Theyve now canceled all of the trains of greater anglia and first capital connect till 09.00 hrs.
So an easy day for a lot of southern workers,clearing out branches from their swimming pools, while us oop north carry on and DONT PANIC.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-24696403
Newhaven life boat plus coast guard helicopter looking for 14 year old missing off Newhaven this afternoon. We were there about 20 minutes earlier.
Just put the recycling out, less than 10 miles from Project & its almost like a summer evening.
OK so its darker but mild and not a breath of wind!
Was a bit blowy at lunch time but the washing dried quick as a result 🙂
Grim up north my arse 😀
Very sad about the lad off Newhaven 🙁
Both severn crossings closed over night, so a nice journey via Gloucester then.
Just driven up the A3 in "a bit of drizzle" 🙄
I think some people might be struggling with the meanings of "forecast", "warning", and "the early hours of monday morning".
eerily calm here near Afan
Not much wind now but it's started raining. In the sarrrrrf east of the south east.
Southampton calling....
We have just had a little soot blown down the chimney and it is raining.
Not dead yet though.
Wwaswas I'm afraid it hasn't ended well. It was my daughter that called the coastguard. She knew the boy, he was a friend of a friend. She's back home now trying to deal with having seen him drown in front of her.
@bikebouy - where you out today ?
Dire wether in Paris at 7am, biblical rain at Eurotunnel at 11, windy drive to Surrey and earily quiet now.
We need to get onto a few websites for offshore weather bouys, never mind the "forecasts" that way you can see what's coming
This site has live data and forecasting - so far doesn't look so bad [url= http://www.xcweather.co.uk/ ]xc weather[/url]
Wwaswas I'm afraid it hasn't ended well. It was my daughter that called the coastguard. She knew the boy, he was a friend of a friend. She's back home now trying to deal with having seen him drown in front of her.
🙁
J, yes in Chi Harbour on Eastoke Point, 4mtr and 75ltr, 3.4-4mtr swell just off the point, bumpy on the inside with the tide on the ebb but good for jumping, some decent hight gained which was the first time this year we've had a stinker ebb with a solid SWly, niiiice.
Managed a couple of solid hours but gave up as my arms had had it 😆
@bikebouy - excellent (I checked bramblemet and it was a solid 30 with gusts to 45 today)
Note much at Sevenstones (off lands end) just yet But pressure falling rapidly - hold on - [url= http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/marine/observations/Seven_Stones_table.html ]Link[/url]
I'm assuming a 7 meter wave is unusual. It sure sounds big.
7 mtr swells are a bit big for me too.. I've seen some mates happy in big lumps but they scare me, I'm always wondering where the escape route is rather than try to enjoy the ride 😳 but then better safe than sorry, gotta enjoy your time here eh.
As to the post above, that's very sad news indeed. I do hope she stays well and takes care of herself. 😥
Been ever so slightly windy in Cambridge today, but seems to have died right down now. I'm guessing we're in the eye of the Hurricane and it will all kick off again later with a stiff breeze and the odd crisp packet being blown about.
just flew in from Ireland to Heathrow - plane up and down like a yo-yo.
Very sad indeed about the young lad...
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90 mph gusts reported just on iow. Not a breeze here in deepest Derbyshire!
Spoke to my parents in Surrey earlier. Two pieces of bread had blown off the bird table leaving only a couple of pieces. They had grave concerns that any would be left on the table by morning.
In Chatham, Kent. Just about to ride to work and it looks pretty windy out. Looks like a head wind too. Damn.
My tiles are thumping up and down and although I can't see any on the floor, there are bound to be some that are in the gutters.
However I can see the harbour wall across town where that 14yr old was swept away last night, so in perspective, its nothing.
The wind appears to have reached its choppy, flappy, gusty sustained peak here for the moment. MetO concerned about a possible sting in the tail of severe NW gusts at the back of the atorm. My roof timbers are creaking like a galleon at sea.
Where are you? I just peeked out the door, lets just say I won't be cycling across town, don't think I'll walk either. Lift please! I dread daylight and seeing the mess my roof is in...
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Averaging over 100mph here...
127mph. 112 consistently.
Drizzle and slight breeze in Cannock...
Quite a number of planes on final approach into heathrow doing interesting aerobatics before engaging full power and climbing out. Actually it's starting to look like they've shut heathrow.
It's definitely choppy out there.
Just got very windy in the last 15 minutes or so at Heathrow.
Glad I'm not flying anywhere, looks like it's gonna be a bit rough!
Friggin breezy here (Surrey), lost a few tiles and a tree has come down blocking the road. Just wondering if now is the time to sign up to strava and set a few koms on the way to work...
Worst seems to have past newbury.
Yup west London's taking a bit of a battering right now, shame as we are loosing slates from the old outhouse roof
Sad news about the Lad getting swept out to sea. 🙁
Rather blowy on the platform just now (chilterns) - the bloke who stands next to me every morning had his packed rucksack blow down the platform! One positive though - we have stood next to each other for four years and today was the first time we spoke. In fact probably the first person i have spoken to on the way to work in years. Might consider nodding to him now. Storm in breaking the ice shocker!
Train seems determined to crawl though.
Think it's all gone from here now (Somerset), finished around 5:30ish.
Just a bit of rain and wind we're reasonably well sheltered so nothing worse than a few knocked over wheelie bins here. No doubt there's a rotten tree or two down though.
Hmm, 40mph gusts for my ride to work!
Of the two Thames crossings in Reading, one is closed. Cue travel chaos for those of us due to take cats to the vets at 10.
very little impact from what I can see here in Malvernshire, but we get quite a bit of protection from the hills most of the time anyway.
FGW trains say that there's been a lot less disruption than they were expecting, so Im guessing things will be moderately "Normal" by tonight.
Hi all, anyone on from fleet/ farnborough in Hampshire?
I'm overseas at the moment so interested to know how bad the area was hit.
Any update would be appreciated
Thanks
By all accounts it was windy in Somerset last, I didn't hear a thing
Right I've got cycle in soon , should be interesting
Still sunny in sunny Brentwoood but both Essex train lines into town are suspended.
Lucky for me I'm on hols this week.... Although, which clever clogs put the clock back the weekend before half term..... the kids were up at 6 again this morn
very little impact from what I can see here in Malvernshire, but we get quite a bit of protection from the hills most of the time anyway.
Nothing to do with protection from the hills - it didn't come here
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/observations/pershore-worcestershire#?tab=last24hours&fcTime=1382828400
