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The chimney is starting to pull quite a bit here in Carmarthenshire. I'm hoping for a bit of wind felled timber for me to scavenge tomorrow for the woodpile. How's it going with you?
There's a mild breeze.
causing damage in the south west of Ireland.
Windy here. Friend has marquees on the cricket pitch for a wedding party tomorrow. Having bets on how many will be stand by midday.
Gen up, they can piss off with this naming every wave of wind and rain as a storm, ****in ridiculous!
End of micro rant! 😆
I bet if I was to fart towards in it's general direction it'd probably nullify it! 😆
Blowing a hooley here near Aberystwyth, living smack bang on top of a hill isn't helping. House still here, garage still here, cabin still here, garden furniture though is all over the place!
Not bad here in North shrops.
Very windy. Side gate the postman keeps putting parcels through is banging again.
Forgot to close kids windows so the internal door have been rattling.
Hence why I got up at 0550.
Forecast 50knts here on the coast, currently 35knts.
3.7 and 75ltr wave board awesome 😵🙏
But yeah, naming a bit of a breeze does seem extravagant. Maybe they just want to be known for “something” other than forecasting (natch) the weather. 🤷♂️
Over on the other side of the Cheviots to Drac and there isn't even a mild breeze ..
( thought this was going to be a story about Ms.H Barnes throwing a wobblie )
Carry on as usual here in Shetland. Good drying day 😉
It’s more than a slight breeze here in Rhayader where we’re part-way through riding the Trans Cambrian Way. Today is going to be interesting...
Breezy down here in Cornwall, but supposed to pick up a bit later, 20ft swell too...
Blowing a bit of a hooley on the W. Lancs coast. No biking today.
Just about to ride to work, thought it looked breezy, didn't realise it was a storm with a name
Just arrived at my sailing club to find the bins have blown over in the car park 😱😱😱😱
Windy n pissing down up here on Winter hill...
Nowt as of yet in NW Cumbria.
Absolutely howling all night here in Pembrokeshire. I’m a heavy sleeper and it woke me twice last night. Still going now.
The blowhole might be going off at high tide!
Dinghy racing is off today. It's quite blowy here in south central. Time for some overdue bike maintenance and coffee, lots of coffee.
Chimet beacon showing about 35knots, gusting 41 so hardly apocalyptic.
Howling wind on Dartmoor
Nothing at all in Scottish borders.
Bit drizzly in Skipton. No wind to speak of, apparently we get that later.
The storms are named to raise public awareness.
We've been through this many times.
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UK and Irish Met Offices agreed to name storms jointly. Storm Hannah was named by the Irish Met Office, and is quite severe in SW Ireland. I don't think it would have been named by the UK Met for its effects on UK only.
Rattling the fence panels and blowing the trees around here in South Worcestershire .
Flat calm here in the Minch
Weather in ‘not being identical across the whole country’ shocker..
https://www.windy.com/?53.226,-4.417,5
For all the storms we have experienced these last few years, I am not sure any have offered winds quite as sporadically violent as these ones. I have been afraid for my roof a few times this morning.
Marquees survived the night but now the wind is really kicking off. Fancied got for a wind assisted PR on a couple of local road climbs but the 50mph gusting crosswinds on the way there kind of worry meand it is a busy A road.
The storms are named to raise public awareness.
We’ve been through this many times.
🤦
That might be the case, but it doesn't stop it being moronic. We've got to a situation where we're so risk averse that the Met Office is issuing warnings every ten minutes for what often amounts to little more than the typical weather for the UK.
JP
Really quite chuffing windy in the Cotswolds overnight, sent the dog mental at about 5am.
It was very blowy on the early doors Houndercise this morning, I’m not sure the Hedgehog Serial Killer enjoyed it.
A bit meh in Laaandaarn....
The storms are named to raise public awareness
In other words, to help the media generate hysteria and give the reporters an opportunity to flash the latest North Face puffer jacket.
And don't get me started on the cherry blossom, guaranteed hurricane when that flowers.
