Tomorrows storm upgraded to Red alert

[Ajax Bay]

we can get back on topic and talk about tomorrow's storm again!
Don't think it's been given a name yet,

'Cos it's not a storm (mean wind speed 52mph) - your severe gale forecast is par for the Clyde in winter, surely. Names need to mean something, you know.
Stop trying to suggest this is a north of Great Britain v south of Great Britain thing.

 

[Toshiba Boy]

'Cos it's not a storm (mean wind speed 52mph) - your severe gale forecast is par for the Clyde in winter, surely. Names need to mean something, you know.
Stop trying to suggest this is a north of Great Britain v south of Great Britain thing.

Agree. I personally have never experienced wind like we had here on the West Somerset coast mid morning yesterday, in my 42 years in the West Midlands, or last 16 years "down" here. We have c40mph wind today, and forecast 50 mph tomorrow, but hey, we live on an island on the edge of the North Atlantic.

 

[DaveReading]

Watched one that had diverted from Leeds-Bradford to Manchester, go back to Leeds-Bradford. Two failed attempts at landing before diverting to Teeside, where it landed on the second attempt.

It came in at 45° to the runway at Leeds-Bradford, the second time.

That I'd like to have seen - it's what comes of having a runway oriented NW/SE in the UK.

Further south they still had a fair amount of drift. Landing at Heathrow (westerly into a south-westerly wind) typical drift angle was about 10-12° (which still looks pretty hairy).

 

[Electric_Andy]

Bad here in Plymouth today. Almost as bad as yesterday but this time with rain.

 

[classic33]

That I'd like to have seen - it's what comes of having a runway oriented NW/SE in the UK.

Further south they still had a fair amount of drift. Landing at Heathrow (westerly into a south-westerly wind) typical drift angle was about 10-12° (which still looks pretty hairy).

Seen them approach that way when coming in from the tunnel end, first time I've seen it from the opposite direction.

 

[Chislenko]

Very little sighting of the Airbus Beluga this week, usually a couple a day come in over our house to land at Hawarden. I think from memory they have a maximum windspeed in which they can land.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Exactly! The wind speed forecast for here is as bad as Friday’s Eunice, but because London won’t be affected then they don’t really seem bothered…🤷‍♂️

Yesterday’s Eunice was gusting up to 90 mph (with 122 mph seen) or more where as that forecast only shows peak gusts of 63 mph and only for an hour. Wind speed in that forecast is 30% lower. that forecast isn’t anywhere near as bad as yesterday.

 

[figbat]

Out today - still windy and the worst of it on a longer climb. Two trees down; one I leapt off and hopped over CX-style, the other needed me to post the bike through the tree and climb through after it. Posted a warning on local riding WhatsApp and also picked up a load of still-full wheelie bins, gathering them together in a way that would hopefully reduce the chance of future capsize.

Overall though not that bad in the ‘hood.

 

[Mike_P]

"The Met Office, Met Éireann and KNMI have announced the storm names they have selected from over 10,000 submissions put forward by the UK public in summer 2021. The names chosen reflect the diversity of the UK, Ireland and the Netherlands."
I find it difficult to believe that "the UK public" submitted GLADYS (lovely name though it is) in any great number. I suppose one could say the same about EUNICE (lovely name though it is).
"there are no storms [or names] for Q, U, X, Y and Z" so eat your heart out Quentin, Una, Xavier, Yvette and Zebidee]

Storm Zebidee would be a bad one bouncing back and forth! Fences and trees flattened locally; garden fence has a wobbly post so I had strappped it to the next one and its still upright. Local sensationalist media had to run with a headliine of Tree could have falled on West Park (the bit of the A61 next to where fan parks have been) when it fact it "only" fell on a cabmans shelter which obviously was not sensational enough.

 

[Brandane]

'Cos it's not a storm (mean wind speed 52mph) - your severe gale forecast is par for the Clyde in winter, surely. Names need to mean something, you know.
Stop trying to suggest this is a north of Great Britain v south of Great Britain thing.

Take a look at your own link again. This time, look at the column titled "limits of wind speed", then tell me if you still think that gusts of 53 to 63 mph over a period of 9 hours doesn't constitute a "storm" (don't forget to convert knots to MPH as a nautical mile is longer than a standard mile, as I'm sure you know. That will actually help your case, but it's still a storm).

By the way, the met office themselves don't seem to agree with your definition:

 

[Roseland triker]

🍿🍿🍿

 

[Ajax Bay]

This is not a storm (Force 10) - happy days manning St Ann's Head coastguard station (12 hour watches, days and nights) a long, long time ago).
I don't know what "Limits of wind speed" means either, but it's not max gust (otherwise why the lower limit)? [Storm = 48-55kn]
And here's the Met Office forecast for Largs:
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public...&fcTime=1645390800&zoom=8&lon=-4.87&lat=55.79
Sun/Mon wind (mean) never above 30mph and gusts never above 50mph. So no storm, as sensibly decided by the excellent Met Office just up the road.
Save some 🍿 for me @Roseland triker

 

[Ajax Bay]

 

[SydZ]

Well it certainly was round here.

 

[geocycle]

Big coat day in north lancs and Cumbria yesterday. Building damaged at work, couldn’t walk into the wind at all, even saw a blackbird up ended! Today cold and wet, then snow, then tailed into a pleasant afternoon. More gales tomorrow, no cycling and fed up of winter now.