Storm Franklin is driving me nuts !

[Millicent2022]

So noisy can’t sleep !

Much louder than Eunice ! Anyone else ??

@SovietSpy

Genuinely would like to know why this wasn’t at least an amber weather warning for the north west. Am in Manchester and the wind is so strong and destructive. There are risk to life flood warnings from last night. M60 shut due to overturned lorry, problems on the m6, multiple train services cancelled. Schools were closed for Eunice in SW but we are making people travel here? My teacher neighbour has already gone to work…. Ridiculous we are making people travel in this weather due to inadequate weather warnings

I would also like to know this. I just don't understand why it's not a more serious risk. It doesn't make sense to me that people are travelling in these conditions.

Been very windy for 12 hours or more now in NW. noisy all night.

User name was from a storm a while ago!

N Wales here and it's been awful since yesterday, but worse through the night and now. My sleep tracker swears I had 6 hours sleep. But I was up at 1, 2 3 and 4. Don't think I saw 5 or 6, so willing to accept about 4 hours sleep. Luckily, we're off for half term.

But all the schools in n Wales closed for less than this on Friday.

@SovietSpy I totally agree.

The wind is wild out there and yet we're all on yellow warnings.

My little town has two school closures, several blocked roads and numerous power cuts. Yet we were on Amber last week and it was nothing compared to this

SW here.. Its so much worse.
Been awake most of the night.
Terrified dogs on the bed shivering, garden looks devastated.
Eunice we had a few gusts for about an hr, but this has been raging since yesterday evening

Agree 1000% with those saying it's worse here than it was for the other named storms earlier in the week. I'm super surprised we're only on a yellow warning.

It's bin day here and I've already seen 3 neighbours running after their recycling. Plus it seems to be getting even windier too which doesn't seem possible.

@MrsNoelFielding

Watching GMB and there’s no mention of it! Eunice was top topic on Friday!

Must mean London isn’t hugely impacted!

South Yorkshire and it’s had me awake most of the night, eldest ds is just about to leave for school and dp for work. It’s youngest ds’s last day off after half term and my last day of annual leave before I’m back to 6am starts so I wanted a lovely lie in, I might try and go back to sleep but there is an air vent in our bathroom just outside the bedroom door that is making a terrible sound with this wind

@KookaburraSits

Also Merseyside. Doors keep blowing open and house shaking, which didn't happen with Eunice. It's been doing this all night. Cynical part of me is wondering if the South East hasn't been hit that badly so... But also willing to think that it was the huge gusts that made Eunice so bad for some areas, whereas Franklin is just consistently very windy but not quite "rip rooves off" windy.

It's only really newsworthy when it's within the m25.

V little on BBC news site as well, nothing to do with the fact it's pretty much skirted around London......

Much noisier here but less powerful. 3 storms in a row is concerning isn't it?

No, I'm in South East London and very scared about walking the children to school. At times the wind seems stronger to me than on Friday, and I just don't get how we're only on a yellow warning. It's madness, why aren't they being more open about the risks?

Same! All sorts of battening down hatched notices here for Eunice which we mainly slept through - hardly slept a wink last night!

I can't believe kids are expected to travel to school in this

We are on half term this week - wonder why it’s different nationwide

DC on half term this week too but I’ve still got to travel 20 miles to work. Really not looking forward to it, lots of country lanes to navigate, lots of trees possibly became unstable after Eunice so fingers crossed there’s nothing too bad on the road!

Wish me luck!

Yep, half term in Cornwall and loads of places are closed because of the weather! Our plans have been put on hold for now - painting DDs room instead.
Our shed roof and a door have come off on Friday and we've been trying to weight it all down with rocks, slabs etc!

Also in Merseyside having been kept up all night. Bin day and they’re everywhere, at least it was recycling. Car alarms went off down the road all night. This is so much worse than Eunice. I’m quite annoyed really, we had absolutely no warning unlike Eunice where I worried for a day and nothing happened. I would much rather they warned me more. Thankfully I knew it was coming and we didn’t put the bin out because I was getting my third migraine in five days last night. I don’t get them for anything other than weather these days. Worst superpower ever 😂

@Millicent2022

We are on half term this week - wonder why it’s different nationwide

It has varied across the Uk for a number of years now

Eunice was during the day for most……and was never going to affect the whole country. Of course this storm may seem worse in different parts of the county - doesn’t mean Eunice didn’t happen? A quick look at wind speeds across the country in the last 24 hours would suggest that for the majority, the winds were nothing like Eunice. I think at night, winds often sound worse.

South Wales. It’s horrendous here and yes worse than the other two storms.

South West London/Surrey and nowhere near as bad as Eunice. Not even close.

@Pyewhacket

South West London/Surrey and nowhere near as bad as Eunice. Not even close.

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@CrimePodcast

NW here. Cannot believe how bad it is. Whole house is awake due to it. Lying here worrying about the roof tiles and chimney stacks. Checked Ventusky and it says it will be much worse at 7/8am. Honestly worried about the half hour drive to work/school.

I now have a new toy to play with!

@Nesbo

Eunice was funnelled along the channel and recorded its highest wind speeds along the South Coast (with the highest being 122mph at the Needles). If you live 2-300 miles North of there (like some of the posters on this thread) it doesn’t seem surprising that it didn’t effect you as badly as a storm which has lower wind speeds but passed much closer.

You're missing the point. The point is that we were on an amber warning for Eunice, which wasn't as bad as Franklin, for which we've had a yellow warning.