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I think it might start to get a bit tasty through the afternoon and evening up around our house on top of a hill...
Calm as a calm thing here on top of my hill just now. Unfortunately thats exactly as forecast and it'll all be kicking off in the last hour or so. Should probably make sure the play house doesn't blow away, but would the kids really miss it...?
Depends, are the kids inside it...?
central Scotland, nothing currently, bit damp, but that's not unusual. As above this is exactly as forecast, with 80mph breeze to follow later afternoon into tomo morning. There is a real expectation of chaos later.
Raining but not windy here in the Borders.
Doesn't make any difference, we've no trees left now anyway☹
Picking up here near Dudley.
Getting blowy here but nothing exciting.
Fairly safe here in Manchester, we appear to be exactly in between the paths of the 2 storms this week so not hit hard by either.
I love windy weather though.
Anyway, Dudley and Eunice, really... they don't exactly sound like violent storms.
More like someone's elderly upper-middle class great-aunt and uncle around for a visit making everyone's life a misery.
Irrelevant to the weather but I can't read the thread title without slipping into some kind of West Midlands accent.
3 days of wind from nearly 180 degrees of direction combining with loads of trees freshly exposed by Arwen & corrie... Here in the NE of England I'd best stock up the fuel for the genny and chainsaw!
Getting pretty wild out there already, I think it might just be a little worse than forecast!
Picking up here near Dudley.
Picking up in Dudley!
Dudlay.
Tay windy ear.
Fairly safe here in Manchester
Yeah, we're just south (outside Disley), but about a thousand feet up on the first hill the wind hits after whizzing across the Cheshire plain. Forecast for the SK12 postcode is gusts of 50mph +, but I assume that's down in the valley.
Best bring the dog's towel in from the hook on the stable door.
Haze Am yow allroight bab?
Ar om on call aye I in case any trays cum dowun at wurk
Central Scotland here too, fairly low-lying (45mtrs above sea level) and protected. It was much windier in the early hours of this morning than it is right now, so much so that I sacked off a pre-work bike ride. Met Office predicts winds to peak around 4-8pm for us so it's likely on the way.
Preparation has extended to removing the planter from the kitchen windowsill, that should be enough 🙂
glad I got my boat trails on loch ness out the way last week...
Irrelevant to the weather but I can’t read the thread title without slipping into some kind of West Midlands accent.
I have the same affliction, which is probably beginning to annoy my girlfriend, who's actually from the West Midlands.
Fairly blowy here in Newcastle this morning. One fence panel has already come down. It had come down during Arwen, I'd fixed it as best I could (rotten post needs replacing, that can wait till the summer), and then it broke free again the other weekend 🙄
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Full Memberglad I got my boat trails on loch ness out the way last week…
Would just have to change plans, heading towards Inverness should be record pace shortly
Yep, getting lively in the west mids, my trip out with the running club later could be interesting.
Currently gusting 50mph in west Wales..
Irrelevant to the weather but I can’t read the thread title without slipping into some kind of West Midlands accent.
Not just me then - Storm Dudlay doesn't sound so bad.
Looks like we're missing all the fun.
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Lots of fences being mended around here at the moment - as a result of last weeks winds.
Yes, I just cycled to the post office and can confirm it is "quite windy" around here. Took me about 40 minutes to do the 3 miles there and 30 seconds home.
Yes, I just cycled to the post office and can confirm it is “quite windy” around here. Took me about 40 minutes to do the 3 miles there and 30 seconds home.
Sounds like it was blowing a hooli on the way back.
I'm in our new (to us) office in Bristol, it appears that strong winds generate a loud whistling noise throughout the open plan + the occasional loud bang from the roof, fun times.
Gates have been bashing off their stops since about 7am here in Houghton le Spring. Strongly suspect we'll lose our for sale sign again, but otherwise its not too bad. Went up onto the garage roof and changed the annemometer batteries earlier, so hopefully we'll get some proper data overnight.
Its fresh here in Dumfries and Galloway.
I'm on a hill near the coast with no cover....
It's picking up alright!
Heh @ submarined
I thought it was going to be worse in Scotland, but it seems that we're bang in the middle here:
Still, the wind is forecast to peak at 26mph gusting to 52 this evening. I think I remember reading that damage is exponential with wind speed, but 20 gusting to 40 is a pretty normal day here.
Bit breezy out in south lakes, glad the leaves arent out yet got a couple of trees with a bit of root heave from the last few storms so a bit paranoid
Apparently someone has just switched on the wind in the north of Glasgow
It's miserable in Fife* but no wind...yet.
*Apologies to all Fifers 😉
just as the kids are walking home from school....lol They are not happy, but now safely in the house.
Should've guessed that'd happen: wind and rain ramped up dramatically just in time for school collection. Soaked!
Starting to get a bit ‘blowy’ here on the Isle of Mull and expecting 50mph+ winds in the next hour is so. Everything’s well battened-down ‘cos if you leave stuff lying around it’ll end up in the sea! This winter’s been a bit of a shocker really - this is about the fifth or sixth ‘storm’ already this winter. They’re saying to people if they need to be somewhere else by the weekend then they should leave now due to expected ferry disruptions as there’s even stronger winds forecast for Sunday/Monday.
Hmm, my dad who is 77 and had a heart attack in December is planning to drive from Brighton to Hull tomorrow. On a jolly of sorts so not essential.
I’m trying to persuade him not too..
Can you ask him to go on Friday morning using a kite?
He'll be there in no time and can get the train back on Saturday
We're driving to Llanberis tomorrow night, hopefully in the gap between the two storms.
I'd stay above Disley.
