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Looks like it's going to be pissing down.
Its mad how the band of rain follows the outline of the UK so closely 😉
Is it pronounced Ciara like Tiara with a C or Sierra like the 80/90s Ford repmobile?
I think I’ll give riding a miss on Sunday.
Ireland gets a shoulder massage from an enormous yellow rabbit
Is it pronounced Ciara like Tiara with a C or Sierra like the 80/90s Ford repmobile?
keer-ra like the actress Kiera Knightley Was how they were saying it on this morning weather.
Looks like Scotland is flipping us the bird! 😂
Could be an "entertaining" couple of night shifts in Brighton this weekend🙁.
Could be an “entertaining” couple of night shifts in Brighton this weekend🙁.
i might go and stick some 5 litre paint pots on my flat roof to try and hold it down.. 🙁
Looks like Scotland is flipping us the bird!
Business as usual then.
Business as usual then.
Or a massive chip on its shoulder.
Dog training up in the Cheviots will be sporty on Sunday
Ireland gets a shoulder massage from an enormous yellow rabbit
I was thinking that Britain was flipping the bird at Iceland. Or Greenland.
High Lodge and Brandon Country Park (Thetford Forest) have both announced they are closed on Sunday. Best make the most of tomorrow, batten down the hatches and watch movies with a beer on Sunday.
Ae forest TT still going ahead apparently. Driving there might be the trickiest part!
nullschool should be pretty
Keilder and winlatter shut.
Means 'sheep' dunnit
NE Scotland seems to be missing the worst
Thought this was going to be a thread about which Strava segments we are targeting 😉
Looks like it’s going to be pissing down.
Good. I hope it is like monsoon rain back home.
Save me time having to wash off all the bird droppings on my car.
*Don’s tin foil hat*
who’s Don?
Monday: Cribbar 30ft @ 18 Seconds
Faaaaaarkkkkkk
Surfs Up.
Hmm Hears mothers voice "Better put your big coat on" 😊
I was planning on riding Hellvelyn today, but the hilltop winds of >70 mph suggest that going up there by myself isn't a good idea.
Might find a trail centre instead
There's an ultra marathon from Brecon to Cardiff starting at 7am on Sunday. Organisers think it will be fine to do! Madness. Most of the run is along tree lined valleys and a fair bit is also along high ground. Recipe for disaster.
Monday: Cribbar 30ft @ 18 Seconds
Plus 40-50mph onshore winds...
Hopefully it'll be a bit tasty, love a beach walk when the sea is in full rage mode.
Stay safe kids
I hope it waits until after the rugby! We want a dry pitch to run around on and run the legs of those overfed english boys
Hopefully it’ll be a bit tasty, love a beach walk when the sea is in full rage mode.
Spring tides this week. Don’t get too close. You get big infra-gravity waves causing large surges when it’s like this.
Saturday ride it is then!
Pity it drizzled last night, as it's been dry all week 🙁
Hopefully it’ll be a bit tasty, love a beach walk when the sea is in full rage mode.
Spring tides this week. Don’t get too close. You get big infra-gravity waves causing large surges when it’s like this.
And for Nobeer... you also get chunks of asbestos 🙂
Get the bike out today, good forecast here in Dorset. Tomorrow …. light the log burner, have a beer and plenty of sport on TV, rugby, football, cricket, shame the NFL season is over!
I hope it waits until after the rugby!
Glad Wales are playing today.
And for Nobeer… you also get chunks of asbestos 🙂
It's a trade off for the palm oil and poisonous roots that keep the dugs off the beach, happy days. 😂
Looking forward to Portland Bill and Chesil Beach tomorrow.
The Mrs is working today when it is lovely and sunny, so no riding for me (running around after the kids).
If I want to get any riding in this weekend it will have to be tomorrow. We’ll see how it goes.
I’m pronouncing it in a way that makes it too orangey for crows
It’s just for me and my dog...
Maybe that’s why the crows have all disappeared
Chainsaws are cleaned, fuelled and sharpened.... Combi’s are full. I’ll be away from any trees tomorrow but ready for the clear up once the storm has passed
Looking forward to Portland Bill and Chesil Beach tomorrow.
Chesil beech will probably end up on your doorstep, so you won’t have to venture too far 🙂
Note to self to check that I still have fencing tomorrow before I let dogs out 🙁
Ah, it's you that lets the dogs out?
Who? Who? Who?
Who? Who? Who?
👏
Well BBC predicted gust speeds are slowly increasing, started around 62mph last night but it is now up to 72mph. If my night shift isn't too busy and the house isn't falling down I'll try and get some photo's of the sea at high tide tomorrow.
I hope they call the one after next Storm Ena. I've had a load of commemorative mugs printed. They're a storm Ena teacup.
