Weather warnings for gales

[OhYouBadBadKitten]

met office warnings primarily for the SW and much of
Wales on Thursday. Could gust to 60mph in places.

Going to be a bugger in the garden. Stake those broad beans!

[digerd]

S.Herts
Sunny again atm. Min temp last night +7.8. Grass growing too fast.
E-mail I sent to this pond-cleaning firm returned as name unknown

[digerd]

Oh, poor you .

Not really checked everything at the back yet, just checked to see if life had come back into my pond pump - but no. So been searching for someone to clean out the sludged up pond and put in a new pump. < and rip me off with their prices> sigh.

[OhYouBadBadKitten]

My rhubarb is all flat and broken :(

[digerd]

Just popped my head out the front door and no damage there. It rained too in the night .
The ornamental flowering fruit trees looked gorgeous yesterday - council owned at side of pavement, but the wind was blowing the blossom off. . They were a month late this year.

[OhYouBadBadKitten]

well, digerd, in comparison, but that was a rather unusual occurrence and this storm is pretty unusual for this time of year, so I wouldnt really compare the two!
Latest high reading at mumbles is 71mph.

[SpottyTeacakes]

Thanks 46 nearest to here

[PipkinsPal]

There is a Coastguard station at Mumbles and they record wind speeds/gusts. Info found on Met office website.

[SpottyTeacakes]

How do you check current gusts?

[PipkinsPal]

Sketty too

[digerd]

Just checked the wind speed of the 1987 SE storm and the highest was 134 mph during the night. So, me thinks 65 mph is a doddle?

[mummylin2495]

Very windy here in dorset

[AmandinePoulain]

You can't be too far from me then! I'm in Sketty, where abouts are you?

[AmandinePoulain]

I was coming on to say the same pipkins, it's awful out there! I can't believe the change from Monday and Tuesday . I thought I was going to take off on the school run and I couldn't close the car door earlier on this morning .

[PipkinsPal]

However wind gusts at Mumbles Head, Swansea, less than 3 miles away from me, 66mph

[PipkinsPal]

Blowing a gale in S Wales. My little plastic greenhouse which has been tethered by bungees attached to bolts drilled into a wall all winter has been dancing freely in my garden. Wind speeds here at the moment 49mph which is faster than my car can go

[SpottyTeacakes]

It's ok I survived to tell the take

Hmm there goes my wheelie bin

[digerd]

This afternoon at 3pm was definitely windier with the gusts more forceful.

Will it get worse in the night?

[digerd]

Spotty How awful.

[lubeybooby]

V windy here in sw leicestershire

[digerd]

S.Herts
Just been out for little dog's walk and it is very breezy and the wind is COLD. More clouds arrived too

[BlackeyedSusan]

the weather is so deceptive. it is beautifully sunny and calm outside here in the w. mids

[SpottyTeacakes]

Yes it was digerd, I had a febrile convulsion that night and the ambulance broke down after going through a big puddle

[digerd]

S.Herts
Winds not arrived here yet and is all sunny this morning atm.
Think it was 1987 when the SE had terrible storm winds that uprooted lots of large trees? And Kew gardens lost quite a few

[SpottyTeacakes]

Light breeze and sunshine in West Sussex. Think I may have heard a few gusts.....

[TwllBach]

Gosh it's really windy here in north Wales! I can practically hear my long stem daffodils screaming in terror