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Well, in yet another case of awesome timing for my trips to Scotland, I'm scheduled to fly into Aberdeen with my two kids at 18:00 tomorrow evening and then get a train down to Glasgow.
I'm kind of hoping the flight gets cancelled as I suspect there is more likely to be rail disruption than flight disruption. Then I'm stuck trying to find accommodation for me and the kids somewhere between Aberdeen and Glasgow.
Wish me luck!
Blowing a hooley in Kerry
fly into Aberdeen with my two kids at 18:00 tomorrow evening and then get a train down to Glasgow.
Maybe the plane will be diverted to land at Glasgow saving you the trouble of the train trip?! 😉
Indeed we have a long weekend in the camper with some friends - looking like a book and pub weekend...
One of the campsites in West Wales we visit a few times a year has cancelled its end of season party. It's well known for being exposed but they have had to take down a large industrial event gazebo due to 70 mph winds forecast.
We're going to the Lakes this weekend. It'll have to be low-level walking given the forecast, the bike can stay here.
It's now an amber warning in NW Highlands and Hebrides. It's going to be very windy up there but they are a lot more used to it.
Saw earlier that the Gravelfoyle 10 event has been cancelled this weekend - probably wise given likely conditions
Blowing a hooley in Kerry
Yes, lashing down in Dromid as I type. We are doing the Sneem walking festival this week, not optimistic that'll happen
Nothing in Stirling area, but it is looking like it is going to tip it down!
Absolutely chucking it down in Mallaig area from 11ish.
We are having a party on Saturday night for my wifes 50th. Its all arranged to be outside!!...
We're in Leeds so shouldn't be as bad as further north but still screwing our plans up. We'll manage, but could do with it not blowing a gale and pissing down....
Booked a long weekend to get up some hills. Was hoping to camp Fri, Sat and Sun....nevermind, suppose I'll go to the pub instead.
We're in Leeds so shouldn't be as bad as further north but still screwing our plans up. We'll manage, but could do with it not blowing a gale and pissing down....
I don't want to be funny about this, but you know it's October in Leeds? Or are we talking about somewhere called Leeds in the Cote D'Azur? 🤣
We are having a party on Saturday night for my wifes 50th. Its all arranged to be outside!!...
We're in Leeds so shouldn't be as bad as further north but still screwing our plans up.
You've arranged a party outside - in October - in Leeds!!!!?? 😱 😱
I'm sat in the garden drinking a cup of tea in North west leeds (Yeadon) it's not sunny but it's pleasantly warm
Newsflash - the storm isn't here yet.
Daughters first full weekend at uni and she has booked on a day trip to Windermere for freshers. As she herself has just said "I know how shit it is in the rain, I may not bother"
Couple of work colleagues are walking the WHW. I will be interested to hear their plans
In a not extreme or dangerous in any way situation - I've got my last bowls match of the season tomorrow night in Derby - should be fun! 🤣
Newsflash - the storm isn't here yet.
are you sick of these incessant storm updates?
In a not extreme or dangerous in any way situation - I've got my last bowls match of the season tomorrow night in Derby - should be fun! 🤣
Depends which bit of Derby, to be fair
I've booked a weekend in a cabin with my wife for our wedding anniversary. Kids at home with my mum. 1st weekend away together without them since oldest was born.
Cabin is Brecons-ish. We've booked BPW for us both tomorrow/Friday - her first time riding there - exciting! 🤣
Wouldn't be devastated if it was closed/vouchered, but I don't know if it's going to bad enough until after 4pm.
Had someone (non-islander) tell me today it shouldn’t be a problem “It’ll just blow through” - forecasting 70mph+ winds for tomorrow, but he seemed to think weather is some sort of conspiracy. Ferries to/from Oban cancelled from lunchtime tomorrow and probably all day Saturday.
Cub camp this weekend cancelled, gutted as leader availability means we can reschedule this side of Xmas!
The first wave of rain before the main course is just arriving now.
That should come through overnight, then there'll be a period of suspicious calm before the main dose of heavy rain arrives sometime on Friday lunchtime.
