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And exactly how do you litigate for the random acts of the weather?
Its autumn, there will be storms, that's what happens. Couldn't believe it was top story on the BBC TV news earlier. Crazy world....
Couldn't believe it was top story on the BBC TV news earlier.
What was the top story everywhere else ?
Ernie, in Damascus they led with the fat bloke still being in "strictly", but this was 2nd on
Have any of you southerners had the froth blown off your latte yet then? I note the BBC reporter has got his NorthFace jacket on, so I'm presuming shit got serious! 😀
The Great Storm of 1987 was much worse than the forecast to-night, just seems that we have lost the ability to cope with any weather events in this country.
When we have a bit of weather like this (is meant to be) I always think of the daughter of a family friend. Today she is a beautiful, talented surgeon. In '87 she was 6 inches from an early bath on this moral coil when the chimney stack toppled on their house, crashed through the roof and landed on a huge heap on the end of her cot. Fortunately the right end! I got a couple of weeks off school because the school's roof was relocated to the rugby pitch so it wasn't all bad news!
Not working tomorrow and with a bit of luck I can break the chainsaw out [s]to liberate a couple of years worth of fire wood[/s] help a few neighbours clear their drives.
Loads of wind in Yorkshire, specially after that Sunday dinner with homemade Yorkshire-Puds.
It's no laughing matter binners
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Meh, our kids went out to build a den and light fires on Sherrifmuir this afternoon - apparently it was 'a tad breezy'.
Well I've just noticed an upended plant pot in the garden, but to be honest I suspect it to be the work of a severely retarded small cat.
Oooh, we can watch it live...
http://www.wunderground.com/wundermap/
At the moment, west coast of Scotland is windier that that south coast...
In Surrey its rainy with no wind.
Has it passed or are we in the eye?
binners - Member
Have any of you southerners
Racist!! 😉
I've just been prepping for damnation and whilst folding down the bistro set I've broken one of the table legs clean off!!
This had better be good else the media/god owe me a new bistro set! 👿
Just looking at picture of our "hurricane" on the BBC. A few trees blown over OK makes it look relatively serious. The other pictures are of people on either a beach or harbor wall. The beach is probably safer but the people on the harbor wall seriously should be locked up. One of them gets swept over and we send out rescue crews who may or may not coe back to to someones utter stupidity. I guess that happens every year when its a bit blustery but FFS they should get locked up for their own safety and the safety of others who may be needed in an emergency not of their own making.
Doesn't this happen every year? Its when you go Hoover up the last conkers
Hardly a breeze in Manc
I went for a MTB ride the Sunday after the storm in 87
At one point we climbed with bikes over fallen trees 8 feet above the ground. We were the only traffic on some of the minor roads, being impassable from fallen trees.
We did wear dayglo though so it wasn't all bad
Wirral, bright sunshine, a bit of wind, high tides, breaking over the prom washing away all the dog pooh,lots of older people suitting in cars reading the papers with the engine running.
Tonight its just dark and dry.
It's all started here, next door's garden has been hard hit:
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sunny out, mind - you must be a long way south !
Theyve now canceled all of the trains of greater anglia and first capital connect till 09.00 hrs.
So an easy day for a lot of southern workers,clearing out branches from their swimming pools, while us oop north carry on and DONT PANIC.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-24696403
Newhaven life boat plus coast guard helicopter looking for 14 year old missing off Newhaven this afternoon. We were there about 20 minutes earlier.
Just put the recycling out, less than 10 miles from Project & its almost like a summer evening.
OK so its darker but mild and not a breath of wind!
Was a bit blowy at lunch time but the washing dried quick as a result 🙂
Grim up north my arse 😀
Very sad about the lad off Newhaven 🙁
Both severn crossings closed over night, so a nice journey via Gloucester then.
Just driven up the A3 in "a bit of drizzle" 🙄
I think some people might be struggling with the meanings of "forecast", "warning", and "the early hours of monday morning".
eerily calm here near Afan
Not much wind now but it's started raining. In the sarrrrrf east of the south east.
Southampton calling....
We have just had a little soot blown down the chimney and it is raining.
Not dead yet though.
Wwaswas I'm afraid it hasn't ended well. It was my daughter that called the coastguard. She knew the boy, he was a friend of a friend. She's back home now trying to deal with having seen him drown in front of her.
@bikebouy - where you out today ?
Dire wether in Paris at 7am, biblical rain at Eurotunnel at 11, windy drive to Surrey and earily quiet now.
