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Well, in yet another case of awesome timing for my trips to Scotland, I'm scheduled to fly into Aberdeen with my two kids at 18:00 tomorrow evening and then get a train down to Glasgow.
I'm kind of hoping the flight gets cancelled as I suspect there is more likely to be rail disruption than flight disruption. Then I'm stuck trying to find accommodation for me and the kids somewhere between Aberdeen and Glasgow.
Wish me luck!
Blowing a hooley in Kerry
fly into Aberdeen with my two kids at 18:00 tomorrow evening and then get a train down to Glasgow.
Maybe the plane will be diverted to land at Glasgow saving you the trouble of the train trip?! 😉
Indeed we have a long weekend in the camper with some friends - looking like a book and pub weekend...
One of the campsites in West Wales we visit a few times a year has cancelled its end of season party. It's well known for being exposed but they have had to take down a large industrial event gazebo due to 70 mph winds forecast.
We're going to the Lakes this weekend. It'll have to be low-level walking given the forecast, the bike can stay here.
It's now an amber warning in NW Highlands and Hebrides. It's going to be very windy up there but they are a lot more used to it.
Saw earlier that the Gravelfoyle 10 event has been cancelled this weekend - probably wise given likely conditions
Blowing a hooley in Kerry
Yes, lashing down in Dromid as I type. We are doing the Sneem walking festival this week, not optimistic that'll happen
Nothing in Stirling area, but it is looking like it is going to tip it down!
Absolutely chucking it down in Mallaig area from 11ish.
We are having a party on Saturday night for my wifes 50th. Its all arranged to be outside!!...
We're in Leeds so shouldn't be as bad as further north but still screwing our plans up. We'll manage, but could do with it not blowing a gale and pissing down....
Booked a long weekend to get up some hills. Was hoping to camp Fri, Sat and Sun....nevermind, suppose I'll go to the pub instead.
We're in Leeds so shouldn't be as bad as further north but still screwing our plans up. We'll manage, but could do with it not blowing a gale and pissing down....
I don't want to be funny about this, but you know it's October in Leeds? Or are we talking about somewhere called Leeds in the Cote D'Azur? 🤣
We are having a party on Saturday night for my wifes 50th. Its all arranged to be outside!!...
We're in Leeds so shouldn't be as bad as further north but still screwing our plans up.
You've arranged a party outside - in October - in Leeds!!!!?? 😱 😱
I'm sat in the garden drinking a cup of tea in North west leeds (Yeadon) it's not sunny but it's pleasantly warm
Newsflash - the storm isn't here yet.
Daughters first full weekend at uni and she has booked on a day trip to Windermere for freshers. As she herself has just said "I know how shit it is in the rain, I may not bother"
Couple of work colleagues are walking the WHW. I will be interested to hear their plans
In a not extreme or dangerous in any way situation - I've got my last bowls match of the season tomorrow night in Derby - should be fun! 🤣
Newsflash - the storm isn't here yet.
are you sick of these incessant storm updates?
In a not extreme or dangerous in any way situation - I've got my last bowls match of the season tomorrow night in Derby - should be fun! 🤣
Depends which bit of Derby, to be fair
I've booked a weekend in a cabin with my wife for our wedding anniversary. Kids at home with my mum. 1st weekend away together without them since oldest was born.
Cabin is Brecons-ish. We've booked BPW for us both tomorrow/Friday - her first time riding there - exciting! 🤣
Wouldn't be devastated if it was closed/vouchered, but I don't know if it's going to bad enough until after 4pm.
Had someone (non-islander) tell me today it shouldn’t be a problem “It’ll just blow through” - forecasting 70mph+ winds for tomorrow, but he seemed to think weather is some sort of conspiracy. Ferries to/from Oban cancelled from lunchtime tomorrow and probably all day Saturday.
Cub camp this weekend cancelled, gutted as leader availability means we can reschedule this side of Xmas!
The first wave of rain before the main course is just arriving now.
That should come through overnight, then there'll be a period of suspicious calm before the main dose of heavy rain arrives sometime on Friday lunchtime.
