Go home tree, you're drunk. Spotted around the corner from my house.



One of the many victims of the Windstorm, but does anyone living around here notice that salty "brine" scent in the air. Hardly surprising as I suspect half the English Channel has been swept up and dumped over Kent!

So annoyed. Had to nip out to pick up provisions, as I opened the car door the wind took it. It is now bent out of shape. I thought I wouldn't get it shut thanks to the wind, but did, but now it only opens about 30cms. What a polava and superb timeing....at least noone else was involved or hurt.

The pressure is still falling here, 938.3hPa. Waves are overtopping the main pier at Uig. Gusts are not that special so far, max 76mph. 

Commiserations

Things like that are sometimes a right ol' PITA to put right!

That's the bother with this weather – it’s so ruddy destructive!  Have to say it's my least favourite weather type "on the ground"  - in fact I detest it!  (interesting synoptically though).

It's only a car...can be fixed. I agree, this kind of weather is very destructive. Nice to watch from a safe place, but not nice to be out in.

Conditions here last night must have been worse than forecast, conservatory waterlogged , most of our fence panels either gone or broken.

Thankfully the largest fence panel just missed the conservatory

these are for today:

http://www.weatheronline.co.uk/weather/maps/current?LANG=en&UP=0&R=310&TYP=windspitzen&ART=tabelle&LANG=en&KEY=UK&LAND=UK&CONT=euro&SORT=3&UD=0

change the date on the calendar on right side as required.

The Met Office put some stats up here: http://metofficenews.wordpress.com/2013/12/24/wind-and-rainfall-data-23-to-24-december-2013/

The Met Office at Boscombe Down, Salisbury Plain, recorded 66.7mm of rain in the 24 hours 9am 23 December to 9am 24 December. This is provisionally a new all time daily record in any month for the station – records going back to January 1931. The previous record was 62.3mm on 16 August 1977.

Still alot of rain to come for most parts this week

http://www.weatheronline.co.uk/cgi-bin/expertcharts?LANG=en&MENU=0000000000&CONT=ukuk&MODELL=gfs&MODELLTYP=1&BASE=-&VAR=rsum&HH=96&ZOOM=0&ARCHIV=0&RES=0&WMO=&PERIOD=

Glad you got through it ok Ian it was very wild lost power several times and still 2 chickens short they will come home when hungry despite what my partner says about foxs and its all my fault have a few leaks around windows which i have re-sealed because of wet wall paper other than that all seems ok so far.

 Anyway cut it down and make a nice xmas tree sod what council says it will die anyway

latest obs at 14.00

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/observations/

Solent still gusting to 47 mph and Plymouth 44mph  @14.00

Speaking as an unpaid amateur meteorologist, what impressed me was how the weather system was very well handled by the models even from seven days away. It was forecast right down to the last hour with very little in the way of deviations.
  Mind you, if medium range forecasting is as easy like this all the time then it would take the challenge away (it's a bit like knowing when you are going to be ill from a week away).
  Now the charts are going back to their usual mind changings but one thing for certain is there's very little signs of the first proper wintry spell as it'll continue to be mild and changeable for the next two weeks at least.
  At least we won't have to worry about water restrictions this summer - remember when THAT was an issue only a couple of years ago?

One thing i cant get my head around is why met never went red with it last night with all the travel plans and safety of general public even aircraft had to turn around and go home

Indeed Ian pleased you never saw shipping forecast I posted I did check you were not around before I posted

All the best

 Anyway cut it down and make a nice xmas tree sod what council says it will die anyway.

Go home tree, you're drunk. Spotted around the corner from my house.



One of the many victims of the Windstorm, but does anyone living around here notice that salty "brine" scent in the air. Hardly surprising as I suspect half the English Channel has been swept up and dumped over Kent!

Originally Posted by: idj20 

Originally Posted by: Polar Low 

 I suspect someone else willl have beaten to me with that idea by now.

Speaking as an unpaid amateur meteorologist, what impressed me was how the weather system was very well handled by the models even from seven days away. It was forecast right down to the last hour with very little in the way of deviations.
  Mind you, if medium range forecasting is as easy like this all the time then it would take the challenge away (it's a bit like knowing when you are going to be ill from a week away).
  Now the charts are going back to their usual mind changings but one thing for certain is there's very little signs of the first proper wintry spell as it'll continue to be mild and changeable for the next two weeks at least.
  At least we won't have to worry about water restrictions this summer - remember when THAT was an issue only a couple of years ago?

Originally Posted by: idj20