Just looking for alternative plans to the Skye trip, definitely somewhere east of there and almost certainly a bothy rather than a tent!
The rain eased up here about an hour ago, finished off with an almighty downpour though. Safe to leave the house now though 
I've booked a weekend in a cabin with my wife for our wedding anniversary. Kids at home with my mum. 1st weekend away together without them since oldest was born.
The cabin could indeed be rockin'. Wind obvs.
Reasonably windy already tonight but nothing out the ordinary. Supposed to ramp up overnight with the yellow warning kicking in at 12noon (rain) and 3pm (wind) where we are. Eldest supposed to be doing outdoors stuff in the Ochils after school tomorrow, I suspect that might be called off...
The ROC Triathlon in the Highlands (Kinlochleven) cancelled earlier today. The run course goes up onto the top of Ben Nevis and back. Would have been a disaster if its half as windy as predicted.
Well, in yet another case of awesome timing for my trips to Scotland, I'm scheduled to fly into Aberdeen with my two kids at 18:00 tomorrow evening and then get a train down to Glasgow.
I'm kind of hoping the flight gets cancelled as I suspect there is more likely to be rail disruption than flight disruption. Then I'm stuck trying to find accommodation for me and the kids somewhere between Aberdeen and Glasgow.
Wish me luck!
scotrail advertising several services cancelled from tomorrow evening (not the aberdeen/glasgow route), but speed restrictions will be in place on all routes
Yep, even if the plane goes there's no way I'm getting to Glasgow tonight. On the bright side there seems to be a fair number of hotel rooms available but no point in booking anything until I'm on the tarmac in Aberdeen.
At least it's too windy for drones...
Latest forecast shows the strongest winds coming through early evening. Head west and the gusts are predicted at nearly 90mph, which are the kinds of winds that tear roofs off. Hoping we don’t get a power cut.
Meant to be travelling to Dyfi this evening for tomorrow and Sunday. I am wondering if the place will even be open tomorrow and whether its worth the 7 hour-ish round trip to get there and back for the weekend even if it is open!
I should have been on the motorway on my way to Aberfoyle to work at Gravelfoyle 10 but it has indeed been cancelled. It's a wet and windy weekend in Northampton for me instead. Gutted.
Mountain biking weekend in the lakes for me, already cancelled today's ride ☹️
On the plus side, my group are staying in a pub 😁
@Kilo that really is a baby Guinness or Ireland's largest Aperol Spritz 🤣
Large aperol!
Storm Amy is battering the Kerry coast at present, very high winds here now.
Worth firing up the YouTube channel for your local airport and watching some of the decidedly dicey landings going on now.
It's surprising how much an A380 can get blown around the place. They can also generate their own personal cloud from the amount of spray thrown up when they put on the reverse thrust!
We’re right in the middle of it now, wind speeds in excess of 60mph and the whole house is shaking - another hour of this before it starts to abate. We’ve also got a 1.5m storm surge on top of a high tide - if we’d had a spring tide of a metre higher the flood protection barriers installed last year might not have been enough. Hopefully the power will stay on. There’s going to be a lot of trees down most are still in leaf and the ground is saturated.
Perhaps unsurprisingly we're sitting at home rather than on a plane.
Sadly my parents will have to wait a bit longer to see their grandkids for the first time in almost two years 🙁
the whole house is shaking
That's pretty frightening, we had something similar earlier this year, a wind so strong it absolutely roared, fortunately our roof remained intact. Hope all's well.
The house is timber framed with a steel portal and is designed to withstand the wind and weather in these parts - our lounge is Right under the roof so it feels and sounds a lot worse.
The lifeboat is out on a shout due to a yacht slipping it’s anchor - know some of the folks out there so hoping they’re not out there too long.
Power out in a few place and lots of trees down.
Bedroom soaking wet after the wind forced water up through the trickle vents into the room. Never seen that happen before.
Crab apple blown over in the garden (NW Derbyshire). Not much in the big scheme of things but it was a lovely small tree.
8pm. West coast of Skye is the most windy place on the planet by some margin!!!
https://www.windy.com/-Wind-gusts-gust?gust,44.402,1.406,3,m:feMafWQ