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it's currently 19 deg in south devon.
Well the Ventusky site is looking very colourful! 😯
https://www.ventusky.com/?p=54.0;-4.8;5&l=gust
Stay safe folks.
Sky is a very strange colour here in south wales.
Same in East Lancs. A very weird yellow tinge and it doesn't seem to have got properly light at all
Anyone else remember the storm of 2 January 1976? We had nine elms blown down in our garden, and I remember standing outside listening to the angry howl of the wind. It was my 12th birthday.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/j.1477-8696.1976.tb04429.x/full
Same in East Lancs. A very weird yellow tinge and it doesn't seem to have got properly light at all
Looks very odd indeed...
I wouldn't fancy being on the Holyhead <-> Dublin ferry today 😯
Sky is a very strange colour here in south wales.
aye 9.30 looked like dust this morning, still kinda dark just now, pissing down up here, not much else to report.
Yup, not full daylight in Eccles yet either, saying that it's a good thing as Eccles is well grim
[quote=IHN ]I wouldn't fancy being on the Holyhead <-> Dublin ferry today
https://www.stenaline.co.uk/ferries-to-ireland/latest-sailing-updates/holyhead-dublin-port
looks like the crew didn't either...
Dunno whats giving the sky around Manchester its weird colour, but its making the sun a dull orange orb.
Very odd.
I was 12 for the 87 storm. As ever, I slept blissfully through it, got up and went to school. There were some trees down and the roads were quiet, but school was open. Only about 50% of the kids actually made it to school though.
One that didn't was Julian. He'd been trapped in his mum's cars passenger seat, next to her corpse after a tree fell on their car the night before.
🙁
its not news that east lancs is still in the dark ages 😉Same in East Lancs. A very weird yellow tinge and it doesn't seem to have got properly light at all
The sky's a weird yellow colour down here in the mean streets of Cirencester too.
One that didn't was Julian. He'd been trapped in his mum's cars passenger seat, next to her corpse after a tree fell on their car the night before.
🙁 indeed.
Starting to pick up a bit now. Weather on the way in.
@Scapegoat - that was the Capella windstorm. Another nasty bugger that ripped thru Europe causing nearly 100 deaths and an awful lot of damage.
It was probably the worst recorded storm of the modern era until the '87 & '90 storms occurred.
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Salford.
Current observations:
Wind speed: 2 mph E
Temp: 18.7 C
Dewpoint 15 C
Humidity: 79%
Baro: 1009.3 falling
Hope people of Ireland respect the weather and the advice they've been given.
Yellow sky in Birmingham. Warm too, at 18deg
Sky is also a sickly yellow here on the coast in sw-scotland but no wind at all,
I remember the 87 storm. I was watching tiles getting stripped off the houses opposite us and our big apple tree fell over blocking us in. Not that there was anywhere to go, our secondary school lost a few roofs so was shut for quite a while.
I was in my first year at Durham Univ, having gone up from Oxfordshire early October. Days before mobile phones so I had to call my parents at 7pm every Sunday night with a phone card they'd post up to me in the week. She was frantic to find out if her little boy had survived the storms and of course I'd seen nothing, and with no internet, TV, etc., it had barely even registered that the south was suffering. I think she felt a bit let down TBH.
(frankly, the hurricane could have passed through my Hall of Residence for all we'd have noticed such was the level of consciousness in that first term)
Yeah, it's all sepia here in Bristol.
Low cloud/fog here in Ripon, not a breath of wind.
It's times like this when I'm really glad I bought a house on top of a hill.....
Strange light here in Liverpool too...
Flying to IoM later this afternoon - what are the chances of it being cancelled...
bakey - your flight will be cancelled.
Wind now increasing - 8 mph , high gust of 19 at 11:16.
(data from my Davis weather station on my chimney)
we really have taken talking about the weather to a higher level
Well I've just put three loads of washing on the line, so I'm hoping for a breeze at least. Very pale light here, 17 deg and 92% humidity. South Yorks.
