The Great Meteorological Thread

I was offered a free trip to Olympia for the horse show, turned it down due to work, glad now it's blowing a gale and pouring down, drive hoome later this evening would be horrendous :(
 
Just had to drive to Burgess Hill and it is EVIL! :gag:

Wet, very windy, and trying to avoid the immortal to**ers thrashing past throwing up a huge plume of spray! :mad:
 
You can't be far from me ;)
I go to Burgess Hill quite a bit to a certain camera shop :D
 
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Afternoon all, indeed it did get quite wild at this end last night as well. Didn't help that the gale force wind came straight in from the south - in from the Channel - thus my house felt quite exposed (if the wind come in from the south west or west then I'd feel it's effects less as the hilly built up bit to my south west does act like a giant wind break).

Due to low pressure systems often running in from the Atlantic, there's no point in me looking out for that first bit of real wintry weather until the first week of January, unless you live on Scottish high ground. Mind you, this is exactly how our weather should be doing at this time of the year as it goes into "Classic Mode".
 
Saturday does look to be especially windy where the bulk of the UK can expect 24 hours of strong to near-gales south west winds between 9 pm Friday and Saturday evening. It won't be as hairy as what we had yesterday and into last night but it'll be one long blow (that came out a bit wrong). Fun for those living at exposed coastal and hilly areas.
The rain won't be a problem at this end as I'm not expecting too much of that, it's more the wind that will be the more notable feature.

Given the set up, that should make for some cool looking lenticular cloud formations. So those living to the lee side of hills and mountains (mostly over the Eastern side of the UK) should think about polishing the lens and charging up the batteries to take photos of it.
 
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I don't think that its stopped raining here in 24 hours :(
Sometimes heavy and sometimes really hissing down,
its been pretty windy too with it.
But it does seem to be settling down a little now finally!
 
Hi All.

It doesn't really look that clever on Monday and into Tuesday morning, it's where a large and deep depression system forming off to the north west of the UK bringing severe gales to storm force winds to most of the UK. Heavy rain, hail and even hill snow will accompany the wind.

The wind should moderate by Tuesday night and things will be calmer by Christmas Day.

However, there are signs of things becoming rough again on Friday and into Saturday but that's a long way off and hopefully is likely to be less severe than the one before Christmas.

The timing couldn't be any worse what with people wanting to go ahead with the Christmas getaway. If you do have to travel then do it tomorrow or on Christmas morning.
 
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Thanks for the up date Ian :thumbs:
 
Quite glad of the crappy forecast yesterday. We went down to the Dartmoor Wildlife Park with a couple of friends but because of the weather, they were contemplating bringing all the animals in, in case a storm blew trees down onto the fences. So, they were giving out rainy day passes - basically a free re-entry within 3 months. Luckily the expected storms failed to materialize so the animals stayed out. A bit wet but all of them were out and about (unlike the bears who were either in the woods or hibernating!) Looking forward to a crisp early Spring morning midweek so we can go back and avoid the hordes of kids! (Which the weather had kept at bay yesterday - we had the place pretty much to ourselves!)
 
I've just got in from work, soaked despite wearing waterprofs and freezing cold from the wind, well gales blowing around.
It's awful out there and I really do need to pop to the shops for some last minute stuff (n)
 
Blowing a hooley today! I though I had pruned the Camelia back far enough so it didn't hit the conservatory but it's being blown about just a bit more than I anticipated. It seems to be only this year's growth that's hitting so I'm not too bothered but I'll have to be a bit more savage when it's flowered!

Hopefully, it'll all have calmed down by Wednesday. We're taking the MiL out for lunch (her treat but Mrs Nod driving [unless the DVLA have a soul...]) and she's booked a very nice place but in the taint of nowhere (good roads but plenty of overhanging trees and dips). Current advice for today is necessary journeys only. Since we're all sorted, I have no plans to go anywhere, although Mrs Nod has to go to town later to teach (and again at crack of sparrow fart in the morning). Staff commercialmas lunch tomorrow - if we can get a table! Got a little bit of decorating (painting) to do in the studio so doing that after lunch.
 
Pressure: 987 hPa (Falling),

Wind: 20mph,

Gusting: 30mph,

Not too bad at the moment.
 