Enough wind to rustle the tree tops but bugger all else to worry about, nice sunny day as well (galloway)
Wheelie Bins everywhere!!!!
Actually lunchtime the Wind was strong enough that had to double check the door I was pushing wasn’t actually a ‘pull’ door.
Blew my wig off windsurfing 🤯
That might be the case, but it doesn’t stop it being moronic.
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Blew my gates aprt, destroying one of them (Gower)
Just enough to dry the washing quickly - SW France.
It's not moronic, it's a convention for referring to meteorological events. The fact they set up a list of names beforehand shows that everyone knows they are regular common events. It's just easier to refer to them by name rather than dates. Would you be happier if they had numbers or codes or something? It's not an attempt to aggrandise them.
What's moronic is pissing and moaning about it.
It was quite bad overnight in Carmarthen. I have fallen casualty to the storm too. After 7 years of giving us shade in the summer and cover in the rain, our gazebo is no more. Canvas completely ripped in half and 2 broken legs. We are now gazeboless. I put it up last week when it was scorching, and now this. Anyone seen any good deals on a 2.5m x 2.5m square pop up gazebo?
Tail wind all the way to work, the devastation was epic, saw 2 wheelie bins blown over!
It is moronic - it was never necessary in the past, why is it suddenly needed now?
JP
Well, as a former insurance claims manager, it would have been much easier to identify storm events by name rather than by date, especially if they run close together.
But I'm more worried that some people could get off blown their high horses in this wind.
All you lot taking the mickey because it wasn’t stormy near YOU personally, I’d like to see you man up and ride 48 km on a mountain bike directly into 45 mph headwind and rain at 3 degrees C with several river crossings through mid-Wales today!
Vickypea I know how you feel, it's like that every weekend here on the moors.
No high horses here; I just think it's daft that we now seem to get weather warnings for anything that isn't light drizzle. If it's over 20C for a couple of days there's a warning, if there's the equivalent snowfall to a summer's day in Finland there's a warning, if there's a mild wind... you get my drift.
It seems like the Met Office trying to justify its own existence.
JP
Hey Vickypea- I feel your pain here. Sounds like a good ride to me.
"No high horses here; I just think it’s daft that we now seem to get weather warnings for anything that isn’t light drizzle. If it’s over 20C for a couple of days there’s a warning, if there’s the equivalent snowfall to a summer’s day in Finland there’s a warning, if there’s a mild wind… you get my drift."
I'm a little concerned that people will come to expect and then rely upon this attitude rater than just being sensible and resilient.
"It seems like the Met Office trying to justify its own existence."
In the public sector nowadays who isn't trying or having to do so?
Phew .. impressive!
That's like landing in Kerry airport! Had similar the other day, squeaky bum time.
Great skills but it's an old clip.
If it makes anyone feel more justified the wife's brolly got blown inside out - very irksome!
Great day windsurfing, don’t know what you are moaning about 🤣
I’m waiting until they reach the letter T, for storm in a Tea Cup..
🌬🛀🥁
Aye, named storms, just another thing for the grumpy auld men of STW to moan about. 🤣
Extremely strong winds down here in Somerset, but fortunately the heavy rains they seemed to have been forecasting didn't materialise and Saturday turned out to be a nice bright & dry day. It looks like Hannah tracked a little more to the North than originally forecast.
Sunday morning is much quieter.
It is moronic – it was never necessary in the past, why is it suddenly needed now?
What an utterly bizarre attitude. If we all thought that nothing would ever change. It's a small convenience for some people, and it clearly was helpful in the past because someone thought to do it. What pisses me off about this attitude is that you're pouring scorn on something that has nothing to do with you cos you think you know best. Just leave it. One thing this world definitely does not need any more of is people being shitty for no reason.
It is moronic – it was never necessary in the past, why is it suddenly needed now?
I know. It's like videos on how to make a cup of coffee. We got by without them in the past.
Molgrips +1.
This attitude generally comes from old men who live in the north of England, and thus harder than the rest of the world. 😂
Just looked out of the window and Raincloud Ingrid is passing overhead - let's be careful out there.