Just looking for alternative plans to the Skye trip, definitely somewhere east of there and almost certainly a bothy rather than a tent!
The rain eased up here about an hour ago, finished off with an almighty downpour though. Safe to leave the house now though 
I've booked a weekend in a cabin with my wife for our wedding anniversary. Kids at home with my mum. 1st weekend away together without them since oldest was born.
The cabin could indeed be rockin'. Wind obvs.
Reasonably windy already tonight but nothing out the ordinary. Supposed to ramp up overnight with the yellow warning kicking in at 12noon (rain) and 3pm (wind) where we are. Eldest supposed to be doing outdoors stuff in the Ochils after school tomorrow, I suspect that might be called off...
The ROC Triathlon in the Highlands (Kinlochleven) cancelled earlier today. The run course goes up onto the top of Ben Nevis and back. Would have been a disaster if its half as windy as predicted.
Well, in yet another case of awesome timing for my trips to Scotland, I'm scheduled to fly into Aberdeen with my two kids at 18:00 tomorrow evening and then get a train down to Glasgow.
I'm kind of hoping the flight gets cancelled as I suspect there is more likely to be rail disruption than flight disruption. Then I'm stuck trying to find accommodation for me and the kids somewhere between Aberdeen and Glasgow.
Wish me luck!
scotrail advertising several services cancelled from tomorrow evening (not the aberdeen/glasgow route), but speed restrictions will be in place on all routes
Yep, even if the plane goes there's no way I'm getting to Glasgow tonight. On the bright side there seems to be a fair number of hotel rooms available but no point in booking anything until I'm on the tarmac in Aberdeen.
At least it's too windy for drones...
Latest forecast shows the strongest winds coming through early evening. Head west and the gusts are predicted at nearly 90mph, which are the kinds of winds that tear roofs off. Hoping we don’t get a power cut.
Meant to be travelling to Dyfi this evening for tomorrow and Sunday. I am wondering if the place will even be open tomorrow and whether its worth the 7 hour-ish round trip to get there and back for the weekend even if it is open!
I should have been on the motorway on my way to Aberfoyle to work at Gravelfoyle 10 but it has indeed been cancelled. It's a wet and windy weekend in Northampton for me instead. Gutted.
Mountain biking weekend in the lakes for me, already cancelled today's ride ☹️
On the plus side, my group are staying in a pub 😁
@Kilo that really is a baby Guinness or Ireland's largest Aperol Spritz 🤣
Large aperol!
Storm Amy is battering the Kerry coast at present, very high winds here now.
Worth firing up the YouTube channel for your local airport and watching some of the decidedly dicey landings going on now.
It's surprising how much an A380 can get blown around the place. They can also generate their own personal cloud from the amount of spray thrown up when they put on the reverse thrust!
We’re right in the middle of it now, wind speeds in excess of 60mph and the whole house is shaking - another hour of this before it starts to abate. We’ve also got a 1.5m storm surge on top of a high tide - if we’d had a spring tide of a metre higher the flood protection barriers installed last year might not have been enough. Hopefully the power will stay on. There’s going to be a lot of trees down most are still in leaf and the ground is saturated.
Perhaps unsurprisingly we're sitting at home rather than on a plane.
Sadly my parents will have to wait a bit longer to see their grandkids for the first time in almost two years 🙁
the whole house is shaking
That's pretty frightening, we had something similar earlier this year, a wind so strong it absolutely roared, fortunately our roof remained intact. Hope all's well.
The house is timber framed with a steel portal and is designed to withstand the wind and weather in these parts - our lounge is Right under the roof so it feels and sounds a lot worse.
The lifeboat is out on a shout due to a yacht slipping it’s anchor - know some of the folks out there so hoping they’re not out there too long.
Power out in a few place and lots of trees down.
Bedroom soaking wet after the wind forced water up through the trickle vents into the room. Never seen that happen before.
Crab apple blown over in the garden (NW Derbyshire). Not much in the big scheme of things but it was a lovely small tree.
8pm. West coast of Skye is the most windy place on the planet by some margin!!!
https://www.windy.com/-Wind-gusts-gust?gust,44.402,1.406,3,m:feMafWQ
Where is Dovebiker plz. Also please everyone if you’re describing your experiences say where you are.