We need to get onto a few websites for offshore weather bouys, never mind the "forecasts" that way you can see what's coming
This site has live data and forecasting - so far doesn't look so bad [url= http://www.xcweather.co.uk/ ]xc weather[/url]
Wwaswas I'm afraid it hasn't ended well. It was my daughter that called the coastguard. She knew the boy, he was a friend of a friend. She's back home now trying to deal with having seen him drown in front of her.
🙁
J, yes in Chi Harbour on Eastoke Point, 4mtr and 75ltr, 3.4-4mtr swell just off the point, bumpy on the inside with the tide on the ebb but good for jumping, some decent hight gained which was the first time this year we've had a stinker ebb with a solid SWly, niiiice.
Managed a couple of solid hours but gave up as my arms had had it 😆
@bikebouy - excellent (I checked bramblemet and it was a solid 30 with gusts to 45 today)
Note much at Sevenstones (off lands end) just yet But pressure falling rapidly - hold on - [url= http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/marine/observations/Seven_Stones_table.html ]Link[/url]
I'm assuming a 7 meter wave is unusual. It sure sounds big.
7 mtr swells are a bit big for me too.. I've seen some mates happy in big lumps but they scare me, I'm always wondering where the escape route is rather than try to enjoy the ride 😳 but then better safe than sorry, gotta enjoy your time here eh.
As to the post above, that's very sad news indeed. I do hope she stays well and takes care of herself. 😥
Been ever so slightly windy in Cambridge today, but seems to have died right down now. I'm guessing we're in the eye of the Hurricane and it will all kick off again later with a stiff breeze and the odd crisp packet being blown about.
just flew in from Ireland to Heathrow - plane up and down like a yo-yo.
Very sad indeed about the young lad...
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90 mph gusts reported just on iow. Not a breeze here in deepest Derbyshire!
Spoke to my parents in Surrey earlier. Two pieces of bread had blown off the bird table leaving only a couple of pieces. They had grave concerns that any would be left on the table by morning.
In Chatham, Kent. Just about to ride to work and it looks pretty windy out. Looks like a head wind too. Damn.
My tiles are thumping up and down and although I can't see any on the floor, there are bound to be some that are in the gutters.
However I can see the harbour wall across town where that 14yr old was swept away last night, so in perspective, its nothing.
The wind appears to have reached its choppy, flappy, gusty sustained peak here for the moment. MetO concerned about a possible sting in the tail of severe NW gusts at the back of the atorm. My roof timbers are creaking like a galleon at sea.
Where are you? I just peeked out the door, lets just say I won't be cycling across town, don't think I'll walk either. Lift please! I dread daylight and seeing the mess my roof is in...
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Averaging over 100mph here...
127mph. 112 consistently.
Drizzle and slight breeze in Cannock...
Quite a number of planes on final approach into heathrow doing interesting aerobatics before engaging full power and climbing out. Actually it's starting to look like they've shut heathrow.
It's definitely choppy out there.
Just got very windy in the last 15 minutes or so at Heathrow.
Glad I'm not flying anywhere, looks like it's gonna be a bit rough!
Friggin breezy here (Surrey), lost a few tiles and a tree has come down blocking the road. Just wondering if now is the time to sign up to strava and set a few koms on the way to work...
Worst seems to have past newbury.
Yup west London's taking a bit of a battering right now, shame as we are loosing slates from the old outhouse roof
Sad news about the Lad getting swept out to sea. 🙁
Rather blowy on the platform just now (chilterns) - the bloke who stands next to me every morning had his packed rucksack blow down the platform! One positive though - we have stood next to each other for four years and today was the first time we spoke. In fact probably the first person i have spoken to on the way to work in years. Might consider nodding to him now. Storm in breaking the ice shocker!
Train seems determined to crawl though.
Think it's all gone from here now (Somerset), finished around 5:30ish.
Just a bit of rain and wind we're reasonably well sheltered so nothing worse than a few knocked over wheelie bins here. No doubt there's a rotten tree or two down though.
Hmm, 40mph gusts for my ride to work!
Of the two Thames crossings in Reading, one is closed. Cue travel chaos for those of us due to take cats to the vets at 10.
very little impact from what I can see here in Malvernshire, but we get quite a bit of protection from the hills most of the time anyway.
FGW trains say that there's been a lot less disruption than they were expecting, so Im guessing things will be moderately "Normal" by tonight.
Hi all, anyone on from fleet/ farnborough in Hampshire?
I'm overseas at the moment so interested to know how bad the area was hit.
