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Calmed down again here now.
Lovely and sunny all day here in Madrid, t-shirt weather in fact. I had a lovely BBQ 😀
Today has been a bit windy and not too heavy rain (Skipton area) but about an hour ago it got quite a bit nastier.
Quick edit: I think we are just entering hoolie mode!
https://www.dartcom.co.uk/weather
Still raining. >80mm in the last two days and no sign of letting up.
Wasn't too bad at Dalby this morning,high winds and heavy rain up near Leeds/Bradford airport now
It’s minging out there (Rochdale) - dark, wet and howling wind.
Is Storm Ellen a thing yet?
Getting windy and horrible outside now, wood burner on, chicken Zorba for tea.
It's certainly more Dennis Hopper than Dennis Thatcher round here.
Just made it through the local floods ( at about 600ft above sea level, thanks Devon clay..) wouldn't have liked to try on an hour's time, there was certainly a bow wave...
Some speculation Storm Ellen might be the end of next week. That was on a weather related group, not the Express
local floods ( at about 600ft above sea level
Wow..that's some serious flooding!
Some speculation Storm Ellen might be the end of next week.
Just in time for our half term…
Well it's been lovely here today, (Vienna). Not looking forward to landing in Manchester mid afrernoon tomorrow however. 🥴
Typical, trying to board the ferry to Arran on Monday afternoon 😂
Was running carnethy 5 hill race today, was flippin mental at the top of scald law and west kip, seriously felt for the Marshalls, I was only put in to for 90 mins, and kept warm, they must've been bloody Baltic.
Well it’s been lovely here today, (Vienna). Not looking forward to landing in Manchester mid afrernoon tomorrow however. 🥴
same, beautiful today, but rome/stansted tomorrow.....
Its been Gale 8 gusting to 10 here in Lymington all afternoon and I have to ride home from work in an hour....rain is pretty fierce as well 🙂
Wow..that’s some serious flooding
Devon sunken lanes mean that even on a high ridge road water can't run away anywhere
Spent the day on a pub crawl around Manchester, had the occasional windy bits but nowhere near the rain I was expecting. Was even in an admittedly damp but not raining pub garden (the Marble Arch of anyone is interested) for a while.
Is it still full of posties? Usually is.
Well my idiot neighbour who forced the scaffold ers to put a tin roof and wrap the erection in plastic is now paying for the pleasure
Last weekend ripped loads of the plastic to shreds early this evening the builders were desperately trying to make the bungalow weather proof with tarps as the roof is off
It's in complete darkness now so I am guessing the power is off as they had water running down the internal walls
Who plans roof off extensions in February, 50m from the sea. Div.
And forecast is for. 60kn tomorrow and its been 45kn today, still he gets off using my drive without asking, ditto the builders so I have no sympathy
Wind ramping up here on the Sarf Coast after a brief lull as we’ve had Mrs M’s mate round with the perpetual motion mouth, so even Storm Dennis couldn’t get a gust in edgewise whilst she was here, but he’s making up for lost time now she’s gone.
Not been flying today, but I’m in tomorrow when it’s due to be bad again. Was airport was that video compilation? The video states max 28 kts, but it looks much worse.
I'm a bit disappointed i listened to the forecast, I had a weekend booked to Exmoor. Probably bad there at the moment to be fair but in Bristol it seems pedestrian. Appreciate others may be feeling it real though.
Roof tiles are rattling and clattering disconcertingly loudly here in the Stroud Alps. The wind is gusting quite enthusiastically.
Just got off the phone with my mum in Crickhowell, they've had to move the car to higher ground as the lane is a river! The town's cut off due to high River levels, which is pretty normal but the worrying thing is their cellar is filling up rather rapidly. They have a pump in there that usually copes with any flow into it (house is built on an old pond so water in there is normal when the river is in the fields but it normally comes in at roughly a foot every 3 hours) and can clear a foot of water every 30 mins or so but even with it going flat out it's rising roughly a foot an hour. Neither of them are in a fit state to go down and check it so their neighbour is checking it for them, no way I could get into town if I tried!
