Where I am the rain thrashed down all night and now the wind is up above 60mph according to the Beeb (see below). I realise many folks in the UK will cop it worse than me, and know already @weave has lost his fence. My main concern is my roof was made by a cowboy roofer now in the nick so this will be a test of his work, I guess
I hope we can get through this with no loss of life and appreciate it is probably minor in comparison to other stuff in the world but it is a 'once in a decade or two' occurrence (again, according to the Beeb)

I do hope your roof is ok Mick.
And I didn't realise that Weave had lost his fence (hope you can sort it Chris - maybe not today though).
Anyway, I hope it's not too bad everywhere and that people stay safe.

As for down here. The Met Office have been going on about it for days and we have an Amber warning for wind. Indeed it's blowing in excess of 50mph at the moment but it's nothing unusual for down here, just a bit of a blow.
We often get worse with no weather warnings.

Looks ok in South Africa though as I watch the cricket on the tv.

It's wild and woolly in Peterborough now. Harvey's dog walk was curtailed after we watched a tree come down in the local park.

Yeah, sunny there. 

Rains lashing down here as I type this. Wind on Bealman's weather station peaked at 63 km/hr earlier today.

All in all, a normal Australian day 

Blowing quite nicely down here on the Sussex coast. Lost all our fences over the last few years but now surrounded by lovely new ones with concrete posts so fingers crossed. The bit I hate most about gales is the noise from the roof when a big gust rattles the tiles. I know nowt will happen but the noise is amplified by the attic space and it always sounds like we're about to become open plan!

Wind just maxing out at 71 mph here in Lincolnshire, if the Beeb weather app is to be believed.

I've been out and checked all is right with my world and can see no damage in my immediate neighbourhood other than the new fence and gate the guy next door put up last autumn is looking like it may succumb soon. I did try to tell him that a six foot panel fence on 3" posts was likely to fail, but........

Main worry is the large tree in his back garden that, should it fail in the south westerly gale, will more than likely land on my bedroom!

Yeah, it's the trees that you have to worry about.

Chez Bealman has had tiles fly off over the years, but I've had all the trees around the house removed. Sorry to the greenies!

In a freak accident last year a lady was stopped at lights in Sydney and a gumtree fell on the car, killing her.

Hope you're all safe over there. 

We have a wind constant of 55km/h but gusts over 80km/h the unfortunate thing for us is in a SSW direction that we have the wind howling is nothing breaks it for about 23miles so we get quite a battering.

Our stable block has lost 3 8x4 sheets of ply covering the original glass light ridge section. And the way it's going the other 8 will follow suit. Luckily all landing on a concrete pad behind the building only used to empty the cess pits.

Looks like I'll be back on a roof this week. No need for a grinder this time though 

Quote from: port perran on February 09, 2020, 10:14:27 AM
I do hope your roof is ok Mick.
And I didn't realise that Weave had lost his fence (hope you can sort it Chris - maybe not today though).
Anyway, I hope it's not too bad everywhere and that people stay safe.

As for down here. The Met Office have been going on about it for days and we have an Amber warning for wind. Indeed it's blowing in excess of 50mph at the moment but it's nothing unusual for down here, just a bit of a blow.
We often get worse with no weather warnings.

Looks ok in South Africa though as I watch the cricket on the tv.

I have to agree Martin.
Looking out my bedroom window towards the entrance to Falmouth harbour it's rough, but I have seen the wind and waves a lot stronger with little or no warnings.  That said it may well get worse as the day goes on.  I expect Porthleven is taking a battering though.

Conservatory aka mancave/layout room has sprung a leak (again) :'(
Polythene dust sheet back on and I just hope it's down to the volume of rain hitting an odd angle to ingress. The rain ½ an hour ago was so heavy it looked just like a thick fog from the window of my euphemistically named 'studio' (actually a complete untidy  hole )

Raining & winds around 75mph here on the Isle of Wight at the moment.

Cheers, Stu

Blowing a hooley here in the far west of Cornwall, washing machine delivery postponed until tomorrow. Stay safe everyone.

We have been rather fortunate where we are - being roughly equidistant from the west and east coasts may help. There has been a lot of rain overnight and it is very windy, with some strong gusts though. I have just been for a walk round and, apart from a gnome, nothing seems out of place. Having just checked my electricity supply app, I can see that there are a lot of power outages across the country though which are affecting about 10k customers, (fingers crossed here). I hope none of you suffer any real damage, (apart from a few fence panels), and your leak @Newportnobby is only temporary Mick.

Addit: The Irish Independent newspaper is saying that approximately 15K homes are without power.

It's been pretty draughty here on the South-West Cumbria coast. It's rained a heck of a lot and there are lots of reports of flooded roads in the area.
About all I've noticed of the wind was Ciara's First Concerto for Coal Bunker Lid and Unsecured Wheelbarrow in my neighbour's sideway.

Both wind and rain have eased up for now and it's even been sunny for a while but I believe that there's more of both wind and rain coming in.

Well it made the drive to work at 5am errr interesting!
But thankfully working inside the depot building today and not fuel point as I would probably either drowned or been blown off into the yonder!!
Although as pasted all over the news its causing chaos for the rail network we have had to curtail a few services and watching planned enginnering trains roll back in with even dropping a bit of ballast in anger!