Severe gales in SE overnight - please heed!

[OhYoubadbadKitten]

Just saw the met office forecast for wind along the SE coast in around 3am on their map. 78mph! That is certainly of damaging strength, both to trees and structurally.

Take down or at least remove nets from trampolines and weight them down! Sort out those dodgy fences and tuck your wheelie bins away!

met office warnings

I'm not going to be around this morning, please bump. Cos it could save some people a lot of hassle.

[pepperrabbit]

Well it's raining heavily here but not absolutely pouring. (NE Hampshire)
I'm puzzled by the different forecasts - BBC (MetOffice i assume) show winds at 25mph tonight, Netweather 50mph! That's quite a difference - or will be to my old oak tree

[OhYoubadbadKitten]

NE Hampshire, likely to see gusts of around 50-60 mph at somewhere between 2am and 4am I think. Maybe the bbc is showing mean winds rather than gusts?

[pepperrabbit]

Oh yes - that would make sense! I was having a dim moment
Thank goodness it mostly seems to be overnight instead of a weekday rush hour so more people should be home.
The news coverage seems to be all about the terrible floods and not very much on the dangerous winds following behind.

[OhYoubadbadKitten]

It does doesn't it, though I suppose the floods are already happening and hitting a wide area. But I really think that they should warn people about the winds. It's been a fair while since the SE has been threatened by such strong winds (unless my memory is broken) so there will be a lot of older unstable trees vulnerable to coming down.

[Glitterknickaz]

That sky looks absolutely leaden above me (Horsham, W Sussex)

[WhoKnowsWhereTheTimeGoes]

NE Hants here too , rain getting much heavier now, feels very cold and it got dark very early.

[ilovemydogandMrObama]

any news for South West?

[OhYoubadbadKitten]

Will just have a look for the latest...

[OhYoubadbadKitten]

Not quite so bad for the SW gales wise, gusting to around 50 mph or thereabouts. SE, seems to have settled around 70mph around the coast, 50-60mph inland. Timings remaining similar. So far the deepening of the low is matching the Met office surface analysis charts which means that at least up til now the met office have a pretty good handle on it.

[PrincessSymbian]

What about Lon-don? Are we in for it too?

[OhYoubadbadKitten]

Even in London you could get gusts of around 50mph. In London it tends to be the scaffolding around buildings that makes me slightly nervous after having had a fabulous view once from a pub window of scaffolding being blown down. Buildings do strange things to wind!

[OhYoubadbadKitten]

Bit of a bump for those who might need to know.

[OhYoubadbadKitten]

Ahhh, first report rumbaa :) thank you.

[ChippingInLovesAutumn]

Keeping it bumped :)

[OhYoubadbadKitten]

Thanks chipping :)

[OhYoubadbadKitten]

Oooooo, good idea! TJPJ. You've made me think that tomorrow might be a good day to ditch responsibilities and go fossil hunting. (Though the cliffs would be unstable.... And I do have a lot to do and I'm knackered..... maybe.....)

It's a long time before the proper winds come in, shows there's quite a big wind field. Inland in CSS England there's very little wind atm. Not sure it's even raining at this point.

[GloriaSmud]

The bright pink bit showing up on raintoday is providing a bit of a cloud burst for us atm! We're up to 7.2mm of rain in the last 24 hrs.

[OhYoubadbadKitten]

I bet it is Gloria! Impressive radar!

[Chanatan]

Our only access road is now flooded,impassable by car,ds has to be at work at 7 am tomorrow morning,so dh has borrowed a land rover off his db,hopefully they can get through in that otherwise he has a 4 mile walk.

[OhYoubadbadKitten]

wind warnings expanded across most of the south and now include east anglia]] with a met office comment that EA may be the worst affected area.
Will investigate why.....

[OhYoubadbadKitten]

Ok, understand now I think, looking at the NAE model I can see the squeeze in the isobars as it crosses ea with the low centre leaving across Lincolnshire.

[VivaLeBeaver]

So will lincs be the worst area?

[OhYoubadbadKitten]

No, I don't think so, maybe norfolk/Suffolk. Bit hard to tell looking at that scale! Wouldn't discount problems along the south coast still.