I was 12 for the 87 storm. As ever, I slept blissfully through it, got up and went to school. There were some trees down and the roads were quiet, but school was open. Only about 50% of the kids actually made it to school though.
One that didn't was Julian. He'd been trapped in his mum's cars passenger seat, next to her corpse after a tree fell on their car the night before.
🙁
its not news that east lancs is still in the dark ages 😉Same in East Lancs. A very weird yellow tinge and it doesn't seem to have got properly light at all
The sky's a weird yellow colour down here in the mean streets of Cirencester too.
One that didn't was Julian. He'd been trapped in his mum's cars passenger seat, next to her corpse after a tree fell on their car the night before.
🙁 indeed.
Starting to pick up a bit now. Weather on the way in.
@Scapegoat - that was the Capella windstorm. Another nasty bugger that ripped thru Europe causing nearly 100 deaths and an awful lot of damage.
It was probably the worst recorded storm of the modern era until the '87 & '90 storms occurred.
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Salford.
Current observations:
Wind speed: 2 mph E
Temp: 18.7 C
Dewpoint 15 C
Humidity: 79%
Baro: 1009.3 falling
Hope people of Ireland respect the weather and the advice they've been given.
Yellow sky in Birmingham. Warm too, at 18deg
Sky is also a sickly yellow here on the coast in sw-scotland but no wind at all,
I remember the 87 storm. I was watching tiles getting stripped off the houses opposite us and our big apple tree fell over blocking us in. Not that there was anywhere to go, our secondary school lost a few roofs so was shut for quite a while.
I was in my first year at Durham Univ, having gone up from Oxfordshire early October. Days before mobile phones so I had to call my parents at 7pm every Sunday night with a phone card they'd post up to me in the week. She was frantic to find out if her little boy had survived the storms and of course I'd seen nothing, and with no internet, TV, etc., it had barely even registered that the south was suffering. I think she felt a bit let down TBH.
(frankly, the hurricane could have passed through my Hall of Residence for all we'd have noticed such was the level of consciousness in that first term)
Yeah, it's all sepia here in Bristol.
Low cloud/fog here in Ripon, not a breath of wind.
It's times like this when I'm really glad I bought a house on top of a hill.....
Strange light here in Liverpool too...
Flying to IoM later this afternoon - what are the chances of it being cancelled...
bakey - your flight will be cancelled.
Wind now increasing - 8 mph , high gust of 19 at 11:16.
(data from my Davis weather station on my chimney)
we really have taken talking about the weather to a higher level
Well I've just put three loads of washing on the line, so I'm hoping for a breeze at least. Very pale light here, 17 deg and 92% humidity. South Yorks.
I remember the 87 storm, 6ft wide beech tree trunks snapped in my parents garden, no power and trees down all over the place, managed to get a lift to Purley by a mate, took hours and we used byways and fields to get there. Got to the station only to be told "no trains".
Sun's peeping out in NW Scotland. A ripple of a breeze every now and again.
Pending apocalypse here as sky turned orange.. 😯
http://www.bathchronicle.co.uk/news/bath-news/updates-red-hurricane-sun-over-632401
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Look at the barometric pressure on the south west coast of Eire!!
That's 962 mbar. A real depression.
In Salford it's currently 1008.8 mbar.
bakey - MemberStrange light here in Liverpool too...
Flying to IoM later this afternoon - what are the chances of it being cancelled...
Its very strange the light is almost like its CGI, the BBC NW news did say this morning to expect flights to be cancelled
[url= https://www.gov.im/categories/travel-traffic-and-motoring/isle-of-man-airport/flight-arrivals/ ]See here[/url]
Following events on [url= http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/hurricane-ophelia/hurricane-ophelia-latest-updates-as-worst-storm-to-hit-ireland-in-more-than-50-years-lands-36230314.html ]Independent.ie[/url]
The TD (=MP?) Danny Healy-Rae came up on the stream.
[url= http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/hurricane-ophelia/hurricane-ophelia-has-nothing-to-do-with-climate-change-kerry-td-danny-healyrae-36231358.html ]He might be correct.[/url]
[url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-40863737 ]Or just a nutter.[/url]
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Deeply strange quality to the light outside here in the West of Scotland. Only seen it a few times before. Slightly green tinge to it. Eerie.
The orange light today is Saharan Desert dust in the atmosphere bought up by the winds fron the South. Go and check out your car, mine is now covered in a layer of fine sand! :-O
It's went eerily dark on the coast here in sw-scotland and the birds have all ****ed off, my garden is usually full of the cheery little buggers fighting over the various bird feeders but it's spookily quiet at the moment with not a breath of wind.
After this build up i hope it's going to be a good one, i plan to head out to Carrick bay later to experience the wind n' sea spray.
It's now almost sunny with patches of blue sky, almost like someone turned the dimmer switch up!
it looks like nearly midnight here! 😆
sky / light going pinky-orange here now too (Farnham, SW Surrey)
I'm taking the mutt and the kites down to Stokes Bay after lunch just for shit and giggles 😆
That's 962 mbar. A real depression.In Salford it's currently 1008.8 mbar.
Who’d have thought there could be anywhere more depressing than Salford 🙂
My empty wheelie bin just blew over.
sky / light going pinky-orange here now too (Farnham, SW Surrey
Hopefully Mrs PP had the washing in by now. It was lovely drying weather this morning. (Farnborough)
Here in W London it’s benn a beautiful morning but it’s closing over and going a tad orange now. Could be blowy one on the M3 on the bike on the way home!
to experience the wind n' sea spray.
Famous last words.
forget the sting jet someone's spotted a twister...
[url= https://twitter.com/BeWarmers/status/919626031547518977 ]twister[/url]
Winds still 12knts but gone S'thly....and the sky is a lovely shade of Orange and Grey.
Quite fitting for Autumn.
ConFCall over Skype with work looks like I've just been in a tanning booth. 😆
I have bottled it and removed the net and mat from the trampoline.
I'm not one for conspiracy theorys but is there some news the government is trying to bury today?
Seems to be a lot of fuss about a bit more wind than usual 😕
Had a few showers this morning near Derby, but now have a strange "perma dusk" light.
Breeze getting up, washing starting to dry.
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I'm not one for conspiracy theorys but is there some news the government is trying to bury today?
I don’t think they can keep this hurricane going for the next 4 years
It's ruined my hair
No wind yet, but its perfect weather for vampires here in Dundee
Ireland getting pelted with it just now, they're getting the brunt of it start off the atlantic.
Cork city stadium. 130mph gusts
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Douglas community school, below, in cork losing it's roof. 😯
https://twitter.com/BeWarmers/status/919901858302496768
