Yep, had ours too.
Meeeeeep meeeeep meeeeeeeeeep.
Ooh the phone alarm thing is good though. BLLAAARARRGH BLLLARRRGH
😆
I'm sat on a busy train as it came through, what a racket!
I got such a fright I instinctively bashed the back button and lost it, didn't get a chance to read message 🙄
Both my mobiles (no, not a dealer - personal and work) received the UK Emergency Alert 10 mins ago. First time I've ever received those - 'kin hell, they're loud and irritating! Which I know is the point...
I was bungee cording the wheely bins. Almost had an eye out when i jumped.
To be honest such is my lack of faith in our political betters these days I don't really want them able to override my phone like that, who knows what cockwittery they've infected it with... 🙄
All schools in Angus closed tomorrow. The lad is happy as he had a higher prelim tomorrow, so has a day of reprieve,and probably a day gaming.
I cancelled the mobile alerts back when we were first told about them for the trail run.
The system is probably going to come in slightly further north than the earlier forecasts but it’s still going to be very disruptive at best.
Where are you tracking it? For the purely selfish reasons of trying to decide where to ride on Monday (i.e. where might be least affected by windfall...)
The use of a simplistic parametric trigger is a bit siily and the UKMO system is probably better thought out in that regard. Where will the 130km/h occur? on a lighthouse 10km off land? On a hill? At Dublin airport? At my auntie’s house in Co. Carlow? Also, the damage to buildings and infrastructure at 129km/h is identical to 130km/h.
Met Éireann issues weather warnings on a county-by-county basis afaik. If there's a red warning for wind in Carlow it's because the forecasted wind in Carlow is above their threshold, not because it's going to be absolutely howling in Belmullet or wherever.
It's still daft as there's no such thing as an average windspeed per county and if it's a large county coastal gusts can be 2-3x the gust inland
Good luck all those in red warning areas like Ireland and Scotland!
Down here in Hampshire, I think the grey skies and rain will be far more depressing than the wind.
God, people in our development still have their blue bins out, the place is going to look like a landfill tomorrow once the breeze picks up 🙄
God, people in our development still have their blue bins out, the place is going to look like a landfill tomorrow once the breeze picks up ?
Yep. Some optimistic folk round here aswell.
I've just upturned some furniture, stashed a d lashed in a corner, laid down the full brown bins, and brought the loose stuff bins into shelter, laid down, and weighted.
Wondering whether I should take the washing in that's been out on the line for several days and seems to be damper than when it came out of the machine. It'll dry tomorrow, but might also end up in someone else's garden.
I went and filled a petrol can earlier, just in case I need to get the emergency generator out. Only a cheapo noisy Chinese thing I was given, but it might be useful. We're on 3 miles of wooden pole overhead line, maybe vulnerable tomorrow.
Easier to just shut the front door?
It is a particularly drafty house
I'll be on the turbo in the garage tomorrow surrounded by all our bins and garden furniture, probably with the garage door down against the wind. Should be a fun workout 😆
Down here in Hampshire, I think the grey skies and rain will be far more depressing than the wind.
It's scheduled to blow pretty hard in the early hours on the coastal bits. Just been down on the edge of the Solent near Gosport double checking our dinghies are properly tied down.
It won't be like what hits others but still pretty grim overnight and possibly Sunday.
@13thfloormonk - check out MeteoLogix website. It has dozens of forecasts on there. Avoid WXcharts as it displays the same info in a crap way so it looks is phenomenally scary when there's a small breeze.
Met office has a fab YouTube channel where you can watch daily forecasts and their Tuesday deep dives are always excellent. Very clear scientific communication.
There's a whole host of geeky weather sites but best stick to trusted sites. Most of them are like Geoff in the Dog & Duck - opinionated crap
Checked Windy a little while ago, and it’s showing this:
Nearly all weather apps buy generic global weather data mostly from US forecasters. This is low resolution and doesn’t take into account local features – because it covers the whole world. You should use the Met Office because they’re the people who’ve been specialising in UK weather for a really long time and are about as good as it’s possible to get.
It’s worth pointing out that the various weather apps do get their information from a variety of sources - Apple Weather gets its info from the Met Office for users in the U.K., WeatherPro has its own weather forecast system, from MeteoGroup, they’re based in the Netherlands and now supplies the BBC with the forecasts you get on the telly and radio. I used WeatherPro almost from the time I first got an iPhone, a 3G, up until a couple of years ago, or thereabouts, when Apple bought Dark Skies - Apple’s Weather app is now about as good as WeatherPro, if not better, and I don’t have to pay a subscription for hourly updates.
To be honest such is my lack of faith in our political betters these days I don’t really want them able to override my phone like that, who knows what cockwittery they’ve infected it with… ?
