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sounds like she'll bring you a nice cup of tea, but met office have just issued a red warning for the SW...
UK weather warnings - Met Office
obviously for those beyond the wall, just a normal day and we should stop being such drama queens....
Considering keeping the kids home as there might well be travel chaos and the chances of something blowing onto the lanes we use to get to school is fairly high. There's a fair chance of the schools closing anyway tbh.
Dont think I've ever seen a met office Red in Englandshire before, and definitely not for those of us who have dinner in the evening.
Given that
yellow = absolutely no concern to any suburban or city dweller going about their daily life
and
amber = quite a dangerous blow/flooding/snow warning with significant damage and destruction
if there is a similar sized step up to red then good luck to all involved.
Ebike motor coming into its own now. Journey home was great. Passing other cyclists moving at 3mph,heads down, struggling into the wind I could sense their effort.
I didnt drop below 12mph, and it was up an incline too 😀
Shame about the horizontal rain, but them's the breaks here in Scotland.
obviously for those beyond the wall, just a normal day and we should stop being such drama queens….
Around 1:50 😂
Dont think I’ve ever seen a met office Red in Englandshire before
there was one 3rd jan 2018, the mini beast from the east. obviously I went for a ride...
There was one in November last year.
Good luck guys if it’s anything like Arwen it’s quite a ride.
Last time there was a red in Scotland everyone on here sneered at it, then when it hit they said 'actually it's pretty bad out there'. I seem to remember one forumite nearly being taken out by a flying sign. They don't mess about with the red warnings.
Our next door neighbours have scaffolding with a top hat on that wasn’t sounding great during Dudley the other night. 😲
Might drop a hint to get up there and make sure everything’s nice and tight.
EDIT: Bristol
Looks like we're going to get it right in the mush here in SWales. I would, do as they say, and stay indoors, but the kids have got an inset day so sod that, I'll be sheltering in the office.
Our next door neighbours have scaffolding with a top hat on that wasn’t sounding great during Dudley the other night.
Get a live feed web cam on that...
Get a live feed web cam on that…
and a tracker to see where it ends up...
South Wales local authorities are shutting all schools tomorrow, staff not too attend in service events either.
I await some poor schmuck from BBC weather stood at a Welsh harbour while reporting how dangerous the weather is ..
My day off tomorrow may not involve a bike ride....
I await some poor schmuck from BBC weather stood at a Welsh harbour while reporting how dangerous the weather is ..
How do the risk assessments for that work? Though they get sent to war zones I suppose.
Dudley produced some strange cloud shapes up here.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-60415080
I await some poor schmuck from BBC weather stood at a Welsh harbour while reporting how dangerous the weather is ..
jam-bo
Full MemberDont think I’ve ever seen a met office Red in Englandshire before
there was one 3rd jan 2018, the mini beast from the east. obviously I went for a ride…
The worst weather conditions I've ever encountered in Devon were with unnamed storms. One windy day saw my wife's friends car door blown off when she opened the door at the valley of the rocks. Then the two of them had to part crawl along the floor to get to the cafe! It is tougher up in North Devon though 🙂
Looks like we'll be spending tomorrow very much inside our AirBnB in LLanberis.
deadlydarcy
Free MemberOur next door neighbours have scaffolding with a top hat on that wasn’t sounding great during Dudley the other night. 😲
Also Bristol - house opposite is having a loft conversion and has the same set up. The polythene ‘hat’ was making a hell of a racket in the wind yesterday as I was trying to work from the study. Not fully expecting it to still be there this time tomorrow.
Looks like Bristol schools closed a day early for half-term (just picked up boy from primary - so don’t know any more than that…). Never seen him happier - even though I promised him I’d prepare a few lessons to make up for it. 😀
don't often see a yellow snow warning
Yeah. Don't eat the yellow snow.
Edit.: It's actually snowing here at the moment
^ Good dat
Last time there was a red in Scotland everyone on here sneered at it, then when it hit they said ‘actually it’s pretty bad out there’. I seem to remember one forumite nearly being taken out by a flying sign. They don’t mess about with the red warnings.
This. I have just suspended all site works for tomorrow - can't risk people getting hit by flying debris.
Looks like things are a bit windy over in Germany
https://twitter.com/EberleSebastian/status/1494277970936188930?s=20&t=8UsDKsLfLOyU87asIyrfoA
Though this i guess is Dudley related as Eunice is only just developing now
I'm reading mumblings that there won't be post deliveries from at least the depots around Cardiff and Swansea tomorrow (Fri 18th).
