We have to travel today by car. We're going to take full waterproofs and wellies in case it ends badly. We're probably mad.
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....our local beck is just about to flood about 100 houses near here....not me....but I have rain mixed with soot coming out of my chimney onto my cooker....bong chingComment
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....I have beern without central heating for a week or so....a new boiler on Tues....But my Facebook timeline is suddenly filling with Boiler Adverts....bong chingComment
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Thanks for the tip. We're just setting off.....Take a thermos and some food too!Comment
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Lots of alerts coming through from Scotrail about delays from Falkirk to Edinburgh due to severe weather. I'm only a mile up the road and it's not even raining! Very strange.Comment
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....vagrant wind blown trampolines seem to be a threat to trains....Originally posted by LezLee View Postbong chingComment
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High winds that result in speed limits will have an effect - rain not necessary! Also there comes a point when disruption elsewhere on the network causes delays at a distance.Originally posted by LezLee View PostComment
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Yes there are going to be quite a few relocated items by the time this goes through. When I had my allotments the day after a storm was always spent trying to retrieve things that had gone for a flight and return items that had ended up on my plot. With open fields around and a railway line(heritage) in between things could travel quite a distance and getting them back could be difficult. I did end up with some items that I couldn't find an owner for, some of which were worth keeping. One memorable and unwelcome blow-in was a small corrugated iron sheet which grounded by one of the sheds, having first engaged with the polytunnel...Originally posted by eighthobstruction View PostComment
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Well ... so far today, the weather here has been nowhere near as fierce as predicted - windy, yes, and some rain, but nothing extraordinary. I sometimes wonder whether forecasters 'over-egg' the potential effects of these storms having been caught out in 1987.Comment
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All rivers up here seriously swollen / flooding / dangerous to walk by, winds wild, then occasional glimpses of sun! Weird.Comment
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I reckon it's down to your particular locality. My local forecast is for wind speeds well below the national average. It's still pretty blowy though. In a wide variety of UK locations, wind speeds in excess of 80 mph have been recorded over the past 12 hours or so. You and I seem to simply be lucky to be living where we each are.Originally posted by LMcD View PostComment
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I think you're right - there have been reports of damage - roofs torn off etc - just a dozen miles away. Our local forecast is now predicting 'strong winds' in the mid-40s, although this time yesterday we were told it was going to be in the mid-to high-60s round about now.Originally posted by Bryn View Post
Being on the coast, we often avoid frosts, and there are those who will tell you that more often than not 'the rain goes down the rivers' - we're between two - and out to sea, hence our low average annual rainfall.Comment
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The second cold front pass across this area half an hour ago - downpour of the year so far, lasting more than ten minutes, visibility down to a couple of hundred metres accompanied by winds of about 50 mph at a glance: really wide for a squall line, which must have been a good 20 miles across - for a time the torrential rain sweeping up the road resembled waves travelling uphill! The earlier front passed through at just after midday with a few lightning flashes, though surprisingly no audible thunder - it must have been drowned out by the roar of the winds. The weather doesn't appear to have been as wild around here as I'd expected, fortunately. Winds have now dropped to moderate to fresh, and the temperature from 11 C to 8 C with the slight shift in wind direction, and I see too that the barometer has begun to rise. We're still under the back shield of cloud, probably obscuring showers queuing up out to the west.Comment
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