Wind watch weekend of 8th Feb

Irish sea area getting pretty windy, up to storm force 10 overnight at times according to the local forecast. Once again not covered by met office weather warnings!!!

We do seem to be ahead of them OYBBK, they've extended the edge of the warning area southwards again!

Check rail journeys in the south before setting off home this evening - lots of problems with trees down on lines.

Maybe we should take over the warnings page eh Gloria?

They do seem to be operating in a very reactive rather than proactive way at the moment.

Solo ~ you might want to check any other trees/garden things as there is now a metoffice wind warning for the south coast for today.

Yes, I liked the ivy covering which is probably the reason I left it but, it's down now. I just hope the other trees don't come down too.

I'm in the south-east.

Netweather's thoughts on Storm Erik (as it's been named by Met Eireann.)

Updated weather warnings. Edge of warning area has been extended southwards but only applies to tomorrow. Nothing for England/southern coasts today

BiddyPop ~ hope it helps!
Having stayed on the south-west coast (Kenmare area), I know it does get rather 'blowy' <understatement> that side of the country!

Storm showing up well here.

Dawlish is looking a little stormy at the moment.

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!).

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.

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)

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

That was careless....

Was it one that you minded?

I lost a tree last night.

babies for all?

do watch out for stork Eric though.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?!😁