No idea if posties from said depots are still expected to go in and prep any mail that arrives, in readiness for the anticipated resuming of deliveries on Saturday.
Considering keeping the kids home
All Dorset schools are closed I expect other SW will be too
I've never seen a 86 mph wind prediction down here before. Got a half built shed up ATM. hoping for the best expecting the worst
That vid ^
Nope nope nope nooope!
A government source told the BBC they were "well-prepared" with more than 250 high-volume pumps and 6,000 trained staff able to be deployed, adding they were not taking the threat posed by Eunice "lightly".
Just like Arwen then. Oh wait sorry no. Nothing like Arwen where they didn’t prepare anything and huge areas went without the basics amenities for days.
All trains here in NL suspended from 1400 tomorrow!
[i]A government source told the BBC they were “well-prepared” with more than 250 high-volume pumps and 6,000 trained staff able to be deployed, adding they were not taking the threat posed by Eunice “lightly”.[/i]
Are they going to stand in a line pumping furiously and hope to blow back the wind?
What bike pump to divert a storm?
Also - told not to put our bins out tonight in Southampton
My school has just said it's closed tomorrow... Bit bizarre, can't say I agree with that, although we were struggling due to lots of staff with covid anyway...but even so....
there's a danger to people travelling from the winds and the debris etc.
+ potential for coastal flooding in the Bristol Channel as peak winds are going to coincide with spring tides
Schools seem to be shutting in Plymouth but my kids school is still open - the PTA have cancelled the outdoor doughnut sale, mind. 😂
Hopefully, Dartmoor will give some protection compared to the north coast.
We have 80mph winds forecast in Chichester, that's nuts!
On Gower...I think it's going to be messy.
This where we find out how good our builder was
I was feeling a little smug that although my work for tomorrow is off (can’t really clean the windows on an 11 storey block from the ropes in those winds!) at least I still had a dog walker booked so I would t need to go out. She’s just cancelled all walks for tomorrow due to the forecast. D’oh!
Are they going to stand in a line pumping furiously and hope to blow back the wind?
They're for the floods caused by the storm surge.
Whats the chance of us getting the Ferry from Portsmouth at 22.00h tomorrow or even getting to Portmounth from Macclesfield tommorrow afternoon
Yeah, naw.
Ferry will be fine, as it will be mostly blown through. Actually getting to the ferry, allow a couple of hours spare for traffic jams.
A3 usually runs ok, Petersfield will be lively ad you get accelerated airflow through the cutting
My roofs coming off. Its ok up to 60ish as thats not that rare on the coast. 70plus the tiles tend to rattle and do this weird domino falling effect. Hips are all loose as the mortars had it so i expect most of them to be in the drive or road.
I am supposed to be starting work at 11.45 in Chichester, which is pretty much the worst of the forecast wind speed
Be driving around looking for a huge tarpaulin instead or mopping up the loft room ad the wind blows the rain up the velux and in under the tiles somewhere
Due to fly back to LBA tomorrow afternoon, kind of hoping that the flight will be delayed until Saturday
It'll be a normal day at LBA. Windiest cow shed in the UK.
Just like Arwen then. Oh wait sorry no. Nothing like Arwen where they didn’t prepare anything and huge areas went without the basics amenities for days.
I'll let you into a secret, they already had all that kit, they didn't buy it specially. Government announcement truth adjacent shocker.
@stue - took the kids up to watch some planes landing at LBA on a windy Sunday a couple of weeks ago. You'll be glad I didn't take a video 😳
Not one of them landed in a straight line...
I hope every local news presenter has a warm coat it's great when they get sent out to shout into a furry mic telling people to stay at home.
I used to fly in and out of LBA fairly regularly. The best bit was when you started going downhill before getting airborne. Think Lukla but less scenic
A mate of mine flew in and the pilot had to abort three landings before finally getting the wheels on the ground. That was about 15 years ago and my mate has since refused to board a plane!
Our next door neighbours have scaffolding with a top hat on that wasn’t sounding great during Dudley the other night.
Yeah. That's us. Top floor flat in a mansion block with a big old scaffold maybe up 20m from ground level. The scaffolder just phoned me to tell me the cunning plan is to cut through the monarflex if it is getting bad.
Wonder what it'll be like by Sunday - I have to pick my sister up from the airport, assuming her flight makes it over here and lands in one piece. Imagine it might be quite a bumpy approach!
@woody2000 I live 20min walk from the airport and have often seen some of the landings there,which is way I'm hoping that the flight will be delayed
I've got to travel from Cardiff to Bristol then drive a double deck curtain side truck all day, tomorrow is going to be interesting to say the least!
