ITV2 showing The Perfect Storm at 18:30!!!!
I wonder when that was scheduled?
Met Office graphics suggest the worst will be midnight to 03:00.
the wind turbine came down last night I think CG
here in SE Devon the worst is looking to be between 21:00 - midnight
Force 11 forecast for Challaborough! 😯
FAO weather gods: it better be over & done with before my 06:30 commute.
I'm driving from Brum to Reading 8 till 11 tonight, will I die?
At some stage, not sure if it will be between 8 & 11 tho....
It's only doing this because my boiler is broken. Sodding freezing in Chateau Mule ATM.
Nice sunny day here in central Spain, a bit chilly at 8:45 when I set off on my bike, but warmed up nicely by midday. HTH.
WARNING:
INCOMING MEGADOOM
I have just been out to the garden to get my wellies. They had been blown over.
ITS HERE AND ITS TERRIBLE
Do I need to tether the cats down?
Where's this storm then? Conditions at Woburn were perfect this evening, nice and tacky 🙂
It's only doing this because my boiler is broken. Sodding freezing in Chateau Mule ATM.
Expect the temperature to significantly increase when the storm hits you.
Pretty blowy on Gower. Got blown off my bike on Llanmadoc Hill, probably not paying attention, and some waves were beaking on Worms Head and the spray was up and higher than the outer head!
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so a lower than normal risk of zombie apocalypse in the north of england. Every cloud...
Just had some fun finding footage of recent hurricanes on YouTube, playing them and telling the family that it is now and just about half an hour away from us. 😀
Kids are now scared though. 🙁
Nothing in the Chilterns yet.. but it was bloomin windy in the pub 🙂
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Am attempting to make my concern for the car appear to be concern for my wife on her morning commute. She has seen through me - I am a terrible liar!
Nothing in Southampton yet but we are watching Perfect Storm on ITV2 if that helps
Arse covering de-litigation exercise by the authorities perpetuated by the media accompanied by crappy colour codes to make it even simpler for the gormless lap it ups. Yeah if you live by the coast batten down the hatches and stick out some sand bags but which of Britains bazillion trees is gonna come down? Some will but you probably won't know which until its too late. Bloody soft considering there's people bombing and shooting each other 24 hours a day elsewhere... I hope the foreign meeja doesnt get wind of how spineless we are (did you see what I did there?)
......but which of Britains bazillion trees is gonna come down? Some will but you probably won't know which until its too late.
Erm, I think that's precisely the point they are making, and why many trains won't be running until things have calmed down a bit.
FFS !
I tied down the bloody trampoline in the rain for this frigging light breezefest ?
(yes, I realise that my fencing, chimney and begonias are now history)
And exactly how do you litigate for the random acts of the weather?
Its autumn, there will be storms, that's what happens. Couldn't believe it was top story on the BBC TV news earlier. Crazy world....
Couldn't believe it was top story on the BBC TV news earlier.
What was the top story everywhere else ?
Ernie, in Damascus they led with the fat bloke still being in "strictly", but this was 2nd on
Have any of you southerners had the froth blown off your latte yet then? I note the BBC reporter has got his NorthFace jacket on, so I'm presuming shit got serious! 😀
The Great Storm of 1987 was much worse than the forecast to-night, just seems that we have lost the ability to cope with any weather events in this country.
When we have a bit of weather like this (is meant to be) I always think of the daughter of a family friend. Today she is a beautiful, talented surgeon. In '87 she was 6 inches from an early bath on this moral coil when the chimney stack toppled on their house, crashed through the roof and landed on a huge heap on the end of her cot. Fortunately the right end! I got a couple of weeks off school because the school's roof was relocated to the rugby pitch so it wasn't all bad news!
Not working tomorrow and with a bit of luck I can break the chainsaw out [s]to liberate a couple of years worth of fire wood[/s] help a few neighbours clear their drives.
Loads of wind in Yorkshire, specially after that Sunday dinner with homemade Yorkshire-Puds.
It's no laughing matter binners
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Meh, our kids went out to build a den and light fires on Sherrifmuir this afternoon - apparently it was 'a tad breezy'.
Well I've just noticed an upended plant pot in the garden, but to be honest I suspect it to be the work of a severely retarded small cat.
Oooh, we can watch it live...
http://www.wunderground.com/wundermap/
At the moment, west coast of Scotland is windier that that south coast...
In Surrey its rainy with no wind.
Has it passed or are we in the eye?
binners - Member
Have any of you southerners
Racist!! 😉
I've just been prepping for damnation and whilst folding down the bistro set I've broken one of the table legs clean off!!
This had better be good else the media/god owe me a new bistro set! 👿
Just looking at picture of our "hurricane" on the BBC. A few trees blown over OK makes it look relatively serious. The other pictures are of people on either a beach or harbor wall. The beach is probably safer but the people on the harbor wall seriously should be locked up. One of them gets swept over and we send out rescue crews who may or may not coe back to to someones utter stupidity. I guess that happens every year when its a bit blustery but FFS they should get locked up for their own safety and the safety of others who may be needed in an emergency not of their own making.
Doesn't this happen every year? Its when you go Hoover up the last conkers
Hardly a breeze in Manc
I went for a MTB ride the Sunday after the storm in 87
At one point we climbed with bikes over fallen trees 8 feet above the ground. We were the only traffic on some of the minor roads, being impassable from fallen trees.
We did wear dayglo though so it wasn't all bad
Wirral, bright sunshine, a bit of wind, high tides, breaking over the prom washing away all the dog pooh,lots of older people suitting in cars reading the papers with the engine running.
Tonight its just dark and dry.
It's all started here, next door's garden has been hard hit:
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sunny out, mind - you must be a long way south !
