Heads up UK: Devastating 100mph storm to bring 48 hours of ‘utter hell’

reply to post by Tsu322


You had me panicking there - I finish work at 7 and was hoping of a night of playing either GTA5 or Total War 2: Rome, thankfully it's just Pangbourne...For now...

reply to post by stumason


Hehe, I would get some Red Bull in just in case.

I'm hoping the power gets cut off in work.

I normally shower in the morning but I think I will have one tonight just in case.

Worth noting that with the low not now expected to fully engage with the jet stream until it reaches the North Sea, Denmark is right in the firing line and currently looks like getting much worse than Britain.

Closing in now in Devon. Heavy rain and wind picking up. Typical just in time for pub time!! Cider anyone?

reply to post by AndyMayhew


Oh no could that mean a national bacon shortage?

I'm in Cheshire (north west England) and nothing seems to be happening here just yet and I doubt much will. The trees are shaking a bit more than usual but other than that there's nothing out of the ordinary.

There was about half an hour of a storm on Friday and I don't think this will be as bad as that was - in the north, anyway!

www.portofjersey.je...

Try this page it has observations from jersey updated every 10 minutes. Keep an eye on the air pressure if it falls 1 mb an hour then it's going to be nasty

Reports of trees down coming in already on BBC news

reply to post by stumason


Stu
I will wait and see - BUT we will both know if it has been hyped by tomorrow.
I still stand by the fact that it is nothing much - probably.
It is not like the bush fires in the Blue Mountains or Katrina or some Siberian snow storm.
The British are by and large just soft.

Weather reports from rigs off the Irish coast neat cork . Wave height 6.7m wind 42 kts gusting to 59 kts and deepening

Well the report from Yorkshire is dark and drizzle.

This is the normal state of affairs, so I am as yet unconcerned.

(Yorkshire people know we need to keep the South of the country thinking this about the North, so they don't come up here).

HelenConway

The British are by and large just soft.

No. The London based southern media is. They're the ones screaming 'omg stormageddon', not the British people.

gilbis

I agree. Yesterday was far windier in Devon than so far today. Im near Okehampton and it is windy but not as strong as yesterday afternoon. Early days mind

I was living near Okehampton back in 1987. That was a fun time but it cost us a fortune in replacement slates for the roof. We were already used to periods of time with electricity or clean water (thanks to SWEB and SWW never quite getting round to fixing things in the area) so I don't really remember noticing any difference post-storm. Plenty of nights were already spent reading by the light of a kerosene lamp!

Hope as is well and safe for you down there!

reply to post by khimbar


Shhhhh we sure do they think its grim up north...lets not let them into our secret

HelenConway
reply to post by stumason

 

Stu
I will wait and see - BUT we will both know if it has been hyped by tomorrow.
I still stand by the fact that it is nothing much - probably.
It is not like the bush fires in the Blue Mountains or Katrina or some Siberian snow storm.
The British are by and large just soft.

I think that the British never really get enough truly bad weather to get used to it. We don't prepare for high winds, snow or extended periods of sunny weather. We don't spend on the infrastructure or weather-hardening that other countries have in place because we don't expect it to get that bad. We're rather spoiled by having generally rubbish but rarely serious weather.

The impact of this, of course, is that even slightly rough weather can knock out services that are simply unprepared. I cannot think of a single person that has ever changed their tyres due to weather, or have ever purchased snow chains. Few places are ever truly cut off or independent for long, so "stocking up" or "prepping" doesn't have the same kind of foothold here.

It's not that the British are soft, just inexperienced and unprepared because the need to be prepared crops up on a generational basis rather than an annual basis.

reply to post by HelenConway

So is it wrong to prepare for and be warned of a storm that can and will cause structural damage and be a possible danger too life. Even if this storm reduces before it hits our shores it will still have enough power to cause hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of damage.

Here in my neck of the woods - West Hertfordshire - it seems to have gone quite calm over the last hour or so. Was very windy heading back from Aylesbury earlier but has calmed down considerably since then. The calm before the storm perhaps?

Well, I'll be up around 4:30AM tomorrow for a 5:30 departure to the office in Reading, so will see how it is then. If it's bad then I'll just have some breakfast and login from home for the day.

18:12pm manchester, all quiet. wind seemed to be whipping up a short while ago but has settled down at the moment.

I wish the other thread hadn't been closed, because I was interested in following the situation from others here in France!

Rodinus... are you doing okay?

I am in the south, so hopefully won't get hit by this one... but earlier this week, we had such terrible flooding- it has been a disaster around here.
We got hit by lightning and it blew up our computer, and our satelite dish.. a horse in the field next to us got hit and has some serious neurological damage, looks like they'll have to put her down, poor thing.

I hope this storm won't be too destructive in the north...

double post. no idea why.