In Aberdeenshire, all but one school, Tough School, near Kirkton of Tough, were closed on Friday morning.
Fake news - it's shut, along with every other school around here (it's only a few kms away from me)
Just been out, there's chunks of people's roofs missing, mainly ridge tiles, it ain't over here yet :-/
bit blowy north Glasgow here.
neighbours fence is down. my covered pergola has about 20% of the cover missing and sat in the other neighbours garden. Think that percentage may increase.
east dunbartonshire council cancelled the bin collection today, thankfully.
some of the big trees are swaying about like drunk Ents .
glad I flew home from glasgow yesterday.
lovely day down in the south-west.
Got a new roof - it leaks. First rain in weeks (it leaked the whole time we were in Patagonia and trashed the kitchen) and the repairs failed again. To their credit the roofers came out this morning, looked inside but no way were they going up on the roof.
Still come across Arwen problems when out - masses of windthrow still uncleared in places.
This must be payback for the lovely weather in Tierra del Fuego we had at Christmas.
Some of my gutters and tiles taken off the corner of the roof here in Troon. Saw some of our cavity wall insulation follow the gutter as it blew past the window so presume the soffits are goosed as well.
Bit blowy here in Falkirk - red warning area. Sounds breezy but no unduly so and making you think it's not too bad, but every so often there's an absolute beast of a gust that rattles the house! Currently switching between home schooling mini-a11ys (schools very well organised via Teams...) and pre-planned DIY.
Not forecast to peak until later this afternoon though...
Mrs/Dr a11y headed into work with extra meals and a sleeping bag just in case colleagues on late shift don't make it in. 'Mon the frontline medics.
Pffft a bit of wind in NI and Scotland and it’s all over the news, can’t move for coverage of how bad it’s meant to be. Wouldn’t be like that if it was down here in England. Slightest gust up there and they make it a red weather warning; everything grinds to a halt! Didn’t hear us lot make a fuss in the last storm. We’re tough down here, my house took off and landed in a muddy field, I didn’t even bat an eyelid. Blimmin Northern softies…blimmin BBC bias etc etc etc etc etc
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Still come across Arwen problems when out – masses of windthrow still uncleared in places.
I've got lovely sycamore floorboards in the living room courtesy of Arwen (and more of it tucked away to do the kitchen floor later)
Wasn't too bad here at the end of the tweed valley but it seems to be kicking up a bit more now with some stronger blasts.
Can anyone remember the URL of that website that shows wind data in real time?
www.xcweather.co.uk
Windy.com maybe...
@johndoh there's a lot of them, but the one you might mean is this one: https://earth.nullschool.net/
Have a look at nullschool, I think its live
It feels like perhaps the worst has passed in the Dublin area - but it may come back around I guess. I was up at 1am stopping water pouring through our ceiling though - blocked roof drain backed up over the flashing.
Otherwise, I haven't yet found too much other damage
Edit: hmm, looking at those maps it's clearly still v windy out there, just with slightly fewer gusts than a couple of hours ago
I’ve preemptively pulled my fence down just to beat the rush.
@Northwind I just stole this joke for the office group chat.
TWO PEOPLE BELIEVED ME.
windy.com was the one I was thinking of - thank you!
I don’t know what you’re all worried about – as you can see the storm stops at the border, youse’ll all be fine!
Ulster says NO to storm Éowyn ?
this one is quite neat. you can see the wind farm output figures....
https://renewables-map.robinhawkes.com/#4.73/54.18/-4
Getting very bad here now. Neighbours shed roof went a few minutes ago. Lots of banging noises going on.
Feel a bit bad due to real problems with it elsewhere but I do like a bit of strong wind... here in Manchester it's a bit gusty, up to 60mph gusts according to the Met Office. Sitting in the car earlier, in a sheltered side street, and the whole thing was rocking from side to side.
