Storm Eunice

[stevewalker]

Still pretty windy around Manchester. I was feeling tired (too many late nights) and went for a lie down this evening, only to be kept awake by rattling and creaking. I was worried what it was until I eventually worked out that it was the guttering lifting in the high wind, scraping up its brackets and rattling within them. Even then it was too noisy to sleep. This could be a long night!

[Newportnobby]

Prediction for Storm Franklin as at 04.45 this morning. Note the wind speeds are mean speeds, not just gusts.

[lil chris]

Franklin seems windier here than Eunice, trees are all over the place.

[stevewalker]

My kids are off school today. Their bus didn't turn up and neither did the following one 15 minutes later, even though they waited over 3/4 of an hour. We can only assume that it is to do with the weather. Normally I'd come out of work and take them if that happened, but that takes well over an hour, then I may have to do it again at the end of the day (and they finish an hour apart), plus I've got a hospital visit this afternoon and there'd simply be hardly any of the working day left!

[guest311]

Prediction for Storm Franklin as at 04.45 this morning. Note the wind speeds are mean speeds, not just gusts.

I take that means you northerners will need to
roll your shirt sleeves down
think about putting on a cardigan
put a chinstrap on your cloth cap 

[The Q]

now at 10:40 ish Franklin is blowing 53 here on the Norfolk coast, it was 65 an hour ago

[stevewalker]

I take that means you northerners will need to
roll your shirt sleeves down
think about putting on a cardigan
put a chinstrap on your cloth cap 

I can't roll my shirtsleeves down, as I'm wearing a tee-shirt. If I was going to the office today, I'd be wearing a short-sleeved office shirt - no jacket, no coat.

I can't stand cardigans or jumpers and I hardly ever put a coat on, unless it's throwing it down or I'm liable to be outside for a fairly long time, mid winter.

The only hat I possess is a red fedora.

[Newportnobby]

[martyn]

I think the black arrow wind speeds on the BBC website are gusts, usually when they are predicted to be above about 35 or 40 mph.

Compare with wind speeds on the Met Office website for the same time.

I it take Tynesiders still don't need a coat... 

My local port website gave highest gusts of around 50 knots on one remote site, around 58 kts on another.

Martyn

[Trainfish]

I visited 1 of my sites today to find this had happened on Friday. If you look in the background of the first picture you will see what these "Readycamp" tents should look like:



The next 2 pictures show what they shouldn't look like:





Luckily nobody was in these 2 at the time.

Then the site manager showed me a video which I just had to borrow from him:

[Newportnobby]

Looks like one was trying to mate with the other and got well rebuffed!

I visited 1 of my sites today

Your sites? I never realised you were a property magnate

[guest311]

by the look of it  he isn't now 

[TrevL]

Looks like parts of Aus. near George @Bealman are getting flash floods today.

[PLD]

I visited 1 of my sites today

Your sites? I never realised you were a property magnate

Some magnets attract; others... ... ... 

[Bealman]

Looks like parts of Aus. near George @Bealman are getting flash floods today.

Yeah, it's pretty wet here at the moment. Raining quite heavily as I write this, actually!