I thought we'd stopped all this regional cr*p 😠 Please stop using this thread to vent your spleen

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There was a red warning for Hurricane Bawbang and also a last minute red for the Jan 03, 2011 sting jet

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Parts of Great Yarmouth and Suffolk are being evactated. They are also preparing to evacuate some costal parts of norfolk.

The Environment Agency is expecting the sea to be 2m higher than costal defences.

The River Ness has burst its banks and is flooding parts of Inverness.

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Not good at all, the EA website is down

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The decaying front has just reached us like a steam train! Horizontal sleet, black as night and extremely strong winds

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Cheshire gap streamer setting up, wonder if some people in Cheshire and the North Midlands might see something wintry later? I think I'll be too far east http://www.meteoradar.co.uk

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Hi all, we have just had a wintry shower of hail, sleet /snow going through Burnley. At least the winds have eased off with the odd gust now and then in the showers

Cheers Paul S.

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Recent sleet shower.  Wind calmed down considerably this afternoon.

We've got a sprinkling of snow on the ground and more especially against NWern facing surfaces and there will probably a few showers over the coming 24hrs.it is still very windy here at times but the worst seems to have passed

I'm just listening to the latest re. The storm surge down the North Sea and Yarmouth Council are highlighting that the risk is over the next 36hrs (3 high tides) and not just this evening and tonight. The potential for serious coastal flooding seems very real but with the high profile and pre-emotive action, I hope people do not claim they weren't warned.

Not my favourite types of weather wind and coastal surges - you can't totally prepare for either and the unpredictable nature can have delay consequences.

The risk of flooding in the middle of the night is not something you to experience.

Worrying times but hopefully the areas potentially affected will be "over-prepared"

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It reached here like a steam train too - one that stopped running in 1969 and has been rusting in siding ever since   

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Met Office confirmation of 142mph gusts up on Anoach Moir.

Different sites saying different values but generally 70-80mph at low level. 90-100mph higher levels. 100mph+ mountains and highest hills.

Just walked back in the most atrocious hail storm. I feel like I've been cut to shreds! Truely horrendous to walk in, with horizontal hail

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My garden has been devastated by the winds. Fence panels downs , rabbit hutch close to destroyed , rain gauge gone . Reckon the peak gust could have been close to 80mph here, similar to Emley Moor. West/ north west winds are bad here as hilltop faces out into funnel of valley .

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I know that area very well indeed. First time New Brighton's flooded in years IIRC

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Wow, just drove through the squall line on my way back home from work. There was torrential rain (radar shows 20mm/hour) and the wind gusts were pretty strong... people slowed to around 30 on the dual carriageway where on a normal day they'd be doing 70 or more. The squall gusts knocked out power to a big chunk of the western end of the Isle, resulting in no street lights and no traffic lights - amazing how much more smoothly the traffic was flowing as a result!

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heavy snow here.

 

Not sure that many folks latched on to Martin's typically factual and unemotional post earlier this afternoon:

 

"If anyone is interested, here's my wind speed and dew point graphs for today. The squall line is obvious and then a very quick drop in wind speed and temp. Peak gust 102.0mph at 06:06 with average speeds up until 7am being 60mph.

Stormy"

That's from someone whose house must sit little over a hundred feet above the sea (- but what a sea!) in one of the most dramatic parts of the British Isles. Great to have input from folks like Martin, Doc, Retron (and of course others!) who just ooze knowledge

 

We just had a sleety shower with some visible snow flakes in it. Temp was 2.7c at the time.

 

The winds today have been incredible. At work on the third floor our single glazed windows were actually flexing with the wind. the squall was very impressive.

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I've had some wet snow.

Enough to give a a slushy covering on cars and wheelie bins. Of little significance really apart from it being the first wintry precipitation of the season.

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Certainly some rough coonditions around, I feel for coastal areas

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Had some wet snow here earlier on, currently dry and 1 centigrade.

One of the highest hills locally ( Holme Moss, about 525 metres ) is littered with cars stuck in the snow according to some on FB.

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Defences in Yarmouth breached a couple of hours before high tide.

Extensive flooding on the North Wales coast, along with the Wirral & the Dee & Mersey estuary areas. Hope this doesn't get ignored, news-wise, because the SE suffers flooding too.

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Thinking of family and frinds around Hull, Selby and Felixstowe. I don't think any are in the real flood risk areas but this is quite an event now. Stay safe.

Some teriffic wind speeds overnight with the full spectrum of weather thrown in and now this storm surge.

buachaille, thanks for the kind comments above. There are a good deal of members on here who have much more knowledge than me, so it's a good forum to learn. That's what I've done. 

A general point about amateur data and comparison with MO data. Most of our own weather stations can't ever get close too the strict rules the MO has to apply to its fleet of stations, it being a world class scientific organisation. But what we are recording are spot measurements and the readings often give a resonably representative idea of conditions at the location. I had two different anemometers on the go last night (both on the same mast) because I wanted to make sure my data was representative, and both got 100mph gusts at about the same time. So I think my data was good and realistic. Speaking with people today, while it wasn't as severe as Jan 2005 (low level readings of well over 100mph widely) most people compared last night with that event. It was very wild indeed.  

Martyn, Felixstowe had some of the worst casualties in 53, my grandad picked bodies out of the water when he was in the police force. I fear for Felixstowe, any storm there seems to cause problems now, tonight is incredibly worrying.

I'm also starting to feel the stoke bridge area of Ipswich will have a lot of problems tonight.