Met Office Weather Warnings

just so I’m clear, are weather warnings good or bad now?

Ok, I’ll eat humble pie here. Lost the roof on our temporary storage unit. 🤦🏻‍♂️

Looking at early charts it probably came from the south (depends on the time it occurred)

I was 5 minutes late last night picking my daughter up from swimming. The pool is at the end of a single track lane. A tree had blown down blocking the road, all the people’s cars that arrived on time were trapped. School will be shut today until the tree’s cleared – 26 buses according to the caretaker.

This is in the rolling Chiltern hills.

just so I’m clear, are weather warnings good or bad now?

Apparently, it depends on how stupid you are.

There was a short period of a Red WW covering much of the Beauly Firth and Moray Firth early this morning. Gusts in excess of 100mph were recorded on land. It seems to have calmed down a bit since then.

Good, although if the Met Office can’t pinpoint the exact minute it’s forecasted to arrive then apparently bad.

Broken window in the shed here in Surrey, there was a small crack in it due to enthusiastic basketballing, but the wind was directly at it and has flexed it that the crack is now right across. Prob not worth a claim, I’ll do that myself with a perspex window, for now good old duck tape.

And the other casualty is my fake wasp’s nest that is now very tattered. Will have to get the ladder later and get it down, don’t want the evil stripy bastards seeing it in papery ruin and realising it’s just a decoy. It really worked all summer, and I bought two so will have to replace it in the spring!

This is Surrey btw.

Once the data has been verified/checked by the UK MetOfiice it will be available to check this 

The Met provided it. 

I believe ElShalimo means they will get observation data and verify it. Comparing what your models predicted with observations of what happened is a key part of forecasting and continual model development.

Yes

Also immediate reports need to be verified and go through quality control processes as per local meteo agency and world meteorological organisation methodologies. The reason is that sometimes sensors fail, false readings etc etc. 

I’m going with it’s probably accurate, the Arwen one of 98mph is recorded as such. Given it’s part of the RAF early warning system and flight radar I reckon it’s calibrated pretty well.

No great losses round my way this morning. Opposite neighbour has lost his fence, My PVC roof has stayed put for now. Didn’t get much sleep though it was pretty noisy.

Had to drop the van off for it’s MOT earlier this morning, thankfully while the winds had dropped, or so I thought.

the usual 25 min bike ride back turned into 45 mins of loghopping and headwind charging.

riding along a canal path into a strong headwind kinda reminded me of riding up a ‘hill’ on a turbo trainer.

Fair few trees down and lots of debris, the odd trampoline and the river is very very full.

No big deal here in Cardiff, at my house anyway.  The most annoying is the pair of sofas that our neighbours have had stacked outside their house for a couple of years.  They covered them with a tarp, which never really protected them, and now there are weeds growing out of the gaps, however the tarp blows around every time it’s windy. I keep going over and tucking it underneath.  They need to call the council to take them away.  The chap said ‘oh I’ve been so busy’ no mate, you are home most of the time on the sick from (ironically) the council sitting on your arse.

Come on Molls. You’ve missed a trick here. You could have popped out during the night, smashed the sofa’s to pieces, distributed the bits all over his garden and then blamed the wind

Or launched them through the neighbour’s window.

Well… the weather warnings helped me plan my weekend perfectly. So it’s a thumbs up from me.

Fun night in our Cumbrian village. The rainfall was nowhere near storm Desmond levels from years ago but the river was higher. A few houses flooded from the river but it is a spate river so it is up and down fast. The ones that get flooded have Karndean downstairs, so move the furinture and squeegee out when the water goes down and they are back up and running. A few houses this time were flooded by water running down the fields going through the houses back to front.

We have a local whatsapp group who were tripping over themselves to be the ones who could help the most. It was quite an enjoyable evening reading the messages with a glass of red and a roaring fire. That might sound callous but when we have sixty miles per hour winds, a high river damaging the roads and pulling banks apart and it is pitch black it is the time to stay in your house. Even if you are in the house with water inside you are safe. I live by the river and saw a car trying to drive down the road on the other side, it realised that it would not get through. The road was part of the fast flowing river, it did a three point turn and was so close to being washed away.

This morning the singletrack road that I drive down had a manhole cover that was lifted out of the hole. It is maybe ten feet deep manhole with ladder and the whole thing would have been 1ft under water last night. Terrible picture

There were trees down.

One place where the river crosses a road when it is in flood a car had tried to drive through it and was washed into the field. It looks like they got tangled in the fencing and escaped through the drivers window (assuming they escaped)

The point of my rambling is, when it gets bad stay indoors.

Hopefully we will get electricity tomorrow

just so I’m clear, are weather warnings good or bad now?

Apparently, it depends on how stupid you are.

Weather warnings are useful for stupid people?

Or are they useful for clever people?

I find them quite useful which I suspect might make me stupid.

Although probably not quite as stupid as the people who aren’t aware that weather warnings can be switched off and/or ignored.

Come on Molls. You’ve missed a trick here.

Yea, problem is that they have been permanently sodden for nearly 6 months and the council won’t take soggy sofas.  I think I should just hack them to bits with an axe and let him take them to the tip in his own bloody council van which is also parked here all the time.

Or fly tip it with a handy copy of his council tax bill attached

Two dead. It hasn’t been made clear whether they were stupid people or clever people. And Storm Jocelyn en route.

Maybe they forgot to look out of the window?

Power lines down no electricity all day. Perhaps back overnight? A1 closed East of here and no trains running last night.

neighbours bin just flown down the road 😕 seem blowing harder than Isha at the moment, bloody warm for 10pm in Late January

Yeah temperature climbing all day, peaked at 14C here about 8pm.
In contrast to yesterday where we had a very localised thunder lighting and hail storm about 5pm. Only lasted a few minutes but put down an inch of pea size hail.
(North Yorkshire)