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Heathrow Met Office are reporting 30mph winds with 50mph gusts.
Should be an interesting experience for those that are flying!
Just dropped OH off at Heathrow. She hates flying, I gather it’s not so bad in a massive airliner.
Was probably more dangerous negotiating the motorway morons @7am, followed by low flying wheelie bins in our street.
Probably belongs in the other thread, but the wind is all over the news and it’s always the same people’s rubbish I have to clean up from our drive when their bin opens or blows into the road.
I lie our bins down with the lid against the wall if it’s going to be stormy, or move them to the side of the house.
Tempted to empty our bin in their garden.
Im on the Berkshire/Wiltshire/Hampshire borders, was pretty windy a few hours ago, it woke me up, but it's all calmed down now. I'm driving to Brixham,South Devon at lunchtime.
Just dropped OH off at Heathrow. She hates flying, I gather it’s not so bad in a massive airliner.
MrsMC said it was a bumpy ride into Heathrow yesterday, so today should be good. BA were unable to serve hot drinks on the flight due to elf n safety.
There are various live streams on YouTube from several UK airports at the moment. They're usually quite entertaining in weather like this.
Just search for "[your local airport] live stream"
Isn’t the Heathrow one Jerry Dyer, aka the founder of Dirt?
I was almost underwhelmed landing at Bristol from Newcastle yesterday evening, not much more bumpy than an average flight.
Seatbelt sign didn’t go off and no drinks service through, must be bad for easyJet to turn down the revenue.
All quiet up Manchester way. Had rain overnight but nothing that wakes you. It's expected this afternoon here.
Wind is pretty much from the west so shouldn't feel anything as they'll land going headwind. As that's a sadly normal windspeed round here we now have a pair of near perpendicular runways to cut down on vomit
I hope you started a fight with the air crew for not supplying you with the required Stella and Pringles?
Wind is pretty much from the west so shouldn’t feel anything
At Manchester? Absolutely not, it's a bang on crosswind. Currently NW winds, 18kt, gusting 30 at the moment.
Mrs B is up in Keswick. Its a bit wild, apparently. The market has been cancelled as nobody wants to get killed by a flying artisan sourdough loaf
Never dissapointed by these threads flushing out the Scottish hardmen who accuse anyone daunted by 90mph winds as being soft.
U OK hun?
South Lanarkshire, pleasant dry and calm day, hardly a breeze and earlier rain stopped an hour or so back and it’s brightening up.
Local gravel ride in the morning hopefully
Hands up who’s going to sell Christmas trees in a hurricane with the Beavers?
Struggling to understand the euphemism.
Oi! I'm Irish.
In the Bannau Brechiniog. Devestation in the forest opposite, like a tornado has gone through. It also took out a massive Oak on the valley road, which means we are stuck here for several days. The electric is off (estimate repair time 11 pm) but the phone like is still up so I have old skool BT internet. It is at times like this I am glad I invested in battery storage, solar and a micro hydro system. Sat here with fan heaters and all lights on trying to use up a surplus of energy!
It is at times like this I am glad I invested in battery storage, solar and a micro hydro system. Sat here with fan heaters and all lights on trying to use up a surplus of energy!
Glad you're OK- that sounds like a peak STW thread right there.
Remarkably quiet here, in the south lakes, breezy but nowhere near storm force, maybe nw is the one direction our house is sheltered from. Going for a walk in a mo, see what it's like once were out on the fell.
Get that Oak processed before someone else does!
@Drac - Sea's wild here on the coast. 50 mph wind with 70 mph gusts. Nothing like Arwen mind.
I oiled and ran my genset a couple of weeks ago. So I can run my oil central heating, cook with an air fryer and gas camping stove.
Not getting caught out with the power cuts this time.
The map is in km/h it is from Wetter online.de
The values are observation data from meteo stations. It is unverified as it's live data and not gone through a rigourous QA process but it's good enough for this discussion.
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Look at Spitzenböen (Tag) - peak daily gust
The Dutch are making good use of the storm by holding their Annual Cycling Headwind Championships today!
https://www.zeeland.com/en/live-work/nk-tegenwindfietsen
Having just moved to Scotland can I now pretend to be a hard man, unflappable in the face of stormy weather?
I just took the dog for a walk (well, one of them - the old dog was having none of it, must still be too English) to the sea. The wind was strong up on the hills, and the dog looked hilarious. Nobody else was about.