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It really bucketing it down here. Conservatory is leaking through the air vents and the rain doesn't seem to be letting up. Been like it since this morning too.
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Just seen that the Newport to Hereford rail line is flooded and no alternative travel arrangements!...seems not to good around your area'ish....heading to Hereford tomorrow so looks like it'll be an interesting journey!
 
Dried off and a bit warmer now, decided not to go out again, the weather is getting worse, apparently there are trees down.
Tankfully I don't really need to drive anywhere till Sunday so car cn stay where it is
 
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Just seen that the Newport to Hereford rail line is flooded and no alternative travel arrangements!...seems not to good around your area'ish....heading to Hereford tomorrow so looks like it'll be an interesting journey!
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Its stopped now for the time being. Hopefully your Drive too Hereford will be ok tomorrow.
 
December has been a nightmare up here for gales, torrential rain, hailstorms, thunder and lightning. (November was't much better).

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Lightning fried my router in early hours of saturday morning and I had to make a 230 mile round trip to buy another one. Todays pressure is expected to be 924 hPa, its blowing an absolute hoolie with wild rain and lightning again. A day for the hoose methinks, and lets hope the power stays on.
 
That's a fairly epic gust chart !!!!!
Only one quiet(ish) day the whole month - the howl of the wind must be driving you nuts!

In the SW, we got the early part of your storm last night -it was definitely one of the strongest we've had in a while - worse than the one people are still talking about from a week or two ago!
Late evening, I was watching the flights landing in the UK - there was a point where nothing was attempting to land at any airports in the South.
The stacks for Gatwick and Luton were huge with nothing breaking out the holding pattern.
Weirdly, I couldn't find anything holding for Heathrow; I only found a single Irish plane on its way back to Cork after two aborted landings.
Nothing on the BBC website this AM about flight disruption, but it must have been immense.
 
Well, that was fun, especially since my location appeared to be right in the thick of it but thankfully (and surprisingly) damage has been kept at a minimum. I shall call this "The Christmas Windstorm" as we had 35 mph winds (including 50 mph to 70 mph gusts) for 15 straight hours. Usually such windy spells last for about 6 hours (eg St Jude back in October).
Speaking as an unpaid amateur meteorologist, what impressed me was how the weather system was very well handled by the models even from seven days away. It was forecast right down to the last hour with no deviation all the way along. It was nothing like St Judes as that was a b****r to forecast because it was a compact but very active system that travelled further south than normal.
You have to think of the area of sea between Iceland and the Shetlands as like the fairway on a golf course where depression systems usually are "expected" to track along in a north-eastwards direction (eg, yesterday's depression) and the UK is like the rough part to one side, a place where depresson system doesn't normally end up (eg, St Jude).
Mind you, if medium range forecasting is as easy like this all the time then it would take the challenge away (it's a bit like knowing when you are going to be ill from a week away).
Now the charts are going back to their usual mind changings but one thing for certain is there's very little signs of the first proper wintry spell as it'll continue to be mild and changeable for the next two weeks at least.
At least we won't have to worry about water restrictions this summer - remember when THAT was an issue only a couple of years ago - back to when this thread was first started.
But what does bother me is this; why is it we always seem to get the most strongest winds in the middle of the night?! I'm feeling a bit tired and jaded after having been kept awake by this windstorm all night last night so an early night tonight beckons.

Sorry that I've not been posting in here as much I used to, but before I sign off, may I wish all my followers a very Merry Christmas . . .


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PMSL love the cartoon Ian :)

Yes its been pretty rough here too, (well right across South Bucks, (work), and North Bucks (home))
Very wet very windy and gusty, right through Thursday. It started just as I pulled onto site
at about 07:15.

It was almost like the "freight train" through the night, the way that the Americans describe a tornado.
I'm sure it wasn't that bad, but I really couldn't be arsed to get up and look out the window if I'm honest :D.

Loads of flooding on the way to work this morning,
but passable with care Foot down and eyes shut :D
Bits of tree strewn around too, but again, no real "passing problems"

Another "wet day" here, well, into early afternoon, anyway but its clear blue skies now and rather settled.

Have a good one yourself Ian :thumbs:
 
merry christmas Ian ,and thanks for all the effort you put in .
 
