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My wife's friend and her husband are just about to complete a Mediterranean cruise and were docked at Vigo which is in NW Spain just above the border with Portugal . Because of this imminent storm they are returning to the UK..Southampton..a day early but will be allowed to stay on board to enjoy meals etc. I don't think it's re the weather in the Channel so much as the Bay of Biscay. I can't recall which of P&Os ships they are on but two of them are sailing back to the UK early. Iona and Arvia.

On the BBC forecast they said gusts of 95mph could hit NW Scotland. Right up there around Ullapool,I think. A lot of rain with it,too.

This is what metereologists at Reading University have said. You have to note the word "could" re the possibility of a weather bomb developing.


“Storm Amy could become what meteorologists call a weather bomb, when a storm intensifies very rapidly. This usually means the central pressure falls by about 24 millibars in 24 hours, though the exact threshold varies with latitude. Forecasts suggest Amy could deepen by around 40 millibars in the 24 hours before it reaches us, which would make it fast-developing and potentially dangerous."

The centre of the Low will be passing north of Scotland meaning that for those of us south of Wales (so a line drawn from South Wales across to the east coast. will just get varying strengths of wind but not at a force that requires a warning. At least these winds will be coming up from the south so relatively warm.

The Express has a wind gust chart. Just scroll down. Unfortunately, it's recorded in km/h.

www.express.co.uk

Latest updates on when Storm Amy's 80mph gales and heavy rain will hit UK

Storm Amy is expected to bring very strong winds to many parts of the UK on Friday and Saturday.
www.express.co.uk www.express.co.uk
 
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We have heavy rain here at the moment which I'm hoping wont last as I have a few hours free tomorrow and was hoping to head out with a camera.
 
We are the red dot in Surrey, all too much of the rest of the UK is getting a soaking... right now

Screenshot of the live rain radar 23:30pm looking at the animation from 9;25 it looks lkr like that 'tail' is going to hit us soonish.

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Tonight’s rugby has been cancelled in Edinburgh due to the storm, our ground is semi permanent so really a giant gazebo, unfortunately Murrayfield having some work done so no move their, ah well there’s a game on telly, in the warm with a glass of something nice.
Daughter runs events at the Old course hotel in St Andrews, Dunhill golf on now and many have functions outside in marquees, plan B ready for go.
 
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We are the red dot in Surrey, all too much of the rest of the UK is getting a soaking... right now

Screenshot of the live rain radar 23:30pm looking at the animation from 9;25 it looks lkr like that 'tail' is going to hit us soonish.

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The M4 from Maindendead to Chiswick was pretty miserable on my way home, and although we don't have wind it is just wet
 
We have rain and quite high winds now.
 
Blowing a hoolie outside! And just this second the power went out (

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I think it's calmed down a bit now but I'm not ging outside to see.
 
Blowing well on the n.wales coast ,currently clear blue skies with a band of black storm clouds heading eastwards , wind supposed to be picking up in the next few hours .
 
Here in Northern Ireland, it's been a rather stormy 24 hours. Strong winds (around 70mph I believe) and lots of hard rain. I took the dogs out yesterday lunchtime and the rain was horizontal and hurt. The dogs weren't mad keen but needed a bit of an outing, naturally, but were like drowned rats afterwards. Being collies, they can take it. Myself, having top notch waterproofs kept me dry but only just I think. Last evening we started losing power for minutes at a time, the lights were flickering all the time - must have been some dodgy connections in the overhead cables - we live in the countryside so it's a common occurrence in storms. Many thousands of homes hit with cuts over here. Trees down, although thankfully none of ours this time.
Our solar installation is being done on Monday - after that, at least we know we;ll have some level of electricity from the batteries to keep the fridge-freezer in the garage running and a few lower consumption items on an extension lead. We're glad we have a log burner and calorie gas fire in the sitting rooms.
 
It was certainly interesting in the SW of Scotland, the bigger trees at the tops on the sides and tops of the valley were roaring most of the night, it started getting a bit blowy from about 5pm. By 9, yeah, it was certainly noticeable. I wasn't risking a dog walk with all the trees that are around here but we have a large garden, so I did venture out there with her a couple of times and the wind was constantly high, 40-50mph at a guess but the gusts were very strong. The noise was pretty impressive.

I can hear the river from the house this morning, I've not seen it today yet but it is high and fast, there is no doubt. I think we've gotten away with no damage. It's calmer now but still a windy day but nothing out of the ordinary at the moment for these parts, this time of year.
 
I've had a good look around and thankfully I can't see any damage here. It really was quite a storm here in NE England.
 
Free power from octopus yesterday, today and tomorrow. Gonna be windy.
 
At 5.15pm The BBC News showed trees down in NI and very rough seas. Very bad footgae from Scotland,too. It's now heading towards Norway.

Someone from the Met Office said the storm had the lowest pressure ever seen in an October storm at 942Mb...27.82 inHg.

Here's wiki information on it. Highest gust 96mph on Tiree, the most westerly of the islands of the Inner Hebrides. I didn't know it was called Storm Detlef in Germany. Considering the centre of it was just north of Scotland it shows the massive size of it .

en.wikipedia.org

Storm Amy - Wikipedia

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Been fairly dry today down here in the Somerset area but it has been pretty windy!
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Yes., same here. We didn't get much of it, did we. We get the full force when the centre of the Low is off the south coast of Ireland or a bit further south.
 
It was windy in Glasgow, but not really of great concern or use; the chainsaw has remained in the shed :D
 
Lots of trees-or parts of- lying on roads around us, rugby cancelled Friday night as our stadium is basically a giant gazebo, I did read the air pressure was so low due to the depression that the boiling point of water in the worst areas was down to 98°! Not that I’d notice I suspect.
 
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Here in Northern Ireland, it's been a rather stormy 24 hours. Strong winds (around 70mph I believe) and lots of hard rain. I took the dogs out yesterday lunchtime and the rain was horizontal and hurt. The dogs weren't mad keen but needed a bit of an outing, naturally, but were like drowned rats afterwards. Being collies, they can take it. Myself, having top notch waterproofs kept me dry but only just I think. Last evening we started losing power for minutes at a time, the lights were flickering all the time - must have been some dodgy connections in the overhead cables - we live in the countryside so it's a common occurrence in storms. Many thousands of homes hit with cuts over here. Trees down, although thankfully none of ours this time.
Our solar installation is being done on Monday - after that, at least we know we;ll have some level of electricity from the batteries to keep the fridge-freezer in the garage running and a few lower consumption items on an extension lead. We're glad we have a log burner and calorie gas fire in the sitting rooms.
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Bet that calorie gas fire eats up the gas LOL
 
Wet and windy yesterday down here in Exeter - with a heavy hailstorm and sleet thrown in for a couple of minutes as well! Much better today, with a steadily rising barometer.
 
Now just a bit breezy here in the aftermath, although we still don't have fill power. A tree brought down a conductor in a neighbouring field, only affecting two houses - us and the empty house next door. Consequently we have occasional flickering and dim lights, and if we switch on anything chunky elegiacally, the lights go out. But we have TV/Sky/computrers and lights most of the time. The problem is due for fixing tomorrow at 1130 according to the NIE website, so we'll manage,
 
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Drove to Portree today, trees down all over the place with the council trying to clear them from the roadsides all along the way.

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