Not much here yet - even Mrs F suggested a ride this morning. She's got some work's mileage challenge, but the guy who is riding to work is miles ahead. They have all been going for walks at lunch, so this morning added a few. Very little wind and lovely and sunny.
My mentally challenged entitled cockwomble bully of a neighbour 'MADE' the scaffold ers come in to wrap a 4mtr roof extension and put a tin correlated roof on it
In a beach front location with no wind break for miles
If any of the tin lifts there is a very high chance it will fly straight through one of my front windows.
The fact he is a fat liar who is used to bullying people is irrelevant, but this construction, today, is moronic and I hope the whole flppen thing takes off and launched into my house causing all the windows to go bang and possibly dislodging half the roof as well,
Because even someyhing as catastrophic as that would be my fault as my house is in the way, not his, because he is older and richer than me so must be right
And breath.... 10/10 for the controlled,seething rage. 🙂
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I hope it waits until after the rugby! We want a dry pitch to run around on and run the legs of those overfed english boys
Ahem. Just flagging this one for posteriority after the actual result...
Anyway. I've got a 5hr adventure race in the Dales tomorrow. Trying to work out how many waterproofs I can pack...
It's sounding very blowy out there now.
I hope it calms a bit for Monday morning, the ride into work could be interesting. The cars not an option as it's out of MoT too 🤦♂️
Hopefully those scaffolders have a signed waiver from the client.
Calmed down here in SW Scotland now, was at its worst about 5pm, one gust was like a bomb going off!.
Currently bedded down in our Scout Hut with a dozen 6 & 7 yr olds.
Place is creaking a bit.
Tomorrow mornings 9am pick up will be lively by all accounts.
Tree down across the track at Amberley , it could be a long night ☹️
nothing here in Edinburgh now!
Just a bit of drizzle in the Highlands for now.
Still and light rain in south Lanarkshire, very quiet at the moment.....awaiting teenage son returning from pub...
wait for it ...!
Facing an interesting drive home to Edinburgh from Oban, just debating which oft-landslipped Glen to drive through, Glen Ogle or Rest-and-be-Thankful...
Bloody mad here in Shropshire. Blowing a gale horizontal rain, patches of blue sky, and thunder and lightning all mixed in to one
Absolutely brutal here near Warrington. Anxiously waiting for my new to get in from her night shift. Not the conditions for driving.
Very noisy rain battering the front windows right now in County Durham.
Ill be staying in today, but have fly to Aberdeen tonight on one of the wee Eastern Airways Jetstream 41’s.
Might be in for a bumpy ride, if at all.
Just got in to work, haven’t had a proper look around the estate yet but a few branches down ..... There are a couple of trees I’m worried about so will go check on those once I’ve had a brew
Now, where’s my hard hat
Feels very calm in Weymouth town right now. I am in a sheltered bit though. No rain yet.
It felt like this at midnight in Worksop.
I thought it sounded rough at the front of the house but it was nothing compared to what it was like at the back! Dunno how my daughter slept through that!
For the first time in a long time it's come at me from the hill so we have. Been protected.
Usually storms come at me from the other side and funnel right into the L shape of my house and all the deterius ends up stuck there
Blowing a gale in SO18, first time I've seen a local Wunderground station (SO19) read gusts of 105Kph and get a triangle wind vane bit on the Wunderground map. 😮
https://www.wunderground.com/weather/ISOUTH502
Anyone fancy a KOM attempt up Sheardley Lane? 😆 https://www.strava.com/segments/21207924
https://mywindsock.com/segment/21207924/
just been for a bracing morning 5 mile walk, rainaggedon hasn't materialized here yet. winds 30 mph gusting to 60. was rather pleasant out 🙂
The leaking chimney we had capped and the leaking window we had repaired have both started leaking again. I'm sure we have come off lightly though.
It's amazing our three yearold slept right through it!!
48 mph high gust at 07:24 in Salford. I've got a high gust alarm set to 45 mph on my Davis weather station. That hasn't gone off in a while. I noticed our neighbours have tied their trampoline down. I didn't think they had the brain capacity for that!
I hope they call the one after next Storm Ena. I’ve had a load of commemorative mugs printed. They’re a storm Ena teacup.
The next one will be Dennis and the one after, Ellen. Then Francis, and now the dutchies have joined the Met Office and Met Éireann, we’ll have a Gerda.
The France/Spain/Portugal/Belgium ones have some groovy names. Their one a few days ago was Herve. 😀
Got woken by the first gusts about 3am and intermittently since then. Not massively high winds at the moment but we are at 200m and are on a hillside that faces SW.
The trampoline next door (I kid you not) now has a broken safety guard. At least it got battened down after the last lot of winds and it took a couple of panes out from our greenhouse.
I was wrong it is proper windy in Weymouth. Just gave the dogs a quick walk and there 3ft waves on the beach. Rain is about to start. Loads of alarms going off and the town is littered with traffic cones, wheelie bins and estate agents signs.