I remember the 87 storm, 6ft wide beech tree trunks snapped in my parents garden, no power and trees down all over the place, managed to get a lift to Purley by a mate, took hours and we used byways and fields to get there. Got to the station only to be told "no trains".
Sun's peeping out in NW Scotland. A ripple of a breeze every now and again.
Pending apocalypse here as sky turned orange.. 😯
http://www.bathchronicle.co.uk/news/bath-news/updates-red-hurricane-sun-over-632401
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Look at the barometric pressure on the south west coast of Eire!!
That's 962 mbar. A real depression.
In Salford it's currently 1008.8 mbar.
bakey - MemberStrange light here in Liverpool too...
Flying to IoM later this afternoon - what are the chances of it being cancelled...
Its very strange the light is almost like its CGI, the BBC NW news did say this morning to expect flights to be cancelled
[url= https://www.gov.im/categories/travel-traffic-and-motoring/isle-of-man-airport/flight-arrivals/ ]See here[/url]
Following events on [url= http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/hurricane-ophelia/hurricane-ophelia-latest-updates-as-worst-storm-to-hit-ireland-in-more-than-50-years-lands-36230314.html ]Independent.ie[/url]
The TD (=MP?) Danny Healy-Rae came up on the stream.
[url= http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/hurricane-ophelia/hurricane-ophelia-has-nothing-to-do-with-climate-change-kerry-td-danny-healyrae-36231358.html ]He might be correct.[/url]
[url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-40863737 ]Or just a nutter.[/url]
😯
Deeply strange quality to the light outside here in the West of Scotland. Only seen it a few times before. Slightly green tinge to it. Eerie.
The orange light today is Saharan Desert dust in the atmosphere bought up by the winds fron the South. Go and check out your car, mine is now covered in a layer of fine sand! :-O
It's went eerily dark on the coast here in sw-scotland and the birds have all ****ed off, my garden is usually full of the cheery little buggers fighting over the various bird feeders but it's spookily quiet at the moment with not a breath of wind.
After this build up i hope it's going to be a good one, i plan to head out to Carrick bay later to experience the wind n' sea spray.
It's now almost sunny with patches of blue sky, almost like someone turned the dimmer switch up!
it looks like nearly midnight here! 😆
sky / light going pinky-orange here now too (Farnham, SW Surrey)
I'm taking the mutt and the kites down to Stokes Bay after lunch just for shit and giggles 😆
That's 962 mbar. A real depression.In Salford it's currently 1008.8 mbar.
Who’d have thought there could be anywhere more depressing than Salford 🙂
My empty wheelie bin just blew over.
sky / light going pinky-orange here now too (Farnham, SW Surrey
Hopefully Mrs PP had the washing in by now. It was lovely drying weather this morning. (Farnborough)
Here in W London it’s benn a beautiful morning but it’s closing over and going a tad orange now. Could be blowy one on the M3 on the bike on the way home!
to experience the wind n' sea spray.
Famous last words.
forget the sting jet someone's spotted a twister...
[url= https://twitter.com/BeWarmers/status/919626031547518977 ]twister[/url]
Winds still 12knts but gone S'thly....and the sky is a lovely shade of Orange and Grey.
Quite fitting for Autumn.
ConFCall over Skype with work looks like I've just been in a tanning booth. 😆
I have bottled it and removed the net and mat from the trampoline.
I'm not one for conspiracy theorys but is there some news the government is trying to bury today?
Seems to be a lot of fuss about a bit more wind than usual 😕
Had a few showers this morning near Derby, but now have a strange "perma dusk" light.
Breeze getting up, washing starting to dry.
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Weird sun taken just now.
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I'm not one for conspiracy theorys but is there some news the government is trying to bury today?
I don’t think they can keep this hurricane going for the next 4 years
It's ruined my hair
No wind yet, but its perfect weather for vampires here in Dundee
Ireland getting pelted with it just now, they're getting the brunt of it start off the atlantic.
