It's windy and a little wet in Minehead right now but I hope all those on the South Coast have put their trains away and put sandbags outside their front/back doors. I've just seen a train go through Dawlish, unbelievable!
For those interested watch here:
Dawlish webcam (https://www.webcamtaxi.com/en/england/devon/dawlish.html)
EDIT: I've just seen another. Amazed they're running tonight. I'll try to get a screen grab if another goes past.
Train!
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Just took a look at that web cam. Interesting, even though it's almost midnight there. I could see the waves quite clearly.
(It's almost 11am here)
It's still quite light down there, I think everyone has been panic buying candles.
This is the tallest wave I've seen. Missed a few though:
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I've turned into a bit of a trainspotter tonight, here's a shortie HST:
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Bit of a problem at our club room caused by last night's storm?
It was pretty violent down here.
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That's not too good.
Hope that it hasn't caused too much damage and can be repaired quickly-though I think the rest of the day is still supposed to be bad in your area.
A lot of rain here, but top wind speeds so far gusts about 45kts; the Harwich-Hook and Europoort ferries, and I think the Felixstowe-Rotterdam ones all seem to be running, if a little late. The Orwell bridge at Ipswich is closed, and that's causing absolute traffic gridlock and chaos through the town.
Martyn
I echo martyns comments
Hope the clubroom will be fixed and the layout is OK
Pretty wild rain where we are and gusts. Not been a day I wish to remember shunting coaches either with howling wind and driving rain
Really heavy wind and rain overnight here in the South East corner. In our back garden it's managed to shove a large storage box full of heavy garden tools 3m along and tip it over.
I was watching a live cam of Folkestone Harbour Arm earlier and that was pretty bracing, don't think they'll be selling much ice-cream today!
It's calmed down at the moment but expecting more later.
We seem to have got off quite lightly here in the Epsom area. A lot of rain through the night though, and my weather station recorded the lowest air pressure it's ever seen. Had to adjust the axes on the graphs my software generates every hour.
Why are people still towing caravans on the M5? I saw one on its side this morning causing huge tailbacks Southbound. There are dozens more travelling both North and South, I'm not sure how many of them will make it to their destination though. We've had warnings about this storm all week and yet people are still so stupid to be towing these flimsy boxes behind them. I on the other hand, sensibly decided not to do any work at my Minehead site today, had a lie in and I'm nearly home now :D
Hard to understand why someone would park their car next to the sea and then wonder why it got blown into it, and a couple who decided to walk along the seafront and then be surprised when a wave took them into the sea. The sea must have recognised them as :censored: 'cos it spat them back out again and the coastguard wasn't required. Are they trying for the Darwinian Prize?
Looks like we'll escape any really bad weather here in Lankyshire but please stay safe 'darn sarf'.
I certainly wouldn't want to be in the Channel Islands at present! :no:
Quote from: ntpntpntp on November 02, 2023, 11:10:21 AMReally heavy wind and rain overnight here in the South East corner. In our back garden it's managed to shove a large storage box full of heavy garden tools 3m along and tip it over.
I remember the storm of '87 - the "Don't worry there's not going to be a hurricane" one. My bus to work the next morning had to take a very circuituous route around Southampton city centre, to avoid all the fallen trees.
When we finally got onto the main road around the back of the docks, the inside lane was closed off because all the top 40' containers in the stacks beside the fence had shifted one stack along - except, of course the ones on the end stacks which had nowhere to go except down and bounce onto the road !!!
My very old barometer was reading 943 millibars before I tapped it (now 950) a few minutes ago, does that correspond with your readings Jim
@Jim Easterbrook ?
Cheers,
Tim (near High Wycombe)
My lowest reading was 954.4 hPa at 07:43 this morning. 943 would be very low, so you must have been nearer the centre of the storm. Or your barometer is uncalibrated.
I've just read that the Dutch have cancelled their annual "cycling into the wind" championships.
Probably the latter Jim, but I cannot recall ever seeing it that low before! It is not as windy here as expected (at the moment) though.
The Met Office has said that record low pressure for November was recorded at the centre of the depression; 953.3 at Plymouth, 958.5 at St Athans.
Don't know if that'll help you calibrate your barometers.
Martyn
We seem to have escaped the worst of it in this part of mid-Sussex. None of the trees in the wood behind us have come down. Despite our situation on top of a hill, we still managed to get a small lake in our back garden (our bedrock is Wealden clay). Oh yes, and our dustbin blew over... Our son and his family live in Hove, but we haven't had any cries for help from them so we assume they are OK.
Keep safe all.
Cheers,
Chris
Thank you Martyn
@martyn , I think my barometer is wrong - it must be about 80 years old and a heirloom! At least the pointer is going up and down the right direction.
Cheers,
Tim
Calibration is best done when a slow moving high is sitting over the UK, giving very similar pressure over a large area and not changing much. Then look at your nearest official weather stations and adjust your barometer to match.
You can select official stations on this map (which includes amateur stations, including mine, by default): https://wow.metoffice.gov.uk/
In Tenterden I'm enjoying my own micro climate. I had planned to stay indoors and get on with "stuff" but, despite being between Hastings and Dover (Albeit inland), there's not been enough wind to blow the leaves off the trees and I've even managed to do a spot of gardening.
Picked my last Cucumber, pruned the roses, cut back a Clematis and admired my one remaining Holyhock stem.
:hellosign: Martin
@port perran hope no serious damage to the club house.
Very interesting this morning on the N Cornwall coast this morning with my double decker bus at 0700, has calmed down now & actually stopped raining
stay safe regards Derek
Quote from: port perran on November 02, 2023, 09:59:33 AMBit of a problem at our club room caused by last night's storm?
It was pretty violent down here.
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New panel fixed and good as new.
In fact there will now be a scramble to move layouts under the new panel as it's soooooo much lighter ????
here in Crawley it has been very wet and a bit windy but nothing to get excited about
John
Quote from: port perran on November 02, 2023, 04:31:12 PMQuote from: port perran on November 02, 2023, 09:59:33 AMBit of a problem at our club room caused by last night's storm?
It was pretty violent down here.
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New panel fixed and good as new.
In fact there will now be a scramble to move layouts under the new panel as it's soooooo much lighter ????
You mean that you didn't bother to clean the one next to it while you (or whover) was up there? :D
Meanwhile in Southampton....
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And yet places either side of us got clobbered.
Very fortunate here in my area of east Berkshire; some rain and a bit blustery but just like a normal, autumn night/day.
It actually got a column in the local rag here!
Here in Norfolk we didn't get that much wind, but we have a lot of flooding, it's not deep but it is widespread.
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I should be sailing today, but it's been cancelled, we can't get near the boats due to the floods.
According to reports it's now deeper than that photo, the big car park is flooded, as is the big supermarket, that's the multi pitch roof building.