Seriously? Try growing a few more brain cells and maybe do a little research before posting such conspiracy bollocks! It’s effectively a text message, and carries nothing more than information. Jeezus!
You can always turn the emergency alert off. I cancelled it in case they use it to inject another U2 album into my music folder.
You can always turn the emergency alert off. I cancelled it in case they use it to inject another U2 album into my music folder.
That’s highly unlikely to happen again, and it was always possible to delete it anyway.
Last time there was a storm named after a woman from Lord of the Rings it caused sever problems!
Still easy to pick out loads of Arwen damage at GT and the Golfie
I landed in Edinburgh, about 2030 tonight. The alert made it very obvious who hadn't put their phone on Airplane mode. Comedy larks when everyone else turned their Airplane mode off. Multiple bleep bleeps.
Windy is showing 93 knots a hundred miles west of Southern Ireland right now. Looks like it will hit from Dingle up to Galway around 3 in the morning. Going to be some proper big surf over the weekend when the wind drops!
Holy shit! 8-0
This site provides latest observation data (unverified).
https://www.wetteronline.de/?gid=IE¶id=WW&pcid=pc_aktuell_local&pid=p_aktuell_local&sid=Map
Look for Spitzenböen (peak daily gusts in km/h)
Toplisten gives you a list off the highest recorded gust wind speeds
So far it's Mace Head 173km/h
Crikey
Thunk thunk thunk went the bins.
Will leave them for now i think. Theres still one loose.
Seriously? Try growing a few more brain cells and maybe do a little research before posting such conspiracy bollocks! It’s effectively a text message, and carries nothing more than information. Jeezus!
Seriously?? Did that really read like a serious conspiracy comment? Slight sense of humour failure there if you don't mind me saying so 😉
Windy but not excessive here, SE Manchester. Was hoping there'd be someone doing live stream from the airport but apparently not.
Flightradar shows most stuff operating, cancellations to/from Ireland unsurprisingly.
Our bins have just been emptied so I'm off out to get the empty one back before it escapes down the street!
Waiting for the inevitable video of a TV presenter standing outside and warning everyone not to go outside... 😉
Seriously?? Did that really read like a serious conspiracy comment? Slight sense of humour failure there if you don’t mind me saying so
FWIW, I found both comments humorous, admittedly for different reasons.
I'll not be laughing later on if my roof blows off mind you.
Starting to pick up in Edinburgh with some strong gusts, but not near the peak yet.
Just drove my wife into hospital, wasn't too bad at all. Procedure gonna take about 4 hours though and will have to get home smack in the middle of it. The forecasted peak gusts have risen overnight...looks serious.
Absolutely extraordinary winds in Ireland.
Waiting for the inevitable video of a TV presenter standing outside and warning everyone not to go outside…
😆
Our cat took one look outside and thought better of it, found a cosy corner in my office to take a piss instead 🙄
The forecast thunder and lightening storm at 3am never transpired but it's picking up outside now.
Nothing here yet,I feel she may have stopped in Perth for breakfast.
Praise the sky fairy our blue bins were yesterday.
I'm in Bangor, Northern Ireland, it's bloody wild out there, the whole house is heaving, windows creaking
In Aberdeenshire, all but one school, Tough School, near Kirkton of Tough, were closed on Friday morning.
That is most excellent news ,nothing messes with the Tough school kids.
🙂 🙂
Just peaking now in D&G. 118mph gusts at the Mull of Galloway at 8am.
blowing a proper hoolie here on top of a hill in East Kilbride and only gonna get worse, house creaking and gutters rattling. I woke early so got the dog up at 6 and took him out for his constitutional then, before it picked up. He's going nowhere rest of the day ! Nor are any of the 4 of us, I hope.
Bit breezy here in Troon
This is from a house just round the corner from me, the 81 gust was just a few minutes ago, it usually under reads a bit in a southerly too. The tiles are rattling but I think they’re all holding on to the roof so far 😮
In Aberdeenshire, all but one school, Tough School, near Kirkton of Tough, were closed on Friday morning.
You will be pleased to know that Killin school is closed....
Wind is starting to whistle here, high tides are about 10am might head to the beach for a wander and get a photo
Bang on the ear by the Waterboys line it started up in Fife and ended up in tears springs to mind so maybe should stay near my fire today instead
I do love seeing big crashy waves
Reports of trees down around Buxton, even though we're getting nothing like as bad as further north.
On Charlotte Square Edinburgh. Blowing nice. Was hard walking outside a few minutes ago.
Starting to sound a bit wild in our loft conversion in Midlothian. Local Tesco and Greggs have closed but Costa and Macdonald's still open.
