Storm Ashley

Following on from last week’s Island Life thread, we’re currently being battered by 60+mph winds, all ferries were cancelled today, the lights are flickering, a combination of tides plus a storm surge of about a metre means the Main Street is awash with an hour to go to high tide. Currently sipping a dram, listening to the garden furniture getting blown about outside and trying to convince Mrs DB that it’s not as bad as Storm Arwen…

The worst will hopefully be over by midnight. Hope your dram is followed by a couple more.

Bloke up the lane is in the middle of re-slating his house. It’s not going well TBH. We have heard a few bad words this afternoon.

Made it off Tiree on a late ferry last night, looks like a feisty day was in store. Hope you’re not too badly affected @dovebiker.

There were a few good live streams from various airports this morning of crosswind landings.

It rained more or less all morning here (Manchester) although to be fair that’s pretty standard weather for Manchester anyway! Then it turned into a pretty decent afternoon. River levels a fair way up and still rising though.

High part of south Lanarkshire, it’s been a windy day with some showers, was 16 degrees earlier and nice when sun was out. No sign of anything that I’d call stormy. Too windy for an outside ride mind you, so my 100 days ride was on the Wattbike in the garage.

Hope you’re not too badly affected

We’re fine, 50m above sea level and the wind is now abating a bit. Argyll & Bute Council spent over a £1m on new flood defences for the Main Street and they’ve failed miserably at their first attempt – a few cars left in the car park and Main Street might need attention. Not helped by the bow-wave from the Coastguard truck that drove through it. A few shops might need mopping out. I know quite a few of the Lifeboat crew and hope there’s been no shouts – wouldn’t want to be out at sea in this weather.

Blowing a right hoolie in the west of Ireland.

Got 2/3 days through ticking off the *West Highland Way before taking the sensible option of bailing today. Devils Staircase in that this morning looked like absolutely no fun at all. The 1 mile ride from Kingshouse to the bus was bad enough, absolutely drenched.

Turned out to be the right call given our train home from Fort Bill tonight got cancelled.

Time will tell if we’re getting the ferry to Arran tomorrow or not…

(* side note for anyone stumbling across this thread in the future – the Loch Lomond section even between Rowardennan and Inversnaid is absolute pish. Lord only knows what the bit after that must be like if it’s the section with the reputation for being unridable)

There was a wheelie bin over in Edinburgh this afternoon. Mind I was at student flats, so could have been last night’s daftyness….

Despite it sounding like the roof was coming in. We survived with only the children’s slide being blown over and down the garden.

Happy my solar thermal survived the night as I had doubted the number of fixings used for the surface area of the panel.

Time will tell if we’re getting the ferry to Arran tomorrow or not…

I think the weather is only a minor variable in that respect 🙂

the calm after the not really a storm….. dog walk here in East Kilbride this morning : a few bins over, maybe just the Sunday night jakies tho…. quiet a bit of flooding on the paths and roads, largely due to the drains being blocked up with the massive deluge of leaves overnight.

BBC Scotland news report last night was poor, the weather had largely passed and they did an exact repeat of the story from the morning news, so was absolute nonsense ..

Sun is out and it’s quite mild tho.

I have just ordered quotes for a reroof. Super shoogly slates survived last night but valley off an extension has sprung a leak.   Weekend was fraught, on weather apps watching rainfall but no water got in, unlike the ceiling collapsing deluge earlier in the week.  Wind probably blew most of it away.

The A9 was blocked near Tomatin for a short while as a tree had fallen across the road but, other than that, it’s been pretty much a non-event for us. It must have tracked too far North and West of us..

It rained more or less all morning here (Manchester)

It didn’t seem that bad though TBH, I went for a spin along the river and back and while it was a bit rainy, the wind was more of an embuggerance. Hope everyone battered by it yesterday is OK though.

Last night’s high tide topped out at 6m, 1.3m higher than predicted – sandbags and preventive measures along the Main Street meant there was no real damage, just a few soggy doormats. Went around to Calgary this morning and there’s huge amounts of weed washed up on the beach along with a couple of dead seals.

@dovebiker – where are you based? Tobermory?

Bin fell over, was 68mph gusts which is only 10mph more than an average Tuesday. Appreciate not everywhere is as used to it.

Sounded a bit windier than normal here last night in the tweed valley.

Been out for a ride this morning and there doesn’t appear to be any damage at all to the trails.