I await some poor schmuck from BBC weather stood at a Welsh harbour while reporting how dangerous the weather is ..
The BBC has a studio down Cardiff Bay that they occasionally do weather broadcasts from up on the roof, that could be a little bit entertaining!
BBC Weather is saying 70mph winds in London, which is unheard of
BBC Weather is saying 70mph winds in London, which is unheard of
and we'll never hear the end of it 🙄
Calm before the storm here in South London. I just went out and put extra pallets on top of the tarps over my wood pile. Somehow I've never had a problem, even a few years ago when the scaffolding around the opposite neighbour's house blew over my tarps stay put. I've jinxed that now of course.
😆😆
I've battened down every hatch I could find in the garden. Chairs are pre-tipped over.
Just praying that the wind comes from the south as my very big , 80 year old shop windows don’t like it coming from the north or west.
To fully prepare you need to place your garden trampoline on its side on a dual carriageway, or a train track
It said around 70mph earlier today for E.Kent but seems to have dropped down to 65mph now.
I’ll let you into a secret, they already had all that kit, they didn’t buy it specially. Government announcement truth adjacent shocker.
I don’t think anyone thought they did.
Try windguru.cz for all the different forecast models
Its coastal spot based mostly. Ikon7 or wrf3 seems to be the most accurate imo.
Then rpr hurst castle anemometer links into windspeed sites round the uk at weatherfile. Com.
Xcweather for actual windspeed, presure maps and weather past and forcast
Chimet for windspeed by my home
Hayling surfcam for a look at the English' channel in glorious technicolor
and we’ll never hear the end of it 🙄
amazing. The grumbling started before it’s even got windy down here…
On BBC weather, highest wind forecast I can see for tomorrow is Penzance 73mph. Still looking though
Bude. 89mph at 10am
Load of hype. On the west coast of Scotland windiness scale 8 out of 12, kilts may lift and midges can't fly unless really hungry.
Southern softies!
I reckon Severn coast flooding might be the real issue.
Mrs Lister won’t let me go to the blowhole tomorrow (not a euphemism btw!)…apparently I might end up as ‘one of those idiots you hear about on the news’.
Pembroke forecast is 88mph at 10am so she may have a point…
I wonder if most people on this thread understand how hard it is to walk or even remain standing still at these kinds of wind speeds
I do 🙋♀️
Great explanation on BBC newsnight just now why the seriousness of equivalent wind is so much greater down south than in Scotland. Basically it's because it's so rare and the damage is therefore greater. Nothing to do with London softies or the Scottish being hard.
amazing. The grumbling started before it’s even got windy down here…
To be fair the hype started days ago for the south being windy.
I wonder if most people on this thread understand how hard it is to walk or even remain standing still at these kinds of wind speedsYeah
Or deliver a 28 week year old baby with no electric or heating. 🎤🖐🏻
fingerbang
On BBC weather, highest wind forecast I can see for tomorrow is Penzance 73mph. Still looking though
82mph in the town I live in at 2pm yet the same BBC weather page is showing 43mph 7 miles away where I work that is right on the coast & 7 miles up the coast is 78mph.
Lets just say its going to be bloody windy. Having worked on the Mersey shoreline for 26 years I know all too well what gale force winds are like 😮
I was clearing some drawers out in the garage a week or so ago and found a power kite I bought off Brant / On-One probably 15+ years ago. 6 or 8 foot, I think. Never had it out the bag other than to look at it.
How much is it worth to try a maiden flight tomorrow then?
@csb - it's not that rare, we have short memories or forget the things we don't like
It's a bit like someone saying it's not flooded here in the 12 years I've lived here... It's just an anecdote and doesn't have much merit. What we've observed is not a good representation of what can happen.
In the last 20 years there have been plenty of large powerful windstorms but thankfully they've not directly hit large centres of population. That's just good luck but it lures us into a false sense of security. There are several very large events like this every year across Western Europe. Some cause mayhem, most don't.
It's almost as if most UK residents have forgotten that we live on a very windy rock in the NE Atlantic
On Gower…I think it’s going to be messy
Yes. I usually like wild weather but a forecast of over 90mph winds is unusual. Where I live there is no shelter to speak of (I can see Lundy from the house) so I am feeling nervous this time.
why the seriousness of equivalent wind is so much greater down south than in Scotland
Basically if it’s likely to be blown over then in Scotland it already has been.
For a good example go to Tiree - trees don’t like it there (windsurfers do though)