Storm A Brewing Down South

90 mph gusts reported just on iow. Not a breeze here in deepest Derbyshire!

Spoke to my parents in Surrey earlier. Two pieces of bread had blown off the bird table leaving only a couple of pieces. They had grave concerns that any would be left on the table by morning.

In Chatham, Kent. Just about to ride to work and it looks pretty windy out. Looks like a head wind too. Damn.

My tiles are thumping up and down and although I can’t see any on the floor, there are bound to be some that are in the gutters.

However I can see the harbour wall across town where that 14yr old was swept away last night, so in perspective, its nothing.

The wind appears to have reached its choppy, flappy, gusty sustained peak here for the moment. MetO concerned about a possible sting in the tail of severe NW gusts at the back of the atorm. My roof timbers are creaking like a galleon at sea.

Where are you? I just peeked out the door, lets just say I won’t be cycling across town, don’t think I’ll walk either. Lift please! I dread daylight and seeing the mess my roof is in…

Averaging over 100mph here…

127mph. 112 consistently.

Drizzle and slight breeze in Cannock…

Quite a number of planes on final approach into heathrow doing interesting aerobatics before engaging full power and climbing out. Actually it’s starting to look like they’ve shut heathrow.
It’s definitely choppy out there.

Just got very windy in the last 15 minutes or so at Heathrow.
Glad I’m not flying anywhere, looks like it’s gonna be a bit rough!

Friggin breezy here (Surrey), lost a few tiles and a tree has come down blocking the road. Just wondering if now is the time to sign up to strava and set a few koms on the way to work…

Worst seems to have past newbury.

Yup west London’s taking a bit of a battering right now, shame as we are loosing slates from the old outhouse roof

Sad news about the Lad getting swept out to sea. 🙁

Rather blowy on the platform just now (chilterns) – the bloke who stands next to me every morning had his packed rucksack blow down the platform! One positive though – we have stood next to each other for four years and today was the first time we spoke. In fact probably the first person i have spoken to on the way to work in years. Might consider nodding to him now. Storm in breaking the ice shocker!

Train seems determined to crawl though.

Think it’s all gone from here now (Somerset), finished around 5:30ish.

Just a bit of rain and wind we’re reasonably well sheltered so nothing worse than a few knocked over wheelie bins here. No doubt there’s a rotten tree or two down though.

Hmm, 40mph gusts for my ride to work!

Of the two Thames crossings in Reading, one is closed. Cue travel chaos for those of us due to take cats to the vets at 10.

very little impact from what I can see here in Malvernshire, but we get quite a bit of protection from the hills most of the time anyway.

FGW trains say that there’s been a lot less disruption than they were expecting, so Im guessing things will be moderately “Normal” by tonight.

this tells a tale

http://www.xcweather.co.uk/GB/observations

Hi all, anyone on from fleet/ farnborough in Hampshire?
I’m overseas at the moment so interested to know how bad the area was hit.

Any update would be appreciated
Thanks

By all accounts it was windy in Somerset last, I didn’t hear a thing

Right I’ve got cycle in soon , should be interesting

Still sunny in sunny Brentwoood but both Essex train lines into town are suspended.

Lucky for me I’m on hols this week…. Although, which clever clogs put the clock back the weekend before half term….. the kids were up at 6 again this morn

very little impact from what I can see here in Malvernshire, but we get quite a bit of protection from the hills most of the time anyway.

Nothing to do with protection from the hills – it didn’t come here
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/observations/pershore-worcestershire#?tab=last24hours&fcTime=1382828400

Took a while to get in – added 15 mins to my 45 min commute. Not as bad as I thought it was going to be to be honest.

You lot must have been forsaken then? they’ve already filled the Ark and set off for the promise land, Barnsley.

Fleet / Farnborough – (I’m in Guildford so this is off eagle radio)

Trees down on several major routes, incl a31, a320, Reading road in fleet, also flooding in Aldershot, on a31, etc. and power out in several places too. Its still blowing now so may be more yet but skies are clearer so I think it’s ‘passed’ in the main.

Then old oak at the end of my garden’s still upright, so all seems mainly well here, but it can be very variable by the sounds of things.

I’m in Farnborough now. Sun poking out from behind the clouds. Wind calming down, lots of debris on the roads but all seems fine. The A331 was very quiet although near Farnborough (coming from Aldershot direction) a few trees were encroaching on the left hand lane so I can see that slowing things down @ rush hour.

Thank you, greatly appreciated.
All the best

Our fence is now in bits scattered around ours and the neighbours gardens. Not ideal. We’re Surrey/Sussex border, still bloody windy here.

Calming down in Surrey but amazing wind and noise between 3-5am. Just off to inspect any damage (fingers crossed). No need to pick the remaining apples off the tree!!!

I feel sure I should know who allthepies is but I’m not sure. AW?

avdave2 – not sure what to say, really.

There were quite a lot of people down there watching the waves and taking pictures when we there and the sea was very rough. It does sound like it was an ill advised game gone tragically wrong from reports I’ve read. It is exhilarating being close to the sea on days like that sometimes the risk isn’t perceived, though.

I took this on my phone just after 2 and it was getting rougher as time went on (I’m at the top of a 20ft shingle bank);

I hope your daughter is able to come to terms with what she saw and experienced yesterday – it can’t have been an easy night for you. My thoughts are with the boys family and with yours.

South Hertfordshire here: BIG wind around 6.30 – had to re-peg the awning – I think it’s passed on its way to the North Sea. I’m off to work.

Was out with the dogs earlier, funny to see their reactions.

Sad about the boy washed into the sea in Sussex 🙁

How terrible for his family, and how terrible for the rescue services to have to abandon the search last night. I can’t imagine how awful it must be to know someone is out there, and to be told to stop searching. All very sad.

All OK coming in from Bath to Bridgewater, a few leaves and the occasional branch, but really nothing. Looks like it’s skipped up the coast a bit more before really hitting the land.

Sad to hear about the boy in Newhaven.

Closer to home The A2 is shut between the M25 all the way to London due to ‘numerous fallen trees’.

Quite a pleasant, sunny, if slightly blustery still, morning here in the New Forest.

However I’ve been up half the night because of the wind noise (we’re surrounded by very tall trees). It was howling! First inspection of the garden appeared normal, wasn’t until I got in the car that the destruction became apparent.

Large branch hanging dangerously (about 10m long) over the road opposite, another hanging over neighbour-but-one’s garden. Road disappeared under leaf debris and small branches. Turned into the road at the end of our close to find trees down both ways!

One huge one will take a bit of clearing, the other had smashed as it hit the ground so managed to pull a bit out of the way and navigate round.

Wish I had a wood burner now!

My drive to work took an hour and a half. This was on my lane, I’d made slow progress clearing branches until I got to this, at which point I gave up and went the long way. Anyone coming from Haselmere/Goldalming is in for a long drive.

Poor bloke in a taxi had a tree land on him, looked pretty nasty

Time to wheel out the lost productivity and insurance losses calculator now that the jewel in the crown of our shining national economy is covered in leaves and twigs. Come the six o’clock news tonight I estimate it at £865,478,964.12 so not far off that associated with this forum.