It looks much nicer in this weather. Llanberis is just depressing in winter
It was very windy during the night last night (Harrogate) - so much so it almost tipped over our rabbit hutch so I was out at 7am making a temporary shelter for them in the garage. It then calmed down for a bit but has started getting very wet and windy in the last hour.
I am in the north of the Scottish borders and it is VERY windy right now. If one more person doesn't close the communal gate properly I may be forced to deploy a passive aggressive note!
I walked to the shops a few minutes ago and secure half a dozen recycling bins that had wandered into the road.
Llanberis is just depressing
in winter
You know this. I know this. MrsIHN will not believe this, so that is where we're going.
Nothing particularly bad here but I'm worried about doing the school run friday morning. Looks like we are getting the brunt of it around then with 60knot average wind speed, really don't know if walking would be safe... edit, or rather, don't think it would be safe, but no real option to drive as end up parking a faitr distance from school anyway
Anyone else spent the day saying “Storm Dudley” with a really bad Black Country accent? 😀
Just to confound things there was a fire on our street resulting in everyone losing power. There’s a crew here digging up the road so hopefully be sorted before it gets dark…..
Anyone else
spent the day saying “Storm Dudley” with a really bad Black Country accent?obviously not read the rest of the thread?
🙂
Keeping an eye on the big Ash tree in the garden as it's looking a bit worse for wear. Definitely picked up here (HD6) in the last hour or so.
We had cancelled todays delivery work in Northern England and Scotland.
I have just cancelled delivery and staff travel for Friday in Midlands and Southern England - Eunice could be rather 'interesting'.
Stay safe folks.
*throws grenade*
I’m looking forward to the wall to wall news coverage as the storms batter the most important parts of the UK over the next couple of days.
*runs off giggling*
(Sorry to all those still affected by previous storms up North, sadly we’ll see the biased news coverage)
In a meeting with Met Office earlier. They are suggesting Eunice will be upgraded to Amber soon enough for our area (Borders) due to combination of wind + snow = drifting
They also said Mondays storm has potential to become a named storm as well but too early to commit to that.
Proper blowing the rain sideways here in Staffs. I'm gonna go for a night hike later and I'll be like lieutenant Dan on top of the fishing boat in the storm.
'COME ONNN, IS THAT THE BEST YA GOT'
fun down wind out block headwind back road ride today (so mild) only just under an hour but my legs are burning 🙂
I’m gonna go for a night hike later
Yeah, F_ that.
I've just been to pre-emptively buy some fence supplies, there a cant rail (I found out it was called that today_ that's been close to done for a while that will likely not make it to tomorrow!
Bit of a damp squib here in Salford.
Had a 44 mph gust at 15:59.
Davis Vantage Vue nerd!
My boss has had power off in Salisbury for a few hours today -the power company called to check power was back on and suggest that they prepare for widespread power outage for the Weekend.
Candles, batteries and camping stove at the ready. 👊🏽
Edit: the Friday commute home may be 'challenging'. https://www.ventusky.com/?p=53.5;-3.4;5&l=gust&t=20220218/1600
Your candles take batteries? You've been done.
Yeah picking up here now too, I’m nights again as I was in Arwen. :/
Om allroight ar, no trays dowun yet but me pigeons am frettin.
It kin git ower blashie 'ere shortly, sae muckle sae that trees kin fall
central belt in scotland. getting quite blowy. My wife has just arranged for me to go pick up a 2.5m long kitchen worktop. I'll need to strap it to the roof of the berlingo.
not today thanks. :-/
Worktop, Dudley and a berlingo, please Nic post the after photos of that!
Its like we are being teased here. One minute its torrential hail and big breeze, next its sunny and quite pleasant. I suspect Mother nature is waiting until after dark and then she will release the hounds..
Be grateful you don't live in NW Germany - they're going to get both storms over the next few days
Flippin wind in Cardiff and it's going to keep going all week, and get worse. 100mph forecast for West Wales later.
Be grateful you don’t live in NW Germany – they’re going to get both storms over the next few days
Just like here then.
My recycling bin has tipped over and its contents gone up the street again. I know it's mine: dog food trays and tins, oat milk cartons and far too many empty cans of IPA. I've put the damn things horizontal now seeing as bricks on the bins weren't working.
I saw one of those huge garden trampolines take off across a couple of gardens.
Gusty in North London but only enough to blow a hat off. We are getting ours via Eustace on Friday I believe.
Bins get collected tomorrow, I'll tie them down after that.
Storm Eunice/Ylenia over BENELUX and Germany Friday evening
All quiet here now, but did hear there was a Lifeboat and Coastguard shout at 5pm - hope everyone got home safely.
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Llanberis is just depressing in winterYou know this. I know this. MrsIHN will not believe this, so that is where we’re going.
This place will cheer you up. 🙂
https://www.caban-cyf.org/
Maximum gusts of 77mph here, pretty much when we were out with the dog on the beach 😄
Supposed to be going away in the van tomorrow night and riding at Laggan Wolftrax on Friday……
Take yir snowshoes;-)
Flaming windy on the ride home from Manchester. Glad to get away from the buildings as you could hear stuff falling off. Ashton canal was really gusty, so had to watch speed. Peak canal was very tricky with side winds and quite a bit of it is elevated.
Tree debris everywhere.
Take yir snowshoes;-)
Snow chains, shovel & big brush packed.
Bit breezy out in south lakes
was a tree down blocking the ambleside to windermere road late afternoon, luckily was cleared quickly so no problem getting home from work.
Well, the wind is certainly finding the draughts were didn't know we had. One big gust just blew the door between the kitchen and living room open 😳
I'm just back from a short evening walk.
Much regret.
It’s quite rubbish! Was meant to be on a lads MTB trip 3 hours north to Mabie Forest on Saturday! I’ll be surprised if any forests are open on Saturday throughout the country!!