Stormy Weather

[BBMmk2]

Be safe Mangerton!

[Nick Armstrong]

That's right - save the beer for the weekend!

[Flosshilde]

Very high winds around here today, not to mention the lashing rain.

And here - I wouldn't be surprised if the Erskine Bridge was closed (it looks pretty traffic-free for 9.00 in the morning on Traffic Scotland's live camera).

I wonder if this afternoon's BBCSSO concert will go ahead? it's due to be broadcast live, but the last time we had weather like this a couple of years ago they cancelled an evening concert (Bluebeard's Castle, which I was looking forward to, & they haven't rescheduled it)

[DracoM]

Wild, wild night and day here in Ultima Thule. Next door are in the process of being re-roofed, and in the night, the protective tarpaulin has been torn and shredded and pretty well useless.

It's a bad one out there.

[BBMmk2]

........and total opposite here! Cold night with a thick ground frost!

[Flosshilde]

I didn't know you lived in Ultima Thule, Draco. Such a a strange sounding name - I always think it sounds Bunyanesque & rather final.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I didn't know you lived in Ultima Thule, Draco. Such a a strange sounding name - I always think it sounds Bunyanesque & rather final.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9gTNeWl_lk

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Wheelie bins strewn across the road in this fragment of the Pennines this morning. "I wish the binmen'd put them back as tidily as we put them out" grumbled a cross fhg as he ventured out into the wilds to bring them in - but they were still full: 'twas the wind that had scattered them.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

windy and sunny in the middle kingdom - the sky at sunset last night was one of the most magical i have seen .... Venus and a whisper of a New Moon in a sun tinged blueness the moon visible in perfect three dimensional clarity ... truly awesome

[amateur51]

At 07:15 the sky was part-grey, part-blue with extraordinarily pink clouds (say nothing ).

Now the clouds and grey and white and scudding past eastwards at quite a rate, with sunshine filtering through. Quite blustery at ground level but not that cold.

[Flosshilde]

Originally Posted by Flosshilde View Post
I didn't know you lived in Ultima Thule, Draco. Such a a strange sounding name - I always think it sounds Bunyanesque & rather final.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9gTNeWl_lk

Oh dear

Mr F. does say that my geographical knowledge is non-existent.

[Beef Oven!]

I don't know what it's like where you are, but in the last 15 minutes I've experienced terrible wind.

[Anna]

From what I've gathered it's certainly been rough in Scotland (and all trains cancelled!) but any sign of the promised? The storm surge is worrying and it seems that apart from the East Coast some places in Flintshire have also been evacuated because of expected high tide/surge, This morning here it could be described as bracing - or the sort of weather than blows cobwebs away in two minutes, but wind has calmed down now and sky clearing.

windy and sunny in the middle kingdom - the sky at sunset last night was one of the most magical i have seen .... Venus and a whisper of a New Moon in a sun tinged blueness the moon visible in perfect three dimensional clarity ... truly awesome

It was absolutely perfect here as well, and so starry until mist came in the early hours.

[Serial_Apologist]

From what I've gathered it's certainly been rough in Scotland (and all trains cancelled!) but any sign of the promised? The storm surge is worrying and it seems that apart from the East Coast some places in Flintshire have also been evacuated because of expected high tide/surge, This morning here it could be described as bracing - or the sort of weather than blows cobwebs away in two minutes, but wind has calmed down now and sky clearing.

That means the worst has now passed where you are, Anna. The cold front - which has caused all the trouble further north - is about to hit us here: just a few spots at the moment; enough rain coming to obliterate everything within 5 miles to the north from view, but a greatly weakened feature now. Wind WNW about 20 mph at a glance; 9.5 degrees C, which is as high as it has got and will get today.

[mangerton]

Yes, there were no trains in Scotland for a time this morning. The Tay Road Bridge (85 mph gusts had been reported) re-opened at 11 am, and the sun came out for a bit. We had a heavy snowfall for 45 mins around lunchtime, and it got very cold - 0º C at 3.30 this afternoon, and no warmer now.

Looking at the news reports other parts of Scotland had it much worse, and the situation looks grim for the east of England this evening.