Cork city stadium. 130mph gusts
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Douglas community school, below, in cork losing it's roof. 😯
https://twitter.com/BeWarmers/status/919901858302496768
Just been for a quick pre storm blast on the roadie. As above - such weird light! Like <<inser tpagan deity of your choice>> has stuck nightshift mode on his phone. Sadly the wind direction wasn't quite where I was hoping for on the way back, so no record breaking climbs or descents.
lovely and warm here in S Wales with a light breeze. It was dark for a long time this morning though and a strange half-light even at 9am. Sadly sky is no more orange than normal here, the steel works beats any Saharan dust cloud every day of the week
It's like nighttime down here!
All gone a bit weird in Brighton.
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Went for a lunchtime run in the forest and it’s was spectacular.. low orange hue, leaves all over the groud, trails loamy and a surreal light.
Thoughts to all those affected, gotta be a worrying time for friends and families out in it..
Kids in Douglas Community School all praying to St. Ophelia this evening. 🙂
From the roof of Twicks 😯
Never seen anything like it. Think a bit of sand is being mixed around up there. My car has a thick layer.
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Driving rain and a bit windy here but still just a pretty standard shitty day for the time being.
Jeez, I hope all the flags survive the day jimjam. 🙂
Definitely sand in the air, my cars covered in it.. 😕
My car has a think layer.
That one of these new self driving cars?
deadlydarcy - MemberJeez, I hope all the flags survive the day jimjam.
No flags round here 😉
seosamh77 - Member
My car has a think layer.
That one of these new self driving cars?
😡 8)
reporting a 3rd person died in ireland cause of this. 🙁
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feeling a *bit* concerned about the wind for my ride home...
Pah, it's hardly much more than a "bit" windy at the moment round the Carrick coastline (sw scotland) with the occasional gust - very disappointing as i have had to hold onto the rocks for support in other storms, certainly not much problem cycling but according to Strava i did smash a 3mile KOM on the way back into town with the wind directly behind me, i knocked 17sec off the current time which is pretty good going for an ebike with 3" plus tyres - i don't think i'll be a dick and upload it though 😉
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Never worry about the flegs, the whole place is turning orange 😆
Starting to get a bit breezy on Arran. Ever so slightly exposed here, it could be an interesting night 🙂
Our chimney is currently lying in prices outside my front window. Not because of the wind but because we knew it was coming. It had developed a bit of a worrying lean so the weather forecast was just the motivation needed to get it taken down. Wasn’t until it was being dismantled that we realised how big it is (was) - must have been a good 12ft tall.
As the wind is starting to rise it interesting that it’s blowing in just the right direction to give the chimney the push it was waiting for. And now we realise how big it was it seems it was poised to land right where I’m sitting now 🙂
^^^ batten down the hatches Mark !
Lunch and a couple of beers in the Old Ship Inn at Low Newton followed by some lively action with buzzfoil kite on the beach for an hour. A decent breeze, no more, yet....
It's very very windy here to the west of Manchester currently. Unbelievably some half-wit has decided that now is a good time to be setting off fireworks nearby 😯
Wee bit windy about 20 minutes ago. Slightly windier now.
We run a weather platform on a pole out in Hayling Bay and on occasion it tops out at about 45knts because it can't spin any quicker, today we were expecting chunks of wind to hit it.. but nothing has materialised, maybe tonight I don't know but it's just been a blustery day after lunch.. knocking on the door of 35knts but aves of 26knts.. so kinda normal for Autumn..
I'm not disappointed, I can only sympathise with those who are having their windows rattled by flying debris...
Just rescued the 14' trampoline off the 7' high hedge - was threatening to flip over onto the cars.
We also have an ex shed.
This afternoons Stornoway ferry has had to berth in Loch Broom waiting for a lull as it failed on 4 attempts to dock. We've a passenger on it awaiting transport to Inverness and a driver now waiting for him in Ullapool.
Calm here in Aviemore though, which is unusual in itself.