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Nothing significant happening just north of Brighton, roads are mostly open, garden has a few more leaves in than normal
Even the grim north tends not to have 3" hail
https://twitter.com/christianrmay/status/1719876397106188755
Woken up to blue skies (ish) in Chichester this morning, was a wet night though. Looking at the forecast it's going to be moving this way from late morning maybe?
"No LNER services between Edinburgh and Aberdeen will operate after 10.30am on Thursday until Saturday in both directions."
WTF.
Previous weekends have seen the same for Glasgow-Aberdeen, and north of Perth.
It feels like Scotland has been without a train service for several months now.
Bit breezy and wet in Devon but my organic veg box got delivered overnight so it’s not that bad…
Nothing to report. Just a windy night with heavy rain . No damage to property that I can see. Was a big sea looking at Chimnet with 2mtr waves at high tide. Might go for a wander up the beach in a bit to see what's been happening to the shingle bank
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I’m flying back into Heathrow tomorrow, and whilst strong, the wind is westerly, so down the runway
Let us know the landing time and we’ll watching your landing on Jerry’s Big Jet TV!
must have been lucky in N London. I woke to rain on the windy and a few gusts at 3am but now it just normal rain and no wind. News seems to suggest we are in the eye of the storm. My friend in Ipswich has 3ft water flooding his road again.
No water doing through our bathroom ceiling, I’ll go up there and see if the towels we used to pack around the leaking area are wet in a minute.
I'm amazed, not just by this but by NA hurricanes, etc. For such massive weather systems that the effects can still be quite localised. I've no doubt the weather in the CI's was horrific overnight, and off Poole and Bournemouth right now is quite different but we're only 100 miles away and there's barely enough to move leaves on the trees.
But as noted earlier, it's not actually here yet
I’m assuming it hasn’t reached East Sussex yet as even next doors bins haven’t blown over
Indeed it seems to me as someone far further north that 60-80mph in a winter storm is extreme but not that unusual further north?
Hurricane Bawbag - we sat in a building listening to sustained windspeed of 105mph with gusts of 140mph recorded at the nearby weather station.
EDIT: perhaps this is a 'Northern & Scottish' storm currently lashing southern England?
As this storm is in the south, there is of course absolute blanket coverage of every wind gust on the BBC…
Oh give over.. a hurricane, with tornadoes in it, in the UK and you're bringing that one out again?
I think they were in Jersey.
It's not a hurricane, that requires not just severe gusts, but sustained windspeeds at that level.
As this storm is in the south, there is of course absolute blanket coverage of every wind gust on the BBC…
Strange that news is reporting on the unusual, perhaps they should swap to reporting on the mundane and run of the mill instead.
The one time all those Chelsea tractors would have been perfect for the school run and they shut the bloody schools!
As this storm is in the south, there is of course absolute blanket coverage of every wind gust on the BBC…
Oh give over - storm Babet got blanket coverage as well, mainly impacting the North.
looking scary in Jersey through the night!
https://twitter.com/Met4CastUK/status/1719980135640596782
Was pretty ferocious here in Cornwall around 4.30am this morning. A lot of trees down blocking roads in my local area.
Been for a beach walk.sea overtopped the manmade shingle bank but only caused limited erosion, the receding waves scavenges the shingle.
No damage to property that I could see. Thing is we usually get 40mph winds a few times each winter so fences etc are built to allow for this.
Lots of seaweed and flotsam up on top of the beach and some big lumps of water moving around.
Wind increasing again, lots of schools off locally but no need tbh although having seen the forecast and depth of the low pressure it probably was the right decision.
So, is £450 to fix a single roof tile reasonable (MIL in Cornwall)? I told my wife that probably, this morning, it was all she was going to get!
So, is £450 to fix a single roof tile reasonable
I just had a 1-2yr repair of my roof valley quoted at £475, a full replacement valley for £11000.
I think yours ia expensive!
So, is £450 to fix a single roof tile reasonable (MIL in Cornwall)? I told my wife that probably, this morning, it was all she was going to get!
Dynamic pricing innit.
There were 1.2 million homes without power in northern France an hour ago. .They're getting it far worse than us.
It looks like coastal stretches of Belgium and The Netherlands will be experiencing peak gusts mid afternoon.
This is not the great storm of 1987, it's not as severe. More like it's annoying cousin with a flick knife and a bad attitude
Is the low pressure centre was 50-80 miles north it'd be very nasty indeed
So, is £450 to fix a single roof tile reasonable (MIL in Cornwall)? I told my wife that probably, this morning, it was all she was going to get!
1 tile = a dozen more lifted, replace patch of sarking or underfelt, replace all 12 tiles and make good, all from an expensive set of ladders and while being able to extract a few more quid due to the demand today...
Dynamic pricing innit.
Pretty much what I thought!
Not convinced he will do the job to Matt's spec though. I have a feeling the magic sealant gun will be applied to the problem.
Two ridge tiles on quite a high apex replaced last year after a storm was £140 - and these need cementing. I replaced the two broken tiles the ridge hit on the way down myself as they were within reach of my ladder for £6!
I just had a 1-2yr repair of my roof valley quoted at £475,
Slow workers. But a bargain in terms of hourly.
So, is £450 to fix a single roof tile reasonable
I used to pay £80 per slate in brighton, for a house with easy access, cash in hand, at the weekend, 10 years ago. Assuming that's doubled due to inflation and doubled again for someone to come out during working hours and put it through the books, you're not far off.
That said, teh tiles should overlap well, so a single tile out of place isn't an immediate concern
Thanks - we're in North Yorkshire, she's in Cornwall, and she'll throw a loop if it isn't sorted immediately, so that's the price.
It's not the most opportune evening to be doing the planned firelighting with the Scouts, I know that much...
It's quiet in Devon (too quiet!)
In fact, looking out the window right now, there is zero wind! Quite a lot of rain though.
Looks like the storm passed us by to the south.
^ You were almost certainly in the eye of the storm. It’s rolled directly over you.
Just cycled home. Bracing.
My father cannot get hold of his sister and my cousins in Guernsey currently. His sisters house is well sheltered and very old, but one of my cousins owns a property nearly on Cobo bay and facing the sea....
And having chatted to my elderly father, he had been calling the two landlines all day and getting worried... When I suggested WhatsApp, he got a response immediately....
Winchester
According to my colleagues it was merely a breezy and wet day there, nothing particularly unusual.
As this storm is in the south, there is of course absolute blanket coverage of every wind gust on the BBC…
#rollseyes…
Watching the BBC news from parts of southern England, and particularly Jersey, most of the south-west and Wales got off fairly lightly, the central depression pressure registered the lowest November pressure in climate records. It seems very one-sided, the highest winds concentrated to the south/south-east. Jersey suffered terrible damage, entire roofs torn off walls torn down, incredible luck nobody was injured. It certainly looked like a tornado spawned and tore through part of the town, a not uncommon occurrence in a storm like that.
I have witnessed zero storm excitement in Fareham, Hampshire. Will I get some action tonight or has just passed us by?
Tornadoes are severe convective storms not extra-tropical cyclones
Yes, but the report is of an actual tornado as well as all the wind. It does rather look like one:
They can both occur within these complex disorganised systems but it is certainly not normal, nor expected
The SCS component is on the periphery of the main storm front (if it happens)
There was a tornado from the last storm in Sussex too:
https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/23888858.investigator-describes-damage-caused-littlehampton-tornado/
Back from dog walking. Still bracing.