Tomorrows storm upgraded to Red alert

[Oldhippy]

Never mind, Sammy Sunshine and Henry Heatwave will be along in a few months

How long before the the rain clouds on the forecast have sad faces and smiling suns. Grrr!

 

[HLaB]

In East England it was almost as bad as Scotland gets 3 or 4 times a year and definitely merited the red warning

 

[geocycle]

Definitely a big coat day here, bits falling off roofs at work. Limited prospect of a ride this weekend.

 

[bagpuss]

Went out a walk PM wearing my Stetson ,has anyone here seen it

 

[Brandane]

In East England it was almost as bad as Scotland gets 3 or 4 times a year and definitely merited the red warning

You've been away a while then? It's up to about 3 or 4 times per month these days!

 

[johnnyb47]

I was expecting the worst today and battened down the hatches , but we thankfully missed the full brunt of it all.It was no more than a windy day and saw nothing interms of damage on the way home from work. After looking at the damage it's caused on the news were counting our blessings

 

[Ming the Merciless]

In East England it was almost as bad as Scotland gets 3 or 4 times a year and definitely merited the red warning

Yeah but total damage in Scotland is only £1.

 

[DCBassman]

Plenty of damage in the local area apparently, but where we are in the centre of town, it was all a bit of an anticlimax, to be honest.

 

[gavgav]

Thankfully only gusts up to 53mph in Shropshire, which to be fair was pretty much what the Met Office were predicting for us, but the BBC were predicting 70mph. Looks much worse to the South and so hope all are safe. It will be floods here, that cause the most damage, over the coming days.

 

[Jenkins]

Supposed to be flying ryanair from Stansted on Friday.
Hopefully cancelled.

If not, it’s been nice knowing you...

My sister was due to fly out to Lanzarote from Stansted at 10:15 on Friday. Her plane finally took off just after 16:35.

It could have been worse and you could have been on one of the incomming flights. Watching the amount of go-arounds and those in holding patterns on Flightradar24 was fun way of filling a quiet afternoon at work with Felixstowe Port having been shut down all day.

 

[cougie uk]

Not as bad in the North West as the January storm - I've never seen so many trees down as I did then. Poor trees are really getting a battering this year.

 

[Jenkins]

Anyone get some Strava PBs?

Too busy making sure I didn't get blown across the road and looking out for flying plastic bags & sheeting to worry about PBs on the commute.

 

[lazybloke]

The 4pm travel news on BBC Radio Surrey went on for ages to list about a gazillion blocked/closed roads; and that was on the A roads.

 

[Blue Hills]

one woman killed in north london, roof off the Dome about five miles away but my bit of south london nothing too dramatic at all - sheltered by the lie of the land I think and the wind direction. Wind direction seems to be key with this - a pilot on the beeb news said that that was why pilots could land OK at Heathrow.

(of course I could walk out later and get flattened by a weakened tree - was once very nearly killed by such a thing in calm conditions when sat in my car eating a butty)

 

[MontyVeda]

The wheelie bin across the road is upright again