Just been for a quick pre storm blast on the roadie. As above - such weird light! Like <<inser tpagan deity of your choice>> has stuck nightshift mode on his phone. Sadly the wind direction wasn't quite where I was hoping for on the way back, so no record breaking climbs or descents.
lovely and warm here in S Wales with a light breeze. It was dark for a long time this morning though and a strange half-light even at 9am. Sadly sky is no more orange than normal here, the steel works beats any Saharan dust cloud every day of the week
It's like nighttime down here!
All gone a bit weird in Brighton.
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Went for a lunchtime run in the forest and it’s was spectacular.. low orange hue, leaves all over the groud, trails loamy and a surreal light.
Thoughts to all those affected, gotta be a worrying time for friends and families out in it..
Kids in Douglas Community School all praying to St. Ophelia this evening. 🙂
From the roof of Twicks 😯
Never seen anything like it. Think a bit of sand is being mixed around up there. My car has a thick layer.
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Driving rain and a bit windy here but still just a pretty standard shitty day for the time being.
Jeez, I hope all the flags survive the day jimjam. 🙂
Definitely sand in the air, my cars covered in it.. 😕
My car has a think layer.
That one of these new self driving cars?
deadlydarcy - MemberJeez, I hope all the flags survive the day jimjam.
No flags round here 😉
seosamh77 - Member
My car has a think layer.
That one of these new self driving cars?
😡 8)
reporting a 3rd person died in ireland cause of this. 🙁
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feeling a *bit* concerned about the wind for my ride home...
Pah, it's hardly much more than a "bit" windy at the moment round the Carrick coastline (sw scotland) with the occasional gust - very disappointing as i have had to hold onto the rocks for support in other storms, certainly not much problem cycling but according to Strava i did smash a 3mile KOM on the way back into town with the wind directly behind me, i knocked 17sec off the current time which is pretty good going for an ebike with 3" plus tyres - i don't think i'll be a dick and upload it though 😉
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Never worry about the flegs, the whole place is turning orange 😆
Starting to get a bit breezy on Arran. Ever so slightly exposed here, it could be an interesting night 🙂
Our chimney is currently lying in prices outside my front window. Not because of the wind but because we knew it was coming. It had developed a bit of a worrying lean so the weather forecast was just the motivation needed to get it taken down. Wasn’t until it was being dismantled that we realised how big it is (was) - must have been a good 12ft tall.
As the wind is starting to rise it interesting that it’s blowing in just the right direction to give the chimney the push it was waiting for. And now we realise how big it was it seems it was poised to land right where I’m sitting now 🙂
^^^ batten down the hatches Mark !
Lunch and a couple of beers in the Old Ship Inn at Low Newton followed by some lively action with buzzfoil kite on the beach for an hour. A decent breeze, no more, yet....
It's very very windy here to the west of Manchester currently. Unbelievably some half-wit has decided that now is a good time to be setting off fireworks nearby 😯
Wee bit windy about 20 minutes ago. Slightly windier now.
We run a weather platform on a pole out in Hayling Bay and on occasion it tops out at about 45knts because it can't spin any quicker, today we were expecting chunks of wind to hit it.. but nothing has materialised, maybe tonight I don't know but it's just been a blustery day after lunch.. knocking on the door of 35knts but aves of 26knts.. so kinda normal for Autumn..
I'm not disappointed, I can only sympathise with those who are having their windows rattled by flying debris...
Just rescued the 14' trampoline off the 7' high hedge - was threatening to flip over onto the cars.
We also have an ex shed.
This afternoons Stornoway ferry has had to berth in Loch Broom waiting for a lull as it failed on 4 attempts to dock. We've a passenger on it awaiting transport to Inverness and a driver now waiting for him in Ullapool.
Calm here in Aviemore though, which is unusual in itself.
Trees down all over the place here, some biguns too!
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Meh. Moved away to the north, who cares now 😉
I have bungeed my wheelie bins and tied up a couple of sunflowers.... Bring it.
Power out for ~60% of the town and 2 big trees down, the piers are closed and only 3 pubs open.
Currently stranded in Belfast after all the flights home were cancelled.
I knew bad weather was forecast but shrugged it off after spending the weekend in shirts and t shirt again. I was wrong. Belfast has pretty much shut down so once I managed to get a hotel roon, a mad rush followed to grab toiletries, fresh pants and a phone charger! By 3:30 the place was like a ghost down.
Windier up the road from you somafunk
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Has cynical built his aerodynamic shed roof yet?
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00:28 for sea foam face.
Basically it was a wee bit windier than it might normally be on a windy day in the autumn.
Donaghadee, Co Down.
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.
That green sky is usually the precursor to a tornado in the States, this storm may spawn one or two twisters, but unlikely to be anything significant.
The huns will be deeply upset.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.
Meh. Moved away to the north, who cares now
Not me 😉 It's just strong gales, it's been this windy loads of times before and will be again before the years out. It's just the source being a hurricane that makes it a big thing.
It's nothing compared to the 1987 'great storm' which had true 100mph+ hurricane force winds for sustained periods with the loss of an estimated 15million trees.
That green sky is usually the precursor to a tornado in the States, this storm may spawn one or two twisters, but unlikely to be anything significant.
Dispite being something we associate with the US apparently the Uk (more particularly England) gets more tornadoes per sq mile than anywhere else in the world.
Interesting fact that.
I probably read it in the Daily Express ( apparently there’s a new miracle tornado that will cure princess Di’s chronic arthritis during the snow-heatwave but immigrants will steal it)
