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My letter box is rattling..it's only a cheap pressed steel/alu flap, and I've previously duct taped a bunch of 2p coins to the underside of the flap to give it some weight, but it's lifting and banging tonight.
My cheap £30 kettle BBQ as migrated across the garden and toppled over... I'm just gonna leave it there until the weather calms down and I can see how busted up it is.
We're now up to 117kph on the front of the house. I can hear the tiles starting to lift. Now we see how well anchored the (flush mount) solar panels are!
Ryanair flight apparently from Manchester to Dublin is having a lovely tour of northern Ireland and England.
Held at Dublin, diverted to Belfast and held, diverted to Glasgow and held and now who knows where it's off to - another attempt in Dublin or possibly just right back to Manchester!
Flight radar shows lots of go arounds and holding patterns at Glasgow airport. Belfast seems to be a struggle too.
my Aer Lingus flight today at 15.45 from Brum to Belfast was cancelled, due to the storm, bit of a pain but at least I had not got as far as the airport... fingers crossed for tomorrow!
I’m supposed to be flying to Munich tomorrow morning. I’m feeling pretty sick about it.
Oh the Ryanair flight has landed at Liverpool. 3hrs to fly from Manchester to Liverpool! 😳
It was about 3hrs late taking off, it's now taken another 3hrs to fly a big loop of the Irish Sea and now it's landing 32 miles from where it started. Bet there's some pissed off passengers on board that one!
Glad of the weather warnings this weekend. Used them to persuade my 90 yo Mum who cant get up if she falls and who lives alone in an exposed coastal property in a remote D&G village with the main coast road currently closed and the other likely blocked not to go out of her house this afternoon and "sort the bins out".
Peak gusts are forecast for 70mph there, but add in the exposed location (on a corner & the beach is opposite her drive) and the gusts are likely to be 20-30% higher
possibly just right back to Manchester!
Gone to Liverpool!
My sister is on the Rotterdam to Hull over night ferry tonight. That should be fun!
Gone to Liverpool!
Flipping heck. I don't know much about aviation, but I remember seeing comments from some pilots about carrying excess fuel for emergency diversions and how they are kinda pressured into flying with minimal reserves by some airlines... They must have been running on fumes by the time they landed 🙁
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I’m supposed to be flying to Munich tomorrow morning. I’m feeling pretty sick about it.
I wouldn't worry - It's much harder to land these things in a storm than it is to take off. Munich is nice and calm at the moment. If you're in the center head on over to the Lucid electric car shop - It's a lovely thing!
Getting pretty windy here - my flat amplifies the wind especially the noise of it due to the buildings shape and m flats location in it. Very gusty - and its just dropped completely. Its nothing like as windy as the forecast tho
@Andy thats a heartwarming tale.
I wouldn’t worry – It’s much harder to land these things in a storm than it is to take off. Munich is nice and calm at the moment. If you’re in the center head on over to the Lucid electric car shop – It’s a lovely thing!
It's turbulence I'm frightened of. I have this in the morning and.... have a look at the Munich Weather for my apparent return on Wednesday. 🙁
They must have been running on fumes by the time they landed 🙁
That could easily have been the reason for the two flights running on 7700 emergency beacons earlier.
Could do with one of STW's resident pilots like @Flaperon or @dantsw13 or @boardmanfs18 on the thread but maybe they're up there battling the wind too!
Be interesting to hear their stories if so!
It’s not a day to mess about with fuel, everyone tends to want to divert to the same airports, which can fill up very quickly.
Lots of fuel buys you options and time.
I suspect all the crews flying tonight have taken a lot of spare fuel, I’d certainly have enough for a couple of approaches at destination then off to a pretty solid alternate - possibly mainland Europe.
Flying Belfast to Gatwick early doors, first flight then train to Surrey for work. Not sure what to expect. Roaring over here currently. Tempted to say I won't be in. Anyone experience of the railways around LDN during times like these? Is it going to be a day of delays?
Stupid people need to learn by screwing up. That’s how humans have done so for thousands of years. Just look out the flaming window.
That’s why we’ve learned to forecast weather as just guessing and taking a coat doesn’t work as well.
I bet whoever is out early doors tomorrow doing live stream footage from airports is going to go viral!
Remember that storm a few years back when Big Jet TV smashed all previous records?!
I’d certainly have enough for a couple of approaches at destination then off to a pretty solid alternate – possibly mainland Europe.
A ryanair flight from Manchester to Dublin got diverted to Paris Beauvais (wherever that is, given its ryanair I am assuming somewhere in Germany).
edited since wrong way round.
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It’s turbulence I’m frightened of.
Turbulance I can cope with, it's hitting the deck at 400mph I’m frightened of!
A ryanair flight from Dublin to Manchester got diverted to Paris Beauvais (wherever that is, given its ryanair I amd assuming somewhere in Germany).