Really rough night here on Monday, gales and torrential rain,lost power at 1am tusday morning and they were saying it wouldn't be back until Friday
but thankfully they got us back on about an hour
Floods everywhere, roads blocked total nightmare :(
Saw one house where the whole pointed end of the side wall and part of roof was down, fallen onto their car, not a good thing to happen on christmas eve
 
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Hi All. Hope you all had a good Christmas break.

Indeed it got quite stormy again in the early hours of Friday morning at this end with gusts in excess of 60 mph, but when the wind died down at 7 am, it was replaced by a burst of torrential rain which picked out another leak on my roof (I've only just got one part fixed up).
Needless to say, I'm a bit fed up with the wind. Oh, all this is actually typical winter-fair where our climate has reset to default mode but I could have done without this recent stormy type winds.
We have two further bouts of wet and gusty stuff to look forward to over the UK as we go into next week but unlike the recent stuff, these are not associated with a rapidly deepening "bomb" depression, nor is the jet stream is at it's most strongest but nonetheless it is going to remain very unsettled all the same.
The first lot of wet and windy weather will peak on Monday mid-day - thus making for a rather miserable start to the working week and again on Wednesday afternoon/early evening. I've noticed both spells are daytime events rather than in the middle of the night here at Kent (that makes a change as the strongest winds ALWAYS seem to occur in the middle of the night!) so that may give transport firms further headaches with people wanting to go about their usual routine - although Wednesday is a bank holiday.
Even next weekend is looking windy and unsettled with strong westerly winds but there are signs of things settling down along with cooler temperatures as we go into the second week of January but that is light years in forecasting terms - and whether that'll then lead to wintry weather later on down the line really is another matter for another time.

To think I've started this thead off moaning about how dry it has been.
 
To think I've started this thead off moaning about how dry it has been.
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You and your big mouth!:mad::bat::troll:
 
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You and your big mouth!:mad::bat::troll:
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:help: :D I'm sure we'll go onto having an awsome summer to make up for it. This does have a 1990 look and feel about it all (windy winter which included a 100 mph gust on Burns Day but it lead to a respectable spring and summer where temperatures reached 32 C and above for more than a week in August).

Or was it 1984?
 
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As usual, we're pretty much guaranteed 4 weeks of almost unbroken sun this summer - 2 weeks in June and another 2 at the end of august/beginning of September. Nod's law states that the UK will be fine while we're away too!

We can live without the high winds over the winter though, most of the fence panels are 20 or so years old now and although we (I) keep our side treated, I'm not so sure our neighbours do the same.
 
As the wind blow for the 765th time so far this year . . . yes, I know it's only five days into 2014.

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I think at this point the weather really is speaking for itself but hope you all are handling it with little problems, thankfuly I don't live in a flood plain but boy, I'm utterly bored of this wind!

The bad news is that this wind and showery rain is set to continue into tomorrow and Tuesday, along with the news-making tidal swells over Southern and Western coastal parts - but the good news is that this should be the last of this rough stuff for a while as the model outputs are painting a more calmer picture from Wedneday onwards, even though there'll still be some rain about.
Having said that, I cannot see any real sign of proper wintry weather for the next 15 days, though.
 
Glad the rough stuff's nearly over! [smuggit]I deliberately bought a house way up the hill to reduce the chance of flooding and also made sure it was to the East of the ridge so we get some shelter from the wind. Usually![/smuggit] The flattish bit at the back of the aerial has been slightly loose for ages and was clattering well but is still up there (and working), all other parts of the house have also survived - one fence panel has shed the capping batten but that's the cat's fault, it's her favourite scratching area. Even the bird feeders have come through unscathed! I did take them down for the first blow but left them out for the most recent one.

Need to do a little searching for some older photos of the bridge near the pub we usually have a carvery at to post comparison shots with the one I snapped today. They have their flood reduction measures deployed, as do some friends who have never actually been flooded out but do get too close for comfort to it with salt water when tides are high and the wind's causing a storm surge.

Quite fancied a trip to Exmouth but didn't really want to subject either car to sand blasting with salt water in the air! One silly bu99er on the Tamar seems to be missing after going out to snap the floods and I reckon the emergency services and volunteer organizations have enough to do without incidents like that. Maybe a train journey if the tides are still high at the right times.
 
As it seem like being the wettest winter in a thousand years.

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Can't really add any more to that, especially since there isn't a sniff of any real wintry weather over most of the UK in the medium range forecast (up to 16 days).
 
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