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Storm Ali.......living in the West of Scotland is a royal pain in the hoop sometimes.
I hate wind
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/warnings#?date=2018-09-19
Still only eight more months of this to go......
Arrived at 4.00 am dahn Saaarf.
Windsurfing season innit.
Hopefully the wind will drop and the surf remains until March..
I hate wind
So does your family.
Or
Setting string lines up for gridlines to get steel cages nice and accurate is a ****ing waste of time! Putting the waterproof membrane lid on an attenuation tank is a ****ing waste of time!
**** off wind!
I guess that the Wed night Mugdock ride screwed then....
Setting string lines up for gridlines to get steel cages nice and accurate is a **** waste of time!
I currently have a job with 18 Mastclimbers on two blocks of multi storey flats , right on the sea front.
That's gonna be a waste of time this week.
From a purely selfish riding point of view, I'm a bit worried about the winds predicted this week. A lot of the trees have grown very leafy and 'leggy' this year due to the hot spell (although some had started to go into 'shock' and drop their leaves early to retain moisture). Whatever - there are some top-heavy trees about at the moment - let's hope the fallers don't come down across nice bits of riding. My local stuff is fun, but very limited and is under attack from being sold off to private buyers / 'developers' etc.
What's the maximum wind load on mastclimbers then perchy? Presume they just get lowered and strapped down when it's windy. Never had a job with one on, presume they're mostly on inner city tight area jobs?
But as you say on a sea front up in one of those....after you!
It's not about the windloading as much but you can't operate them at gust speeds exceeding 34 mph as a maximum. We build in a safety factor and won't use them above 26 mph.
They are a bit wibbly wobbly even when it's calm . It takes a brave sort to go up when it's breezy.
I have a 400 Tonne crane arriving tomorrow in Euston ! Doh....
My lad is on a student placement on Bute, middle of the amber warning patch. He's just sent me a pic of his stove and stack of wood he bartered with the sawmill manager for a leg of venison. His accommodation is a draughty single glazed bothy on one of the estate beaches. should be an entertaining night.
I heard the sawmill manager wanted 8 legs of venison but your son told him that was too dear?
badum tish.......... !
its Velo South on Sunday and Windguru are showing torrential rain and gusts to F9 all morning , so worse than Ride London this year . I am happy to say I am not taking part . I will however be windsuurfing.
Met Office and Yr not shoowing anywhere near as much wind or rain as of yet , so will wait till my usual 24hr beofre it happens to feel uber smug
Storm Ali…….living in the West of Scotland is a royal pain in the hoop sometimes.
I hate wind
I guess that the Wed night Mugdock ride screwed then….
Man up, ya couple o fannies.
Heathrow weather station is saying the peak gust today is 40mph, we just had one come through though that I swear was more, one of those where you can feel the gust coming down and actually pushing you into the ground!
I heeded the weather warning today .
I wore bib longs and put a jacket in my pannier incase the rain came.
Then got on my bike as normal.
Man up, ya couple o fannies.
I forgot.
It doesn't get windy down your way. .....'cause there has been no Ayr movement since 1978
Meanwhile, in the actual west of Scotland, its calmed doon a bawhair. I'm going out for a play on the trails.
the actual west of Scotland
I think you'll find I live on the correct side of the salt 'n' vinegar / salt 'n soss border
I do work on the heathen side however.
On the east coast many trees have been turned into match sticks.
It's still blawing a hoolie but is sunny. Jacket is packed away on standby rather than necessary.
Man up, ya couple o fannies.
Mugdock blew away at 10.53 today
40mph winds and 25 degrees here, a strange combination
Mugdock blew away at 10.53 ,but it's main features remain..
😉
90mph gusts on the Black Isle
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Moderately amusing moment today when our CEO from Salisbury / office in Winchester suggested it was too windy to our Orcadian born Scottish Director, as the gusts rocked the car at Stirling castle...Scottish director merely did up extra button of her jacket without saying a word to CEO and walked off, while asking me if I was going to the beach at the weekend...
She was wearing a jacket?? Lost her roots that one
Lad texted me at about 10am to say it was nothing spectacular, then again at lunchtime to say the estate was being blown to bits, the woods and policies closed to the public, ships off their moorings in the firth and all manner of mayhem. He was off out this evening with the rifle to make some more venison..there's loads of trees down and he isn't going to be short of wood this year.
WRT Heathrow, don’t forget aviation wind is in kts, so 40kts=46mph. I’d expect higher gusts on the coast.
Also, BBC sensationalises, so them saying “70mph” probably really equates to 40kts actual wind, with odd places of local funnel effects seeing 70.
landing at Gatwick was a bit sporty in the worst of it - they had scheduled to close the main runway for maintenance , landing on the emergency runway. It has very little lighting, so hard to judge crosswinds - lots of a/c performing “go-around’s” as the crosswinds were right on limits, with a low cloud base too.
Thankyou weather thankyou very ****ing much!
Over 5000 litres of water in excavated foundations greeted us yesterday morning 🙄
Is that photo just faraway?
landing at Gatwick was a bit sporty in the worst of it – they had scheduled to close the main runway for maintenance , landing on the emergency runway. It has very little lighting, so hard to judge crosswinds – lots of a/c performing “go-around’s” as the crosswinds were right on limits, with a low cloud base too.
I dodged a bullet. I was due to be in Glasgow Wednesday with a colleague, but my priorities changes so I stayed down south & dialled in whilst he flew up. Fine from Heathrow to Glasgow, but his experience of Wednesday sounded horrific. He doesn’t mind flying, but he said people were looking nervous on the runway as you could feel the force of the wind on the tail. The take off was horrendous with a low speed plane being thrown about a lot, 5 mins flying time and they turned back due to “weather” to have one of the worse landings he’d ever experienced - he said the forces on the plane where stomach churning. Trains were cancelled so he had to stay up there. Glad I stayed, that would have put my confidence backward - but on the positive side, look at what a commercial jet can achieve in extreme circumstances!
We’re running a SUP and Windsurfing Round Hayling Island today..
The SUP guys are hoping there’s no wind and the windsurfing lot want more wind..
🤣
As is its 12knts but we’re expecting 20knts later..
South Coast (obvz)
I dunno drac, just used post image to post it with their thumbnail code. Is there a better one to use?
Yes. Use direct link code or it appears tiny.
I have edited it for you.
@ BikeBouy . I will wave from my window as they go past Looks like foiling wind speeds to me .
Velo South cancelled , Shame as the locals who tried in vain to get the event stopped with court actions will see it as a victory . Amazing amount of vitirole from the ' nothing in it for me' locals, who might have had to park 1/4 mile away if they had to use their car, oor wait 4 hours . I suspect the event would have been disrupted with tacks or protests . + one of the descents ( to South Harting ) is a 40mph blast to Lh then Rh corner on broken surfaces and would have removed alot of riders from the event
Yup its excavation season again!! i always seem to be up to me knees in muck this time of year, why cant people understand the digging in summer is better? good luck with that lot ^^
We went up Blencathra in the middle of storm Ali, was a bit bracing. There was a group of six Yorkshire lads who went off to do Sharp Edge, which was a bit brave / stupid (although it was sheltered from the worst of the wind by the summit itself). The lack of Mountain Rescue vehicles when we got back to the car suggested that either all six died or they all made it back ok.
Planners/architects/engineers! Take your pick! We've been ready for months, the box tickers however....