Stormy Weather II

[Serial_Apologist]

Snow - in FLORIDA!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ucL0GiXGU0&t=241s

Usually these sorts of cold outbreaks eventually reach the UK in one form or other, though they may take a fortnight to get here.

[Serial_Apologist]

Many concerns now being expressed on UKWW over Storm Eowyn for this coming Friday: "unprecedented if it turns out so" etc etc.

[oddoneout]

Snow - in FLORIDA!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ucL0GiXGU0&t=241s

Usually these sorts of cold outbreaks eventually reach the UK in one form or other, though they may take a fortnight to get here.

Citrus shortage ahead then? Not good news for the growers, following storm damage in the autumn.

[johncorrigan]

Many concerns now being expressed on UKWW over Storm Eowyn for this coming Friday: "unprecedented if it turns out so" etc etc.

Red warning for South West Scotland and Central belt for tomorrow. 100MPH gusts expected in the west. We might just miss the worst of it over in West Angus, but Eowyn is set to race across Scotland through Friday. Battening hatches! Mind how you go!

[oddoneout]

Red warning for South West Scotland and Central belt for tomorrow. 100MPH gusts expected in the west. We might just miss the worst of it over in West Angus, but Eowyn is set to race across Scotland through Friday. Battening hatches! Mind how you go!

Family on the west coast further north than you were doing just that earlier today, and mentioned that the centre of the storm is currently set to go over their location - "so we'll get a double dose with a break in the middle".

[Serial_Apologist]

Red warning for South West Scotland and Central belt for tomorrow. 100MPH gusts expected in the west. We might just miss the worst of it over in West Angus, but Eowyn is set to race across Scotland through Friday. Battening hatches! Mind how you go!

Best of luck John - I'll be thinking of you and yours as gusts down here reach 40 mph!

[Serial_Apologist]

Family on the west coast further north than you were doing just that earlier today, and mentioned that the centre of the storm is currently set to go over their location - "so we'll get a double dose with a break in the middle".

That's about right! Atlantic depressions do not have the tight structures that form the "eye" found in tropical hurricanes and typhoons as there's too much complex mixing of the in-coming airstreams; however I have clear memories of one such deep low crossing the West Country, with winds which had been strong dropping out, and (to my fascination) seeing clouds to one side moving one way, and, to the other, in the opposite direction.

[pastoralguy]

Our mobile ‘phones just alarmed in the loudest way to alert that a red warning has been issued. According to facebook, everyone in our local cinema’s phones went off simultaneously scaring the bejesus out of the audience!

[gurnemanz]

After a wet and windy morning it was a lovely sunny afternoon for tennis here in N Wilts. Calm before storm?

[johncorrigan]

Best of luck John - I'll be thinking of you and yours as gusts down here reach 40 mph!

Thanks S_A. Stay safe. Wind just building with a bit rain...just started the day with a run across the field to retrieve a tarpaulin that I hadn't battened down quite as firmly as I thought. Think I'll go back to my bed.

[Serial_Apologist]

Thanks S_A. Stay safe. Wind just building with a bit rain...just started the day with a run across the field to retrieve a tarpaulin that I hadn't battened down quite as firmly as I thought. Think I'll go back to my bed.

Everyone watching the news will have seen the ferocity of what people in Ireland and Scotland have been or are experiencing right now: one of the lowest deep depressions to impact UK shores and a few wind speed records being broken, so we do all hope all's well. Down south the isobars haven't been as tight as further north, so here it's only been blustery. I think I'm right in saying DracoM is now within the extended red warning area.

[oddoneout]

Just had an email from family in Scotland, with a picture of the loch looking like a mirror, taken in the interval at lunchtime between the two parts of the storm. Currently wind gusting mid 60s there, due to increase further and then start to decrease in the early hours.
Meanwhile down here, it was sun and blue skies all day. The wind got a bit much for a while(although much less so than had been forecast) but despite that it was mild, and stayed dry.

[oddoneout]

Hope everyone has got through the storm, although I imagine that power cuts may be a problem for some. Here it is a 'butter wouldn't melt' morning - sun, blue sky and the merest whisper of a breeze, colder than yesterday though.

[oddoneout]

Well we have now!

Should 939 mb turn out to be the central pressure of the deep low that's anticipated to reach Scotland by way of N Ireland this coming Friday, I may be right in thinking this would turn out to be the deepest depression to hit any part of the British Isles in recorded history.

Scottish update is that 948 was the lowest point in the 'eye of the storm', and when the photo of the glassy calm loch was taken it had only got to 952.

[Serial_Apologist]

Scottish update is that 948 was the lowest point in the 'eye of the storm', and when the photo of the glassy calm loch was taken it had only got to 952.

Yes, I'd been keeping checks on the situation as it proceeded via UKWW, on which posters with the right kinds of resources were relaying ongoing positions. Not surprisingly there did seem to be disagreements, given things were changing minute-by-minute, but 948 did seem to be a rough ballpark figure. If I remember correctly the barometer fell to a low point of 946 mb at the height of the infamous October 1987 "hurricane". I can remember wondering if my barometer had broken.

It was beautiful here as well when I went out for a short strolll around the block half an hour ago, with warm sunshine and even a hint of spring. No signs of birdsong yet, apart from the omnipresent parakeets, but one of our clumps of daffs has a flower about to emerge - way ahead of our croci and snowdrops. Don't think I've ever seen that before, anywhere!