Due to fly back to LBA tomorrow afternoon, kind of hoping that the flight will be delayed until Saturday
It'll be a normal day at LBA. Windiest cow shed in the UK.
Just like Arwen then. Oh wait sorry no. Nothing like Arwen where they didn’t prepare anything and huge areas went without the basics amenities for days.
I'll let you into a secret, they already had all that kit, they didn't buy it specially. Government announcement truth adjacent shocker.
@stue - took the kids up to watch some planes landing at LBA on a windy Sunday a couple of weeks ago. You'll be glad I didn't take a video 😳
Not one of them landed in a straight line...
I hope every local news presenter has a warm coat it's great when they get sent out to shout into a furry mic telling people to stay at home.
I used to fly in and out of LBA fairly regularly. The best bit was when you started going downhill before getting airborne. Think Lukla but less scenic
A mate of mine flew in and the pilot had to abort three landings before finally getting the wheels on the ground. That was about 15 years ago and my mate has since refused to board a plane!
Our next door neighbours have scaffolding with a top hat on that wasn’t sounding great during Dudley the other night.
Yeah. That's us. Top floor flat in a mansion block with a big old scaffold maybe up 20m from ground level. The scaffolder just phoned me to tell me the cunning plan is to cut through the monarflex if it is getting bad.
Wonder what it'll be like by Sunday - I have to pick my sister up from the airport, assuming her flight makes it over here and lands in one piece. Imagine it might be quite a bumpy approach!
@woody2000 I live 20min walk from the airport and have often seen some of the landings there,which is way I'm hoping that the flight will be delayed
I've got to travel from Cardiff to Bristol then drive a double deck curtain side truck all day, tomorrow is going to be interesting to say the least!
I await some poor schmuck from BBC weather stood at a Welsh harbour while reporting how dangerous the weather is ..
The BBC has a studio down Cardiff Bay that they occasionally do weather broadcasts from up on the roof, that could be a little bit entertaining!
BBC Weather is saying 70mph winds in London, which is unheard of
BBC Weather is saying 70mph winds in London, which is unheard of
and we'll never hear the end of it 🙄
Calm before the storm here in South London. I just went out and put extra pallets on top of the tarps over my wood pile. Somehow I've never had a problem, even a few years ago when the scaffolding around the opposite neighbour's house blew over my tarps stay put. I've jinxed that now of course.
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I've battened down every hatch I could find in the garden. Chairs are pre-tipped over.
Just praying that the wind comes from the south as my very big , 80 year old shop windows don’t like it coming from the north or west.
To fully prepare you need to place your garden trampoline on its side on a dual carriageway, or a train track
It said around 70mph earlier today for E.Kent but seems to have dropped down to 65mph now.
I’ll let you into a secret, they already had all that kit, they didn’t buy it specially. Government announcement truth adjacent shocker.
I don’t think anyone thought they did.
Try windguru.cz for all the different forecast models
Its coastal spot based mostly. Ikon7 or wrf3 seems to be the most accurate imo.
Then rpr hurst castle anemometer links into windspeed sites round the uk at weatherfile. Com.
Xcweather for actual windspeed, presure maps and weather past and forcast
Chimet for windspeed by my home
Hayling surfcam for a look at the English' channel in glorious technicolor
and we’ll never hear the end of it 🙄
amazing. The grumbling started before it’s even got windy down here…
On BBC weather, highest wind forecast I can see for tomorrow is Penzance 73mph. Still looking though
Bude. 89mph at 10am
Load of hype. On the west coast of Scotland windiness scale 8 out of 12, kilts may lift and midges can't fly unless really hungry.
Southern softies!
I reckon Severn coast flooding might be the real issue.
Mrs Lister won’t let me go to the blowhole tomorrow (not a euphemism btw!)…apparently I might end up as ‘one of those idiots you hear about on the news’.
