretty cool.

What is the disaster that is supposed to do that to London? An earthquake?

And those Protect and Survive illustrations bring back some memories.

scottish wind

How funny, the BBC have now named the storm as St Jude after the 'patron saint of depression'.
Seriously??
It's on the BBC news website.

What's the latest on the apocalyptic murderstorm of death then?

Up here, it's probably got to "a bit blustery" although I may upgrade that to "better put a coat on" later in the day.

Well, down here at Ground Zero I've yet to see anything that's made me think twice about taking the kids down the beach in the trailer after lunch..

How funny, the BBC have now named the storm as St Jude after the 'patron saint of depression'.
Seriously??
It's on the BBC news website.

Where does it say "the BBC has named the storm...."? The way I read it, it is the Met Office who has named it.

Very windy down south but sunny. Dog walk first then need to finish grass before the storm!!!! I bet the tree surgeons are starting to rub their hands with an autumn bonus on the cards,!

no chance of mega storm up on the pennines.. drizzle and enough of a breeze to rustle your cordourys.. probably no worse on south coast with the exception that tutus are the norm

It's the usual all-pervasive greyness, with the compulsory drizzle from September through til April oop north. No windier than usual (still pretty windy)

Quite looking forward to watching all the vox pops on the news later of terrified Londoners recounting their tales of how they fearlessly stared into the face of certain death, and braved the MEGASTORM as they'd run out of Olives and had to nip to Waitrose 😆

Lovely day in Devon at the moment...

Lovely sunny view out of office in Leeds, all alone 🙁 .

Quite windy though, the birch are getting a bit bendy.

EDIT: Spoke too soon; sun's gone.

Good day for windsurfing, see yous laters 😆

I woke up this morning to see the contents of my former garage piled up in the garden, and just a concrete slab where my garage used to be.

That sucks 🙁 Where was the car?!

Out the front.

It's not the end of the world, just reminded me that I must ring the garage man tomorrow and ask him when he's coming as I've had the new slab down for a couple of weeks now 🙂

Bikebouy - ditto
Em and me off to Daymer in a mo. Should be fun.

My local Waitrose was heaving with the middle-classes preparing for a siege this morning. 😯

Edit: there was actually a queue to get in the car park!