It wiz nae bother.
Wind forecast speeds here in east Cardiff were 72mph gusts which is a good 20 higher than anything I've seen before. However since we had a warning everyone got out and secured their wheelie bins and garden furniture which was great, there has been no damage in my immediate vicinity apart from the annual clear out of rotten fences. I went out at 4am to make sure that the banging wasn't our meter cabinet door - it wasn't, but the neighbours' was flapping so I taped it up.
92mph gusts recorded in Aberdaron where we were this summer. A few downed trees on local Cardiff roads but nothing more I can find online. Tomorrow we need to go to Lampeter, but it looks ok provided the M4 reopens or the flooding on the A470 recedes.
I just took the dog for a walk in Bristol, lots of people doing the same, I guess because Bristolians are harder than Scots.
I’m 10 miles east of Carmarthen and the winds didn’t drop at 11am as forecast - in fact they’ve continued to get worse. We lost a handful of roof tiles at 2pm and it’s forecast to be gusting up to 65mph until the end of Sunday so I’m fully expecting to lose a few more. I’ve already left messages with a few roofers so we’ll see if anyone gets back to me.
The end of our roof's Facia is peeling off here in a windy part of Bristol, and quite a few roof tiles missing from nearby houses on a walk down to the shops. Storm Bert brought down a few trees and fences so I think that limited the damage done by this one.
It’s really ****in windy on the North Devon coast. Gusts recorded around 80mph earlier. Maybe around 50 now. Can’t remember or being this windy and for as long in my 20 years here.
lots of minor damage, few trees down on roads and Barnstaple Motel ( which was supposed to host our works Xmas party tonight ) has lost its roof.
Sea is huge. Bideford bay buoy recorded 79 feet of swell at 3 am this morning.
we lost power at 8am and supposedly won’t get it back for another 24 hours.
Genuine question, when people say 'you OK hun?' are they asking out of a genuine concern for the person, to suggest that the person is a snowflake, or because the comment the person made has hit a nerve?
Bideford bay buoy recorded 79 feet of swell at 3 am this morning.
Assuming that's a true reading, and not the buoy getting flipped over or whatever as per @jam-bo earlier today, then Crikey Blimey. Surf's proper up.
Nothing of any interest in Edinburgh. I don't know what all the fuss is about 🙂
Fairy 'nuff
Still massive though. Just not Perfect Storm massive.
To be fair the buoy reading is leaping all over the place so you are probably right that it’s not a true reading and is probably getting tossed around by the wind
That said surf lines model is saying the swell was 18 @ 12 seconds and the beaches have white water as far as the eye can see so it’s definitely chunky.
Bodhi would probably go……. ?
Bideford bay buoy recorded 79 feet of swell at 3 am this morning.
Plausible, considering the Bristol Channel has the second highest tidal range in the world at 50ft, so given a brisk wind behind an incoming tide, it could add another 20-30 ft, I’d guess.
It’s still pretty windy here in Chippenham, 24-32mph NW, gusting to 56mph, apparently. This was at the start of Avenue La Flèche, the bypass around Chippenham town centre at around 3.30 this afternoon. The tree surgeons came up from Dorset…
The tree is actually rotten at the base, considering how busy that road is, it’s a miracle it didn’t come down on a car or motorcycle.
I’d guess.
incorrectly. Tides and surges act over periods in the order of hours, wind waves over periods in the order of seconds. tidal waves have nothing to do with tides and act over periods in the order of minutes.
Meteotsumanis are my favourite but super obscure..
My neighbour’s ridge tiles blew off too and landed on his SUV… still no electricity in the village (and won’t be for a while) so my aged mum sat all night with my Exposure Torro upright in a cup aimed into a lampshade, on its lowest setting it’s good for hours… worked really well.
Some of next doors ridge tiles have gone today, luckily I'd had mine re-done two weeks ago, so fingers crossed. Lots of trees down, lanes and even major roads flooded in places, low lying parts of area will be crapping it for the next couple of high tide surges with the stupid amounts of rainfall draining away and the wind.
Charged my Bluetti battery and got my gas stove ready for power cuts, few areas around here are already without.
Had a power cut in Hampshire yesterday (lots of places nearby still out) but electricity only back at weak strength. So half of lighting not working and appliances at half-power. Had no idea that was possible. Have reset the fuse box but that's not improved things.