Storm Eowyn.

[Drago]

60MPH winds forecast for Poshshire, which means a stiff breeze if my experience of forecasts is anything to go by.

 

[Marchrider]

still not sure what to make of this one, is the met office getting carried away and sensationalising it ? predicted low of 939, yes that is low nd its going to be very windy, but compared to Arwin (the storm no one down south even heard about) was 928mb , and that storm was just incredible (got about 7 years worth of firewood after that (still burning it)

bbc chart shows 80mph gust

this site is probably more meaningful with traditional forecasting numbers
https://www.xcweather.co.uk/

shows steady 43mph at 12am fri, which is force 8 which is a very windy day, possbly damaging (i'm not underestimating what is coming). But these reports of 70, 80 mph gusts are just sensationalising in the same way as they do when they start giving temperatures in wind chill

 

[grldtnr]

Oh, another..?

Evidently the ten we had last year were insufficient. It's almost like we've ruined the planet or something...

Almost? Don't want to be a climate change protagonist......but hasn't mankind done that already.....not a day goes by without me seeing something that's just been dumped for others to clear up....... eventually .
Yes, we are ruining our environment.

Off topic but need to vent my spleen.

 

[grldtnr]

@Brandane I saw a gritter gritting today.
The roads were a sheet of ice during the last (forecast well in advance) icy spell, now they are gritting for the wind coming

Well that's pointless, the wind will blow the grit away ,where it will do no good

 

[Marchrider]

Almost? Don't want to be a climate change protagonist......but hasn't mankind done that already.....not a day goes by without me seeing something that's just been dumped for others to clear up....... eventually .
Yes, we are ruining our environment.

Off topic but need to vent my spleen.

Drill Baby Drill will ensure decades of more and more exciting weather - may as well sit back and enjoy it (until your roof blows off or something)

 

[Time Waster]

So looking at the post above with 80mph and 43mph depending on the site. Does this mean that the higher figures are the pealk gusts with a lower average wind speed of 43mph? I recall a windy night on top of a Lakeland fell when it was continuously strong winds from the side and every so often you got a peak spell with higher gusts for 30 s to maybe a couple of minutes. Like a swell with high waves that then drops off and you have to wait for up to 10 minutes for the next swell to come in during which you had small waves you can not surf on.

In that fell top session it got to about 70mph according to weather site records. It was strong enough for horizontal wind wtihout those gust periods but those lower average winds were bad enough.

Met office has 78mph here. Not a worry as I live with a hill behind, houses either side and only one direction for the wind to com to actually hit our house hard. So it is unlikely we will see roof damage or anything. Indeed we often do not really hear the winds blowing over the house. However that storm that blew in from the wrong direction a few years ago was terrifying. IT sounded like a jet engine roaring overhead for a long time in each spell of the peak gusts. I gues that was due to the wind direction.

Keep safe in the storm if it is bad. I will be WFH today and Friday. I have done my days on site already this week.

 

[fossyant]

60MPH winds forecast for Poshshire, which means a stiff breeze if my experience of forecasts is anything to go by.

Lay off the beans at breakfast tomorrow morning !

 

[fossyant]

Oh the wheelie bins, fear for them !

 

[Alex321]

So looking at the post above with 80mph and 43mph depending on the site. Does this mean that the higher figures are the pealk gusts with a lower average wind speed of 43mph?

Yes, that is exactly what it means.

I don't know why @Marchrider thinks that is "sensationalising" it, as gusts can often be more damaging than a steady wind, as they put a sudden strain on whatever they are hitting.

 

[wafter]

Almost? Don't want to be a climate change protagonist......but hasn't mankind done that already.....not a day goes by without me seeing something that's just been dumped for others to clear up....... eventually .
Yes, we are ruining our environment.

Off topic but need to vent my spleen.

Indeed - the intended seething sarcasm / irony isn't necessarily obvious in the text

 

[Drago]

Drill Baby Drill will ensure decades of more and more exciting weather - may as well sit back and enjoy it (until your roof blows off or something)

Yet the people who complain the loudest about this usually have cars. Roger Hallam has six vans, campers and Land Rovers, none of the modern low emissions sort. The US climate envoy Co owns a private jet and owns shares in a private jet leasing company. Unsurprisingly no one listens to these muppets.

We're doomed.

The best we can do is for us each do our little bit, grow some food in the garden, store some rainwater, walk or cycle to the shop, buy a bit from the charity shop instead of new from Vietnam, in the hope that someone may follow our example. I doubt it will work, but that's all we can do.

 

[Marchrider]

Yes, that is exactly what it means.

I don't know why @Marchrider thinks that is "sensationalising" it, as gusts can often be more damaging than a steady wind, as they put a sudden strain on whatever they are hitting.

winds have always been gusty overland, so a wind with a mean of 45 (force 8) always had meaning, one would know at that strength some trees would come down. But in the over exaggerating over sensationalising modern media, we need bigger figures, so they now want to predict the maximum gust as it is more alarmist - its just click-bait

Same with temperatures, most people with an ounce would now if is 3° above and windy at the same time it will be extra cold, but then comes the extra alarmist wind-chill figure, its going to be -10°c. and now we don't know if the -10 is the real temp or the 'feels like' temperature

 

[Sterlo]

Strange looking weekend here. Forecast is 50+mph Friday, Saturday looks quite calm, then picking up again Sunday and Monday.

 

[Chislenko]

Oh the wheelie bins, fear for them !

I look forward to collecting all the coke cans and plastic milk bottles that bypass everybody else's garden and find a home in ours.

 

[Marchrider]

Yet the people who complain the loudest about this usually have cars. Roger Hallam has six vans, campers and Land Rovers, none of the modern low emissions sort. The US climate envoy Co owns a private jet and owns shares in a private jet leasing company. Unsurprisingly no one listens to these muppets.

We're doomed.

The best we can do is for us each do our little bit, grow some food in the garden, store some rainwater, walk or cycle to the shop, buy a bit from the charity shop instead of new from Vietnam, in the hope that someone may follow our example. I doubt it will work, but that's all we can do.

Whats coming is coming, may as well sit back and enjoy it, we will never do what is needed - I've always like BIG weather and the future holds lots of that, and if I had not made other arrangements me and my little bicycle would be out there on friday enjoying its awesome power

anyway, most go and knock out a few miles out before the rain arrives