Where is Dovebiker plz
Mull
Numerous reports of trees down across roads tonight in and around Aviemore including the A9 just north of here.
Bit breezy and on and off heavy showers in Manchester. Some debris about. Took it easy on M60 earlier in the van. Son is on nights in a HGV tonight - it's a double decker trailer so 16ft high (just under 5m). Even more of a challenge as he passed his HGV a month ago.
Powers off and the watering can blew over in the garden. Nethy bridge. Heard a few chainsaws already so I expect there's some trees down.
rattling the windows and roof in Edinburgh
Turns out I'd not fixed the leaky roof....
Mountain biking weekend in the lakes for me, already cancelled today's ride ☹️
On the plus side, my group are staying in a pub 😁
Lakes looks to have had it quite badly, various flood warnings in place, a fair few road closures due to flooding and/or fallen trees.
Here (northern edge of the Peaks) seems relatively clear but we're in a bit of a dip and yesterday was pretty constant rain. Never torrential but just unrelenting. Can see the next band of rain on the rain radar app drifting southwards towards us now...
“Lost communication” with Tiree apparently.
Very wet and very windy all of yesterday up here on top of Scapegoat Hill. No damage so far, although I did watch one of next door's hens lay the same egg twice.
Storm in a Yorkshire teacup. I was working outdoors last night, just off to do the same today. Keep clutching those pearls, ladies!
Given Yorkshire is 300 miles south of where the storm hit that is hardly surprising.
Just been up on the roof for the 2nd time this year repairing storm damage following Eowyn in January.
Manchester was calm overnight but it's picked up a bit, and it's constantly chucking it down - windy but not storm level.
Manchester was calm overnight but it's picked up a bit, and it's constantly chucking it down - windy but not storm level.
Yep, could see that rain band coming in. It's just going to be like this most of the day now. 🙁
A pilot friend of mine is flying out of Manchester later on...
Storm in a Yorkshire teacup. I was working outdoors last night, just off to do the same today. Keep clutching those pearls, ladies!
Uh... No...I think you've just been lucky and missed the storm.
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I wonder if that weather station survived the night, or just has a delay updating? Locally the observed weather is available all the way to the current time.
Was pretty wild last night, south lakes, winds back to just blooody windy now but its put some water down, off to inspect the drainage in a mo. The Joys.
Manchester was calm overnight but it's picked up a bit, and it's constantly chucking it down - windy but not storm level.
Yep, could see that rain band coming in. It's just going to be like this most of the day now. 🙁
A pilot friend of mine is flying out of Manchester later on...
My son has recently passed his HGV licence. He was on nights last night going to Rugby and back with a double decker trailer - 16ft high - about as big as you get. Very sketchy on the way back with an empty trailer.
Easing off in East Lancs now. Worst was around 4am.
Crab apple blown over in the garden (NW Derbyshire). Not much in the big scheme of things but it was a lovely small tree.
Depending on how much space it has, and how much of the root ball has pulled out of the ground, a tree can often survive if the roots are covered over. Willows do it all the time, and I’ve seen really quite big trees carry on so long as there’s a fair amount of root for the tree to draw nutrients from.
Admittedly it’s got plenty of water available, but that willow above has had bit of a hard life!
Fingers crossed, your apple might survive ok.
Easing off in East Lancs now. Worst was around 4am.
Patchy heavy rain here (S. Manchester) throughout the day although the wind is now easing. Tomorrow still looks damp though.
Not been anywhere near as bad as the north has had it, but it was pretty windy down here, steady 22-25mph at ground level, went along to the club this morning to get some practice in before we start archery indoors in a couple of weeks, didn’t even set my bow up - there were a couple of people already there, and the wind was directly in our faces, the gusts were blowing the arrows off the rests on the bows, and the target bosses, which are a timber frame with foam packed in, about two metres high, and a bit over a metre wide, had to be staked down to stop them being blown flat! That could result in around £100+ worth of arrows being trashed! We’ve had one blown clean over the brook that runs down one side, and into the next field in the recent past. They aren’t light, either.