For sale
3, no wait, make that 4 slightly damp shirts
2 children's trampolines
1 fence panel
good rates, cash only, no questions
@matt_outandabout - would like to, but I think the staff want everyone out ASAP once all the urgent things are done in their department. I don't even know if they'll have any beds or staff available come lunchtime in the dept we are in.
It's a 5 minute drive home, would like to think it will be ok if we have to leave. But they said they would keep us updated.
In Aberdeenshire, all but one school, Tough School, near Kirkton of Tough, were closed on Friday morning.
Fake news - it's shut, along with every other school around here (it's only a few kms away from me)
Just been out, there's chunks of people's roofs missing, mainly ridge tiles, it ain't over here yet :-/
bit blowy north Glasgow here.
neighbours fence is down. my covered pergola has about 20% of the cover missing and sat in the other neighbours garden. Think that percentage may increase.
east dunbartonshire council cancelled the bin collection today, thankfully.
some of the big trees are swaying about like drunk Ents .
glad I flew home from glasgow yesterday.
lovely day down in the south-west.
Got a new roof - it leaks. First rain in weeks (it leaked the whole time we were in Patagonia and trashed the kitchen) and the repairs failed again. To their credit the roofers came out this morning, looked inside but no way were they going up on the roof.
Still come across Arwen problems when out - masses of windthrow still uncleared in places.
This must be payback for the lovely weather in Tierra del Fuego we had at Christmas.
Some of my gutters and tiles taken off the corner of the roof here in Troon. Saw some of our cavity wall insulation follow the gutter as it blew past the window so presume the soffits are goosed as well.
Bit blowy here in Falkirk - red warning area. Sounds breezy but no unduly so and making you think it's not too bad, but every so often there's an absolute beast of a gust that rattles the house! Currently switching between home schooling mini-a11ys (schools very well organised via Teams...) and pre-planned DIY.
Not forecast to peak until later this afternoon though...
Mrs/Dr a11y headed into work with extra meals and a sleeping bag just in case colleagues on late shift don't make it in. 'Mon the frontline medics.
Pffft a bit of wind in NI and Scotland and it’s all over the news, can’t move for coverage of how bad it’s meant to be. Wouldn’t be like that if it was down here in England. Slightest gust up there and they make it a red weather warning; everything grinds to a halt! Didn’t hear us lot make a fuss in the last storm. We’re tough down here, my house took off and landed in a muddy field, I didn’t even bat an eyelid. Blimmin Northern softies…blimmin BBC bias etc etc etc etc etc
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Still come across Arwen problems when out – masses of windthrow still uncleared in places.
I've got lovely sycamore floorboards in the living room courtesy of Arwen (and more of it tucked away to do the kitchen floor later)
Wasn't too bad here at the end of the tweed valley but it seems to be kicking up a bit more now with some stronger blasts.
Can anyone remember the URL of that website that shows wind data in real time?
www.xcweather.co.uk
Windy.com maybe...
@johndoh there's a lot of them, but the one you might mean is this one: https://earth.nullschool.net/
Have a look at nullschool, I think its live
It feels like perhaps the worst has passed in the Dublin area - but it may come back around I guess. I was up at 1am stopping water pouring through our ceiling though - blocked roof drain backed up over the flashing.
Otherwise, I haven't yet found too much other damage
Edit: hmm, looking at those maps it's clearly still v windy out there, just with slightly fewer gusts than a couple of hours ago
I’ve preemptively pulled my fence down just to beat the rush.
@Northwind I just stole this joke for the office group chat.
TWO PEOPLE BELIEVED ME.
windy.com was the one I was thinking of - thank you!
I don’t know what you’re all worried about – as you can see the storm stops at the border, youse’ll all be fine!
Ulster says NO to storm Éowyn ?
this one is quite neat. you can see the wind farm output figures....
Getting very bad here now. Neighbours shed roof went a few minutes ago. Lots of banging noises going on.
Feel a bit bad due to real problems with it elsewhere but I do like a bit of strong wind... here in Manchester it's a bit gusty, up to 60mph gusts according to the Met Office. Sitting in the car earlier, in a sheltered side street, and the whole thing was rocking from side to side.
Love seeing the birds out in it. A pigeon just shot past overhead at something approaching the speed of sound. Spent a few minutes earlier watching a crow playing - it would fly into the wind and then get blown backwards, fly forwards again, get blown around (speeding backwards upside down at one point!) and looked like it was having great fun.
our local leisure centre roof has blown off, it's unrelenting here, still strong gusts, squally rain. I hate winter 🙁
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Getting very bad here now. Neighbours shed roof went a few minutes ago. Lots of banging noises going on.
Met office here has it currently 48 gusting 88, peaking between 12 and 1 at 50 gusting 92... house is creaking and groaning...
just round the corner, Mossneuk park
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