Tomorrows storm upgraded to Red alert

[classic33]

1. Yellow warnings for wind are enough to be named storms. Which is all most of them have been, and the country copes with yellow level just fine. Eunice was two levels higher as a red warning. I can't remember the last red warning we had round here. Arwen was Amber I believe, and was more problematic than the yellows, but still didn't cause quite as much immediate disruption.

2. The naming period runs September - August, not January - December, and sometimes what most of us would consider a single storm get two names.

Arwen was a red warning round these parts. Only three months previous.

 

[fossyant]

Tree down this afternoon locally on the main road and a fair bit of flooding. Just drove through an exhaust deep flood, but then the heavy rain came, so detoured on the way back to avoid it.

 

[Roseland triker]

FFS MORE KIN FENCE GONE.


We're getting smashed TF again....

 

[Roseland triker]

Seriously people there's more moving up.

 

[Dave 123]

I went for a walk in the local woods this afternoon.

There are a few big beech and oak down, plus major limbs.

sad, but presents an opportunity for saplings etc.

 

[Roseland triker]

Brutal here. Mini tornado just gone up the river fal

 

[gbb]

We have generally escaped the worst here, but windy but no big deal but we litterally jusst had a sudden squally wind and rain shower, blowing rain almost sideways, fairly rattling a fence panel, ironically the one thats been blown down twice in the past. But its survived.

One bonus of the rain over the last few days, took Digby the dog for a walk, he found a huge puddle in a field and went ballistic, charging in and out, splashing amd almost wallowing in it, showing his true labrador traits i struggled to get him away from it.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

 

[DCLane]

Brutal, yet there was racing today in Wakefield and I ended up doing the E123 in heavy rain and strong winds (son no. 2 plus me on his Cervelo):

 

[Roseland triker]

You could do with some mountain bikes....

 

[Alex321]

I went for a walk in the local woods this afternoon.

There are a few big beech and oak down, plus major limbs.

sad, but presents an opportunity for saplings etc.

For me, also presents an opportunity t09 get some logs for turning

 

[gavgav]

Wind and rain both worse in Shropshire today, than they were on Friday from Eunice. Tree down just round the corner from where I live, River Severn expected to go higher than it’s ever been since records began and the local brook has cut the estate off from Reabrook. Not good times

 

[nickyboy]

Main road in and out of Glossop closed due to flooding and some residents evacuated.

It'll be chaos if the closure is still in place tomorrow as the alternative route out is via a narrow bridge with traffic lights

Glossop does have a history of occasional flooding as it's effectively the handle of a big pan of hills surrounding it so any water that lands there has to pass through the town

 

[Chislenko]

Must admit Franklin giving us a lot more bother than the previous two (North East Wales / Cheshire borders)

 

[Accy cyclist]

I've just let my mutt out for a pee and noticed that my waste cardboard/paper recycling wheelie bin has blown over again.