Cardiff is just very wet and windy in comparison!
Correction on all of that, water is now in the house! Their power is off and the lane is backing up rapidly, that means the storm drains have failed. The whole street is helping them to evacuate with all the others that are lower than them. Nothing I can do right now so bizarrely I'll be going to work in an hour while they get to safety!
RJ that sounds rubbish, hope your parents are OK, good to ser the community helping out.
Commiserations to RJ and his family. Red weather warning now for SE Wales.
Our fence didn't survive. Mrs Weeksy spike to next door about it yesterday actually as it's his responsibility. I don't know whether she'll be happy or troubled, but it does at least bring an answer to "you think that fence will be ok?"
Crickhowell looks proper bad, they have been rescuing people with the helicopter this morning. The whole of the Usk Valley and the South Wales Valleys are having a hard time of it. We are cut off but if I needed to the Landrover would not be worried about the flood on the road here. it's only about 2 feet deep and always floods there. Supposed to be driving to Scotland tomorrow for a mates funeral. That trip is looking interesting!
Dennis seems to have finally run out of rain here.
Fresh snowfall this morning.
Flashing has leaked on one of my chimneys. Annoying and I'll have to fork out to repair, but in the scheme of things it's not too bad.
Our road is closed due to flooding. Lots of cars not trusting the signs and taking a closer look but no one has attempted it yet. The two cars that were stranded there earlier this morning have now been removed. It's entirely a drainage issue as it always floods in exactly the same spot, we're probably a metre lower than the road but never have an issue.
Poor folk in Crickhowell.
I think we've swerved it here in Heb, thank God, I'll bet all the news reporters that have appeared in town are disappointed. (**** 'em)
A huge amount of water has come out of the sky this morning in Pembrokeshire. It’s eased now but was solid for hours earlier.
Just spoke to my dad and it seems they got away with relatively minimal damage. They live on the street that is reported on the BBC as having a surge of water early this morning when the storm drains failed. Thankfully their house is a little higher up than the bottom of the street, also it's laid out with the kitchen a half floor lower than the lounge. The garden is still completely underwater by a good 15 feet at the bottom but the water is only just on the top lawn. The kitchen, utility room and bathroom were all flooded with 4 feet of water but it stopped rising just short of entering the lounge. They've lost all their food and some of dad's medicines plus all the dog food, that's the immediate worry but friends in town are offering them food, warmth and lodging if they need it. The hospital is aware of the lost medicines and will get fresh ones out to him as soon as the main road re-opens. The neighbours below them have lost everything so neither mum or dad are downbeat. The risk now is of waterborne diseases that could target them both and of any more rain upstream. My sister lives in Brecon so if there is any sign of more rain causing problems up there she'll phone them and get them moved to higher ground. What is for definite is that the lower garage we have down the bottom of the lane will be full of water so my trailer is rattling around in there but thankfully we sold mum's old car on Wednesday so that's not a worry.
Initial reports from friends there say the flood defences failed to cause the surge, whether that was the flood bank or the storm drain covers giving way and letting the water the wrong way I don't know.
Hopefully that's all of the excitement over with.
Cancelled plans to see my folks at the coast due to Stormaggedon .
No wind and drizzle. Grrrr
@nickc - vermin though they are you need the media to get the message out that this weather (poor land management, climate change whatever) has real impacts on peoples lives. Otherwise it's quite easy to assume it's just a load of flooded fields and inconvenience to trains.
Death by hashtag there.
@csb If I thought for a second that the BBC and ITN crews were here for anything other than "disaster porn" to be shown on the news channel all day I'd perhaps agree with you. But as that's all they're here for, then I'm glad they went away empty handed quite frankly
Looks like we're getting round 2 now. Winds picked up and it's lashing it down.
Bright sunshine and clear skies here on the Calderdale border now, mental hail storm 30 minutes ago and air temp dropped 5 degrees.