Severe gales in SE overnight - please heed!

[OhYoubadbadKitten]

Just saw the met office forecast for wind along the SE coast in around 3am on their map. 78mph! That is certainly of damaging strength, both to trees and structurally.

Take down or at least remove nets from trampolines and weight them down! Sort out those dodgy fences and tuck your wheelie bins away!

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I'm not going to be around this morning, please bump. Cos it could save some people a lot of hassle.

Thanks Kitten, will get busy with that today.

im supposed to be driving across to southampton and coming back this evening. Im reading it that the worst wont start until later tonight? Is that correct?

Thanks and bump.

Eek! Cant see the warning map on my phone so I will assume that's me included in Kent? May have to get out of bed now to secure the bins and stuff.

Ho hum.

Bumping. We had a tree blown over in our garden from the wind the other day - that was already dead but it didn't take much. Freaked me out a bit...!

Thanks and bump, it does make me nervous. Will be keeping a close eye on the warnings.

Correct purple, just the rain to contend with. Worst area and time fir wind 3am-6am on Sussex coast.
Am on phone, dh driving. Very bumpy and crap signal!

Couldn't sleep last night so I devised an easy way for people to work out wind direction in a storm. Close your right fist over the low pressure when you are looking at a weather chart. Follow your fingers round, see how they go anticlockwise and in towards the centre? That's the same as the direction of the wind wherever you are relative to the low.
Thanks fir bumping, you are all stars!

The severe weather warnings are red for tonight for a lot of the British Isles. Please follow this link and put in your postcode/town to see if you are in an area at risk.

Or, if you want someone else to put in a town or postcode because you're on a phone, post your request.

that's fir floods turquoise? Please can you put that link also on to the 'lots of rain warnings' thread too where people are following the flood potential. Thanks!

I've just checked our postcode, we are not in a known flood risk area. The main problem here tends to be the street drains not coping, which is worse at this time of year because they get clogged with leaves. My particular worry is the wind because we have tall trees close to our house.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/weather/1617658-Lots-of-rain-warnings is link for that thread.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/weather/1617658-Lots-of-rain-warnings

Bumping and asking a question:

Is anyone else having trouble with the MetOffice pages loading? Well, not the page itself, but the maps or whatever. Even if I leave the tab open and go back 10 or 15 minutes later it still just has the green "loading" bar up. It doesn't matter whether I click a link or go direct to the site btw.

I had that on the Ipad Zombies, on the main computer now and it opened right away.

I'm on a very high spec laptop, WhoKnows. I had the same problem yesterday as well.

Ah, I wondered if it was just incompatible with mobile devices, obviously not then. I don't really have any other suggestions, sorry.

On my iPad I have to go on to another tab and then back again to get met office map to load a new time slot. Very irritating.
Back in bumpy car, roads flooding.

I just picked up my phone which I left it loading on in a window a few hours ago and it had opened eventually. Hope you have a safe journey Kitten.

It's just started raining here in Leicester.
DD1's in London on a school trip and is due to be back at Leicester train station, at 9.30pm. While I know it's going to be a wet day for them, I hope they'll have left by the time the proper gales start.

old style met office warnings page works much better for a quick glance if its playing up for you.
Back safe and sound! Much drier away from the coast.

Top gusts now shown by met office to be a little lower at 72mph, but remember that local topology can cause increased gust speeds and sometimes the met office under plays it a little on their maps. Still looks to be between 3am and 6am for Sussex at the worst of it wind wise.

Still the models aren't concurring about the depth and track of the low tonight!!! As I've said before on other threads these are crucial as to how badly people will be affected. If it goes further south, then the severe gust wind field will be out over the channel and northern France. If it goes further north more will be exposed to damaging winds. a shallower solution means less wind, a deeper solution more.
Aargh!!