Love seeing the birds out in it. A pigeon just shot past overhead at something approaching the speed of sound. Spent a few minutes earlier watching a crow playing - it would fly into the wind and then get blown backwards, fly forwards again, get blown around (speeding backwards upside down at one point!) and looked like it was having great fun.
our local leisure centre roof has blown off, it's unrelenting here, still strong gusts, squally rain. I hate winter 🙁
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Getting very bad here now. Neighbours shed roof went a few minutes ago. Lots of banging noises going on.
Met office here has it currently 48 gusting 88, peaking between 12 and 1 at 50 gusting 92... house is creaking and groaning...
just round the corner, Mossneuk park
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Apparently not supposed to be hitting us that hard here in southampton, but I had a shed door ripped off the kids left open, a single plank from the fence blown off across the road and the massive post holding up my drive gates snap so the gate is now at a funky angle.
Somehow the 100year old roof is still holding on fine (!)
The news sites always show people out in this weather...with umbrellas!?? How can you get to adulthood without realising umbrellas+wind=NO?
Not too bad here just north of Glasgow but we have decent shelter. Firsty from the Kilpatricks to the west then higher houses in the next street upwind. In the garden feels like a gusty 20-30mph but obviously higher winds on treetops on nearby higher ground.
Things starting to fly in coastal East Lothian.
I'm in a sheltered valley near the Tweed Valley (Stow, in Wedale for the locals) It's fine here. Quite windy, one wheely bin has gone over but that's it.
Just heading off for a run in the Moorfoots to see how windy it is on the tops. I will be avoiding the woods though, I remember the damage Arwen did and I've no desire to be in the middle of that if we get a repeat, but so far no sign of it being anything like, not even had the power drop off yet.
I've had three of those mobile telephone warnings now, which seems excessive. I know what it's like now and I've checked the forecast. I think there's an element of crying wolf there, save it for something major.
I’ve had three of those mobile telephone warnings now, which seems excessive
I'm currently sitting in the middle of the peak. It's horrendous.
Made it home from the hospital. Few trees down on the road (not big ones) and the car got tw*tted by a not tiny airborne branch but doesn't seem to have damaged it. Installed in the gaff with recovering wife and a rattled wide eyed cat.
The sustained wind here in Edinburgh is not too extraordinary, but every minute or so a gust hits the house and it sounds like a train has hit it. Kind of exciting! Doubt we will see any damage but doubtless others will. Hope my shed renovation isn't expedited.
Edinburgh about to get the full 90mph gusts now according to Ventusky.
Peaking here in North Yorks at a pleasant 70mph gust.
Shropshire felt very windy earlier on, had to call the Police on the local motorway as a huge branch was blocking the outside lane of the motorway causing all kinds of swerving etc from people doing 70+ mph
I have to say.... ****ed roof and paralleagrammed shed not withstanding I'm counting our blessings a bit - at what is probably the peak of the winds here (I hope) the current low tide looks an awful lot like high tide. So things would have been pretty bad if the tide had been in just now.
North North Yorkshire here, just outside the dales. Lost a ridge tile (long sandtoft type thing) which took out some tiles on the way down. Very, very windy. Has to be easily 70mph I'd say, possibly more.
Getting 55-60 mph gusts in the new town Edinburgh. Will see how it goes.
Anyone here live near Cawdor?
Strictly speaking, they live in Forres now.
Kintyre breezy right now..
was bin day in our part of Milton Keynes..... so carnage this morning even with 50mph winds
The local facebook page idiots are out in force
One rocket scientist wanted to know if McDonalds was open as the kids are off school and she wanted to take them there for a treat
Dozens of people desperate to know if Aldi is open, what with all the essential life saving items they sell
Forth Road Bridge RWIS 112mph at 1310 local time
I’ve had three of those mobile telephone warnings now, which seems excessive. I know what it’s like now and I’ve checked the forecast. I think there’s an element of crying wolf there, save it for something major.
But that's the trouble with people, their expectations and the difficulties in predicting exactly where a storm will create its most powerful gusts. I'd rather forecasters erred on the side of caution and then if I'm tonked on the head by a falling tree, effectively going against advice, I can lay there breathing my last knowing it was on my terms. 🙂
Very very breezy on the Fife riviera, burntisland, the felts just ripped right off my shed. Very annoying!
