Storm Franklin is driving me nuts !

[Millicent2022]

So noisy can’t sleep !

Much louder than Eunice ! Anyone else ??

Worse where I am too. I’m glad it’s half term here so I don’t need to do the school run!

@Tulipvase

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.

You're also missing the point being made. Quite spectacularly, if you've somehow decided we're saying Eunice didn't happen!

The point is the warnings being given for the storms which seem at odds with the severity of the storms where we are.

@Pyewhacket

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

Typically the Internet went out just as I was typing.

I think most of us had already assumed it wasn't as bad in London as its not been mentioned on the news once this morning.

If London had the weather we have here or that other posters are describing it would be the leading news story on all news outlets.

If London had the weather we have here or that other posters are describing it would be the leading news story on all news outlets.

Agreed. It’s horrendous where I am. Sheer good luck I had managed to arrange working from home today. Very few warnings, and even now the news is buried on the local pages on the bbc news site.

We haven’t had power since Friday. We lost our shed and lots of tiles. I am so over the storms. I don’t care what it’s name is, it needs to stop being so dramatic.

I'm baffled that NI was put on Amber but NW England was not.

South east(ish) here - strong gusts but dry.

Same! We only have a yellow warning for wind but it's windier than when we had an amber warning on Friday

@Tulipvase

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.

Not sure where anyone is saying that Eunice didn’t happen.

What we ARE saying if that our areas were in an Amber alert and yet today is worse but only a yellow.

West Yorkshire here and it's kept me awake too. I can't remember hearing wind that loud in a very long time!

Dudley & Eunice were Ylenia & Zeynep for us.

We're on to Antonia now!

Yorkshire dweller here.

Yesterday and all through last night was way, way worse than ' Eunice' .
Really nigh on impossible to leave the house yesterday. We have had flooding in our village and major travel disruption, - nothing like that on Friday.

It's strange how forecasts work; every time we get an advanced warning, nothing really terrible happens here , but then with no warning we can have a hurricane, monsoon or blizzard .

@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.

I take this bottom paragraph back. Took the dog out, and a block of flats nearby actually has had its roof ripped off in the night. There are several trees down. I could barely walk when a gust came.

Midlands - so much worse than Eunice! Nothing really happened in my area during Eunice but so many trees came down last night and this morning, half the roads out my village are impassable.

I’m in West Yorkshire and the wind is wild, there some local flooding too. I’m very glad we don’t have to go out today.

We are on a yellow warning today and it’s much worse than the amber on Friday was.

The buses have said they aren’t doing the school runs (understandable they are double deckers and we have 60 plus mph gusts) so Ds school have shut for the day - I think the buses situation just made the decision even easier for the head

Why wouldn’t they have categorised this storm as amber if they felt it was necessary. Possibly because they got it wrong, weather is not an exact science. Or possibly because it wasn’t as bad. Or it could be because the North doesn’t matter. (I’m aware other places have been affected).

I know what I think.

Ive just read the local news for updates - the number of disruptions are huge in the north - and seen its the 5th story below the death of Jamal Edwards with no update for 3 hours on the bbc news website.

A couple of days ago it was wall to wall Eunice.

There are a huge number of flood warnings in place including two danger to life warnings in Manchester. There are two major motorway closures - the M60 and the M6, as well as much of the railway network down. Given where they are, if you want to travel in many places in the NW today you are really going to struggle.

Its a rarity to be as bad as this.

Obviously these things are not as interesting to editors at the BBC news desk in London. And they don't think their readers need to know.

Rural north Essex, the rain flooded some of the houses at the top of our road last night (coming off the fields), currently blowing a gale, certainly louder than Eunice.

There are numerous trees down around here so many local roads are also impassable. Thats if you can get around the local roads which are impassable due to flooding.

Lincolnshire - I have kept my DD off school today as I did not want her travelling to her Special School on the minibus, it seems so much worse than last week.

Cornwall.
Eunice wasn't as bad as it went through within 2 or 3 hours, Franklin, though probably lower wind speeds (though i'm not sure about that) has been going for many hours, we've had trees down across main roads, which didn't happen with Eunice.

Quite like going to sleep with hi winds and driving rain.

@stopringingme

Lincolnshire - I have kept my DD off school today as I did not want her travelling to her Special School on the minibus, it seems so much worse than last week.

I'm really surprised so many schools are open, there's a lot of flooding and disruption to roads around here. Not to mention the dangerous driving conditions, yet all the schools seem to be open.

There was a meme going around last week about the north v south and eunice.

On it there was a northerner going 'meh just a bit of rain, im off to work' (i paraphrase) and a southerner doing a good Lance Corporal Jones 'Dont Panic' routine.

I think, it has been well demonstrated.

145mph wind speed of the coast of Northern Ireland.

South Derbyshire, much worse than Friday. High wind and driving rain since 5pm yesterday. Relentless. Road closures and flood warnings.