Pembroke forecast is 88mph at 10am so she may have a point…
I wonder if most people on this thread understand how hard it is to walk or even remain standing still at these kinds of wind speeds
I do 🙋♀️
Great explanation on BBC newsnight just now why the seriousness of equivalent wind is so much greater down south than in Scotland. Basically it's because it's so rare and the damage is therefore greater. Nothing to do with London softies or the Scottish being hard.
amazing. The grumbling started before it’s even got windy down here…
To be fair the hype started days ago for the south being windy.
I wonder if most people on this thread understand how hard it is to walk or even remain standing still at these kinds of wind speedsYeah
Or deliver a 28 week year old baby with no electric or heating. 🎤🖐🏻
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On BBC weather, highest wind forecast I can see for tomorrow is Penzance 73mph. Still looking though
82mph in the town I live in at 2pm yet the same BBC weather page is showing 43mph 7 miles away where I work that is right on the coast & 7 miles up the coast is 78mph.
Lets just say its going to be bloody windy. Having worked on the Mersey shoreline for 26 years I know all too well what gale force winds are like 😮
I was clearing some drawers out in the garage a week or so ago and found a power kite I bought off Brant / On-One probably 15+ years ago. 6 or 8 foot, I think. Never had it out the bag other than to look at it.
How much is it worth to try a maiden flight tomorrow then?
@csb - it's not that rare, we have short memories or forget the things we don't like
It's a bit like someone saying it's not flooded here in the 12 years I've lived here... It's just an anecdote and doesn't have much merit. What we've observed is not a good representation of what can happen.
In the last 20 years there have been plenty of large powerful windstorms but thankfully they've not directly hit large centres of population. That's just good luck but it lures us into a false sense of security. There are several very large events like this every year across Western Europe. Some cause mayhem, most don't.
It's almost as if most UK residents have forgotten that we live on a very windy rock in the NE Atlantic
On Gower…I think it’s going to be messy
Yes. I usually like wild weather but a forecast of over 90mph winds is unusual. Where I live there is no shelter to speak of (I can see Lundy from the house) so I am feeling nervous this time.
why the seriousness of equivalent wind is so much greater down south than in Scotland
Basically if it’s likely to be blown over then in Scotland it already has been.
For a good example go to Tiree - trees don’t like it there (windsurfers do though)
(I can see Lundy from the house)
I imagine there will be a spectacular surf climbing a good way up the Devils Slide, and no one to witness it
Tie everything down you can. Move plant pots into the garage/house, close all windows, don't leave home until the worst passes. Don't play 90s EuroPop
It's all common sense stuff
Basically if it’s likely to be blown over then in Scotland it already has been.
Aye, depends on wind direction too though. Arwen hit hard not just because it was strong winds, but because it came from the NE.
Basically if it’s likely to be blown over then in Scotland it already has been.
Aye, depends on wind direction too though. Arwen hit hard not just because it was strong winds, but because it came from the NE.
Basically it’s because it’s so rare and the damage is therefore greater. Nothing to do with London softies or the Scottish being hard.
Yup...
Here in southern Germany it's considered windy with 50kmh winds. Not particularly windy, but there'll be lots of broken branches around.
power kite I bought off Brant / On-One probably 15+ years ago. 6 or 8 foot, I think. Never had it out the bag other than to look at it.
How much is it worth to try a maiden flight tomorrow then?
Don't.
Aye, depends on wind direction too though. Arwen hit hard not just because it was strong winds, but because it came from the NE.
Precisely yup. We are unlikely to see much snow here, maybe some inland especially the cheviots but not on the coast as it’s coming from the west.
close all windows
If only we had windows. The new ones are getting fitted on Monday. The old ones went in October. Long story, full of tears.
South East from just west of Bournemouth now in new red warning zone from 1000... The wind in SO18 woke me up just before 0500!
Yeah just saw they changed it and that’s all in a red blob now.
Joy! Driving to Bournemouth to work will be interesting…