Any update would be appreciated
Thanks
By all accounts it was windy in Somerset last, I didn't hear a thing
Right I've got cycle in soon , should be interesting
Still sunny in sunny Brentwoood but both Essex train lines into town are suspended.
Lucky for me I'm on hols this week.... Although, which clever clogs put the clock back the weekend before half term..... the kids were up at 6 again this morn
very little impact from what I can see here in Malvernshire, but we get quite a bit of protection from the hills most of the time anyway.
Nothing to do with protection from the hills - it didn't come here
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/observations/pershore-worcestershire#?tab=last24hours&fcTime=1382828400
Took a while to get in - added 15 mins to my 45 min commute. Not as bad as I thought it was going to be to be honest.
You lot must have been forsaken then? they've already filled the Ark and set off for the promise land, Barnsley.
Fleet / Farnborough - (I'm in Guildford so this is off eagle radio)
Trees down on several major routes, incl a31, a320, Reading road in fleet, also flooding in Aldershot, on a31, etc. and power out in several places too. Its still blowing now so may be more yet but skies are clearer so I think it's 'passed' in the main.
Then old oak at the end of my garden's still upright, so all seems mainly well here, but it can be very variable by the sounds of things.
[quote=on and on said]Hi all, anyone on from fleet/ farnborough in Hampshire?
I'm overseas at the moment so interested to know how bad the area was hit.
Any update would be appreciated
Thanks
I'm in Farnborough now. Sun poking out from behind the clouds. Wind calming down, lots of debris on the roads but all seems fine. The A331 was very quiet although near Farnborough (coming from Aldershot direction) a few trees were encroaching on the left hand lane so I can see that slowing things down @ rush hour.
Thank you, greatly appreciated.
All the best
Our fence is now in bits scattered around ours and the neighbours gardens. Not ideal. We're Surrey/Sussex border, still bloody windy here.
Calming down in Surrey but amazing wind and noise between 3-5am. Just off to inspect any damage (fingers crossed). No need to pick the remaining apples off the tree!!!
I feel sure I should know who allthepies is but I'm not sure. AW?
avdave2 - not sure what to say, really.
There were quite a lot of people down there watching the waves and taking pictures when we there and the sea was very rough. It does sound like it was an ill advised game gone tragically wrong from reports I've read. It is exhilarating being close to the sea on days like that sometimes the risk isn't perceived, though.
I took this on my phone just after 2 and it was getting rougher as time went on (I'm at the top of a 20ft shingle bank);
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I hope your daughter is able to come to terms with what she saw and experienced yesterday - it can't have been an easy night for you. My thoughts are with the boys family and with yours.
South Hertfordshire here: BIG wind around 6.30 - had to re-peg the awning - I think it's passed on its way to the North Sea. I'm off to work.
Was out with the dogs earlier, funny to see their reactions.
Sad about the boy washed into the sea in Sussex 🙁
How terrible for his family, and how terrible for the rescue services to have to abandon the search last night. I can't imagine how awful it must be to know someone is out there, and to be told to stop searching. All very sad.
All OK coming in from Bath to Bridgewater, a few leaves and the occasional branch, but really nothing. Looks like it's skipped up the coast a bit more before really hitting the land.
Sad to hear about the boy in Newhaven.
Closer to home The A2 is shut between the M25 all the way to London due to 'numerous fallen trees'.
Quite a pleasant, sunny, if slightly blustery still, morning here in the New Forest.
However I've been up half the night because of the wind noise (we're surrounded by very tall trees). It was howling! First inspection of the garden appeared normal, wasn't until I got in the car that the destruction became apparent.
Large branch hanging dangerously (about 10m long) over the road opposite, another hanging over neighbour-but-one's garden. Road disappeared under leaf debris and small branches. Turned into the road at the end of our close to find trees down both ways!
One huge one will take a bit of clearing, the other had smashed as it hit the ground so managed to pull a bit out of the way and navigate round.
Wish I had a wood burner now!
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My drive to work took an hour and a half. This was on my lane, I'd made slow progress clearing branches until I got to this, at which point I gave up and went the long way. Anyone coming from Haselmere/Goldalming is in for a long drive.
Poor bloke in a taxi had a tree land on him, looked pretty nasty
Time to wheel out the lost productivity and insurance losses calculator now that the jewel in the crown of our shining national economy is covered in leaves and twigs. Come the six o'clock news tonight I estimate it at £865,478,964.12 so not far off that associated with this forum.