Everyone decided to call it a day and put everything away where it’s sheltered.
I went windsurfing. Very testing conditions but good fun in a just about manageable way
Power off now for 24 hours, SSE hoping to get it back by Monday.
Cooking on wood burner and eating by candlelight. Just like the good old days
I was thinking of going to watch Cardiff play Ebbw Vale yesterday, but the posts blew down.
Ratherbe.... Gotta be worth a try, especially if some roots are still in ground, good luck.
No point in trying to upright the tree but value in piling soil against the root plate so it doesn't dry. Tree may well phoenix and is a form of veteranisation. Bit of soil mounding where limbs touch the ground may also help suckering.
Sunny and a bit blowy down here in Essex....
A few stray wheelie bins and litter strewn about, but that might just be the norm. 🫤
Our power came back on a couple of hours ago after 30 hours - even the mobile phone network was down.
Wind speeds were phenomenal, exceeding 100mph. Our polydome greenhouse got flattened fortunately it can be rebuilt with a new cover. Lots of trees down - there are quite a few mature oaks simply toppled. Tops of trees simply snapped off. Quite a few locals saying it was the worst storm they’d experienced in their lifetime.
Both the lifeboat and fire crews were out Friday night. Lifeboat was called to assist a yacht dragging its anchor / risk of grounding. The yachtsman refused assistance unless towed to Oban, despite having an injured hand, meanwhile getting nearer to shore so the smaller, Oban lifeboat also had to assist and managed to tow the yacht to a safe anchorage. The crew got back safely at 1am after 6 hours - let’s just see some crew members weren’t entirely happy with the conduct of the yachtsman.
Saw that the Lochaber MRT were out on the Ben both Friday and Saturday to carry off exhausted walkers - WTF goes out in those conditions/ with that forecast?
Some commenting that the level of local warning were inadequate and underestimated the severity - no advance text warnings were sent. This is the second severe storm this year and the resilience of power / phone network has shown to be inadequate. The power could have come on 12 hours earlier but there was no-one with the authority available here to restore it. Only one of the 3 mobile masts here has a back-up generator - both ends of the island 50 miles apart left without coverage. Those few people with old copper landlines were able to make/receive calls.
Lifeboat was called to assist a yacht dragging its anchor / risk of grounding. The yachtsman refused assistance unless towed to Oban,
An astounding level of shithousery right there.
Saw that the Lochaber MRT were out on the Ben both Friday and Saturday to carry off exhausted walkers - WTF goes out in those conditions/ with that forecast?
On a tangent, daughters’ school does a charity of the year thing. No. 1 put in the local MRT as her nomination as the demand is anecdotally going up and up.
Was chatting to another parent at some kids’ thing and he was telling me a horror story about a work crack at the Yorkshire three peaks, where one of the participants turned up dressed in black on a hot day, and was seen cutting the labels off her boots in the car park at the start line. Team leader’s face fell and he said to someone quietly that there was no way they were going to make it round…
Lifeboat was called to assist a yacht dragging its anchor / risk of grounding. The yachtsman refused assistance unless towed to Oban,
I think the RNLI version contextualises it more appropriately
https://rnli.org/news-and-media/2025/october/04/oban-lifeboat-called-out-at-height-of-storm-amy
I think the RNLI version contextualises it more appropriately
I’d prefer the comments from a number of crew members I’m acquainted with and who were actually there rather than the sanitised press release.
Parts of Ardgour and Ardnamurchan are expected to be without power till 8pm on the 6th of October
I’d prefer the comments from a number of crew members I’m acquainted with and who were actually there rather than the sanitised press release
^^ fair enough. I can see why the guy didn’t want to abandon his boat, an act that would almost definitely have resulted in it being wrecked, and in the end he made a decision which resulted in both him and his yacht being fine, but that’s down to a degree of luck, and in hindsight I guess.
On the other side I can see the frustrations of the crew, plus the fact that because of his decision, 2 lifeboats were tied up for excess time where they may have been needed elsewhere. I would hope that the yacht skipper will be making g a meaningful donation the the RNLI Station…