the wind is being unreasonable

[WeirdArchitecture]

wtf, i am in the north west, few hours back the wind picked up like nothing i have heard in years. I tis FIERCE!

Anyone else experiencing it?

It is extremely powerful and quite awe inspiring. The noise is seriously dark and creepy. Went outside and was almost taken off my feet. Trees bent double, howling, etc.

When I went to bed, my bit of Derbyshire was totally normal. The wind got up in the night though and sounded pretty scary! I got up at at 5 and realised my shed has blown open, there's snow inside it and bits blown everywhere, and my largest, heaviest plant pot has blown right over - a huge tub which I can't physically move on my own, it's an enormous wooden tub just above knee height and very wide, with a tree in it. Once it's light enough I'll have to get outside and see what's what. No roof damage though that I can see.

Spare a thought for those of us on the east coast who had a red warning (very rare to have a red for wind). First time I've ever seen water coming over our sea wall - it's incredibly high as has a road directly on the other side. I'm just outside the red zone too. (MN style diagram showing the warning areas not mine - provided by windy Wilson, the amateur weatherman much of Scotland is familiar with). Trains are cancelled up and down the east coast line and last night parts of the A1 were closed by tea time.

@MaskingForIt

When is it due to hit the SW? I'm in ND.

Look at a weather forecast.

I don't think it is.

I'm a bit worried about my parents in north Wales, half way up a mountain. Haven't heard from my mum since about 6 last night, and she normally emails through the evening and again in the early morning, so I'm guessing their power and/or internet is down. I think it was during the Beast from the East when her roof and trees came down last time, not sure how this one is comparing.

@BitchIAmFromChicago

Flight radar is looking interesting now with flights attempting to land at Manchester!

Fuming I forgot to look at flight radar last night. I remember the mn thread during the last severe storm.

Just spoken to DH back in Lancs. He said the garden table is where it should be but the chairs are strewn around the garden and he can't see his bird table although it's still too dark to see properly.

I've strongly suggested he doesn't travel to Anglesey today because I think the roads should be left for those who need to travel and the emergency services will have enough to do without potentially having to look after people who could have stayed at home.

I’m in the NW too. It’s scary, and our house is in quite a sheltered spot!

@ColinRobinson yep! We've been awake since 3am with my youngest screaming there are monsters outside after being woken by it all!

@Welshiefluff

Rude! I'm just joining in the conversation

Not really. You are asking a question that can easily be found online elsewhere.

There is a website called Google that is rather useful with that kind of thing.

That is extremely rude & unnecessary. Grow up @Welshiefluff

I can't believe how many places have had snow!!!

I bloody hate wind, it just feels so unnecessary. It's like the weather is just in a bad mood and wants to wind everyone up and cause havoc.

@Anordinarymum

Where I live in North Leeds we usually have nothing to report - ever.

Well....... my bins went over tonight and I can only say thank the Lord they were emptied this morning or there would have been rubbish everywhere.

I had to move them behind a gate and nearly got blown over.
My two bay trees which sit at either side of my front door were blown over and I have lost a fence panel at the back.

It is a bit scary because nothing like this has ever happened before and I am waiting for the next thing........

Same here in Harrogate, we usually escape the worst weather!

Plymouth here and it is howling. Got up earlier to make my coffee and can see a neighbour's fence panels strewn along the path.

Other side of pennies in West Yorkshire here and it’s awful been like this 11 hours. Howling, tiles rattling, trees bowed over. Horrible.

Still too dark to see the damage.

Devon and Cornwall getting it now.

NW here too. Was howling down the chimney last night and it's still having a good go.

I was always a bit sad that my parents got rid of the massive tree in the front garden, now I'm not. I'd have been worried about them last night.

@drunkensailorette

I bloody hate wind, it just feels so unnecessary. It's like the weather is just in a bad mood and wants to wind everyone up and cause havoc.

Me too, it's so bloody inconvenient. Everything is so much harder to do when everything is blowing and flapping around you:

I'm in Edinburgh, in the red zone. Was a quiet night! Have had worse storms/wind here but possible we are a bit protected being in a sort of valley. Still too dark to go and have a look for damage but I definitely didn't hear anything scary in the night. Possibly slept through it!

It appears that my roof survived. It hasn't come off at least.
Its still mental out there this morning, but I dont think it's as bad as 3am.
My sky dish and aerial are slightly bent over so I'll need to get them sorted before they give out and put a window through. I wanted them down anyway.

I hope people managed to get some sleep and had only minor to no damage. I must have conked out at around 4am

www.spenergynetworks.co.uk/pages/power_cuts.aspx

@ShinyMe have a loot at this website. Put your parents postcode in and it will tell you if there is a powercut.

N Wales here too, we can see quite a lot of our roof tiles smashed on the front garden but still too windy and not quite light enough yet to properly see the damage. Never known it so bad in my area, we literally heard a huge ridge tile rolling down the roof and past our bedroom window. Some of the photos here are horrendous.

We're getting quite a battering in Dorset. I decided not go walking in the woods first thing!

I've been thinking so much of everyone further north, especially east coast. We're mid Devon, not even in the Amber alert area, and it's absolutely terrifying here. I'm just about to go out and feed the animals, and I'm actually a bit scared to step outside the door.

Hampshire/Wiltshire/Dorset border here

Sounds pretty full on out there

I imagine there will be a lot of tree damage (New Forest)

@ListenLinda

North West here, I can hear it battering the house and howling down the chimney. We are under a yellow warning so god knows how the people in the red zone feel. It’s the worst i’ve heard it in a long time.

That's how I felt too. Also NW (coast).