Having flown to it once, I can assure you it's nowhere near Paris, in fact it's nowhere ****ing near anywhere! Pity the poor passengers ending up there, there is **** all in the way of facilities anywhere nearby!
Maybe Ryanair can just rebrand it as Manchester East....
Just look out the flaming window.
But that doesn't tell me what the weather will be in 2 days' time. And before you make the standard quip about forecasting, this current wind was forecast days ago.
It’s turbulence I’m frightened of. I have this in the morning and…. have a look at the Munich Weather for my apparent return on Wednesday. 🙁
Turbulence has never brought down a modern aircraft. We design for extreme gust loads in both the structure and safety systems for the aircraft. It may get bumpy, but stay strapped in and you'll be fine.
The wind direction for Wednesday in Munich is perfectly aligned to the runway and seems to be stable (less gusts) which is exactly what you want. It's also 1/3 less than the UK at the moment. Also, whilst the weather in Munich may be bad on Wednesday it'll be much better for your landing in England and again, the landing is the tougher part.
TUI flight from Sharm el-Sheikh to Glasgow on an emergency beacon, looks like it's diverting to Manchester or Liverpool.
That was my cousin (Capt Patrick Simpson) landing the Etihad A380 (idle boast)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-68036507
Looks pretty sparse to me, or do you need full membership to see all the planes? or maybe they are all landing/grounded ASAP?
I watched that live on Big Jets TV. It's impressive to watch in slow mo how the aircraft detects weight on the starboard (outboard) MLG wheels and slows the port wing using the spoilers, then as the aircraft starts to rotate, deploys the starboard spoilers (but less severely) to create uniform deceleration then as full weight is applied to the NLG and MLG, everything deploys. All of this in combination with the pilot input on the rudder, stick and throttles.
It's 22:00 on a Sunday. Most flight traffic will be already down. Less than 5% of flights happen between 22:00 and 06:00 hours in the UK and on Sunday, it's less.
That was my cousin (Capt Patrick Simpson) landing the Etihad A380 (idle boast)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-68036507/blockquote >
What always gets me, is the amount of force that must be on the landing gear when they land 'heavily', how it doesn't buckle under is impressive to say the least!
Big tree in the back garden is down. But TBH it was near dead, and leaning over anyway, and was a case of waiting to fall over by itself.
I hope I can glean some bits of it for the lathe.
That’s what Cannondale say about there lefty fork!
An airplane can land on it, so it’s fine for our bikes!
I never really understood the lefty fork...surely for the purposes of balance, you'd be better off with a 'stereo pair' of thinner forks rather than just one chonky one?
Gusts building up here. Now starting to get a bit worrying. Always sounds a lot worse in my flat tho.
Bit blowey here north Glasgow. Im not expecting the pvc sheeted roof on my porch out the back to survive. Its seen a few storms and is a bit worse for wear, this may finish it off.
It’s been bloody windy around these parts most of the evening and the noise of the wind around my chimney has been loud enough to make me jump a few times. 90mph gust recorded earlier on the top of Snowdon, I really wouldn’t have wanted to be caught up there with hurricane level gusts like that! 😳💨
Edit to add this HuffPost article as to why this storm is particularly unusual, it also points out that there have been nine major named storms hit the U.K. since September…
According to my weather app here in North Wilts it’s a steady 29 mph gusting to 53 mph - gusts of that velocity are unusual this far inland.
Looks like two Ryanair diverted from Leeds Bradford, one headed north and the other back over the North Sea.
Took off from Gatwick at 19:10 for Stockholm. It was 'exciting'. But super calm once we got up to about 6kft
Hilly part of south Lanarkshire here, totally wild outside, am sure there will be debris all over the place on the morning dog walk. Lying in bed listening to the house creaking…
I never really understood the lefty fork
Tangent: most forks have the lowers sliding on bushings, but Lefties use needle roller bearings. The only way this can work is to have square tubes inside the fork sliding over each other via roller bearings. This makes it very plush, but a bit heavy. But guess what, because the tubes are square they can't twist, so you can get away with only one leg and save a load of weight.
Those Ryanairs into Leeds got down, one in Glasgow, one in Amsterdam.
Getting so frequent, I kind of just ignore them, which defeats the purpose, Shirley?
It does. But I'd suggest that's a "you problem" rather than a "them problem". The criteria for Yellow/Amber/Red warnings haven't changed. The issue is most people don't pay much attention to the distinction - but the colour is there for a good reason. Yellow might be rather relevant to cyclists - whether snow, rain, or wind, things on 2 wheels are more vulnerable. Obviously everyone here is hard as nails so won't be put off from cycling even in a red warning - but normal people might be in a yellow! Those of us who use public transport will also appreciate the heads up that things may be chaos. We have an orange warning here - and I'd say its justified - i'd need a really good reason to go out.
@tjagain - they're have been 9 named storms this season but not major ones
In 1990 we had a cluster of much stronger storms across Europe
It's not CC in action... yet.