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Weather

Wind watch weekend of 8th Feb

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OhYouBadBadKitten · 06/02/2019 09:57

Just one to watch. I think warnings will be going out later today. Nothing too extreme, but it's not been properly windy for ages and with damaged trees from the snow and lots of rain in the same system, there could be some low level disruption.
High Wind right across the uk but southern coasts (gusts to 70?) and northern England and Wales (gusts to 80?) could take the brunt of this one.

Then Saturday/Sunday there is the potential for a different system bringing high winds across central and southern areas into East Anglia (with maybe a little snow embedded?)

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GloriaSmud · 06/02/2019 10:42

Wind gusts for 3pm Friday.

Wind watch weekend of 8th Feb

GloriaSmud · 06/02/2019 10:51

Weather warnings from today until Saturday.
(Was there anything in the way of strong winds due today?)

OhYouBadBadKitten · 06/02/2019 11:08

I didn't think tonight's warranted warning about

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GloriaSmud · 06/02/2019 11:14

No ~ am too!
Might be 'a bit blowy' but nothing too dramatic!

BlackeyedGruesome · 06/02/2019 13:05

weather forcast said it was getting windy in the south... may that is why? (presumably people in the north walk round with lead in the bottom their boots)

OhYouBadBadKitten · 06/02/2019 18:15

Actually, tonight could be surprisingly nasty in the south according to some forecasters.

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GloriaSmud · 06/02/2019 18:53

Netweather have a bit about tonight's weather here ~ looks like the metoffice could see the way things were going this morning and that it needed a warning.

OhYouBadBadKitten · 06/02/2019 21:07

ermm, little bump in the hope people realise that tonight is included

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megletthesecond · 07/02/2019 08:15

Last night was awful. North Hampshire.
The wind kept us awake.
Fence panels seem to have had a miraculous escape .

BiddyPop · 07/02/2019 08:37

It was fine when I got home from work, but I got called back in and it was dreadeful! When I was coming home about 8:30, and only got worse.

I am supposed to be bringing 24 Cub scouts up the Dublin Mountains on Saturday morning- this seems slightly not sensible given these warnings.

Any ideas for an indoor session instead - maybe some good links to resources to teach and make weather interesting to 8-11 year olds?!😁

OhYouBadBadKitten · 07/02/2019 09:25

I totally slept through the wind, it was only when I saw branches down that I thought 'oh yeah....'

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GloriaSmud · 07/02/2019 11:19

Biddy Pop ~ some weather experiments here (who knew the metoffice have a 'weather experiment' page!)

GloriaSmud · 07/02/2019 11:25

Updated weather warnings ~ looks like the metoffice have had a rethink on the the areas that might be affected.

GloriaSmud · 07/02/2019 14:25

Looking at the wind gusts here (tomorrow 1pm), I wonder if the metoffice might have to adjust their warnings again.

Wind watch weekend of 8th Feb

OhYouBadBadKitten · 07/02/2019 14:56

I wonder if a second warning area through channel areas will be posted.

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ranava · 07/02/2019 15:29

Do you think it'll be alright to drive from Birmingham to London tomorrow? Hate driving in the wind!

OhYouBadBadKitten · 07/02/2019 17:05

I think you'll be ok, it might be a bit tuggy, but it should be ok.

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BlackeyedGruesome · 07/02/2019 22:00

do watch out for stork Eric though.

OhYouBadBadKitten · 07/02/2019 22:01

babies for all?

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Solo · 07/02/2019 22:02

I lost a tree last night.

OhYouBadBadKitten · 07/02/2019 22:11

That was careless....

Was it one that you minded?

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Solo · 07/02/2019 23:17

I think it was fairly dead, tbh but, it was standing there dead for a very long time, covered with ivy.

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GloriaSmud · 08/02/2019 07:41

Oh but ivy-covered trees are nice ~ they look that they've had a 'well-lived' life, even if it's just holding up some ivy in their later years!

Bit windy here (Leicester), stronger stuff to come later, I think. Still think the metoffice are going to adjust their weather warnings (to cover England/a bit more of the south ~ and channel coasts, as OYBBK said yesterday)

OhYouBadBadKitten · 08/02/2019 07:49

That's sad re the tree.

It's fairly disgusting here in the south. I have mud prints all over the table from the cats to prove it. I'm considering installing a car wash type installation in place of the cat flap.

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BiddyPop · 08/02/2019 08:46

Ooh thanks for that Gloria!

We’re in a calm hole just now, comparatively, but it’s still pretty windy in our yellow alert area.

DH, of course, has a meeting in the city in the orange alert area (west coast Ireland) and drove there this morning - he said there was a lot of rain early on but ok now he’s through that, bit windy tho ( he’s the one who drove us “home” for Christmas one year in a storm blowing slates all over the road from roofs and not passing any trucks given their wobbles!).

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