Met office weather warnings for heavy rain, severe gales and snow

[OhYouMerryLittleKitten]

Going to be an eventful few days. Have been discussing it in te Christmas weather thread but I think they need highlighting. met office warnings

I managed to get about 4 hours of fretful sleep last night. It's calmed down a bit now but I think it's going to get quite severe again around midday.

I hope everybody is safe. xx

kitten, are we looking at wind Mon / Tue as well?

I have never seen such a depressing forecast since I started this malarkey. Even 15 days out the pattern is the same with heavy rain after heavy rain day after day. Not all day every day but it just lines itself up to give little respitr. Bit of an interlude tomorrow thank goodness

tree has come down in OH's back garden, big oak tree as well he's still without power, no idea when he'll be reconnected.

he's near porthmadog in north wales. I'm in badmouth north wales, power holding up but I'm scared to open the curtains...

kitten

Yes d&p but not on the same scale at present. Windy/gales rather than severe gales.

Hang in there moomin.

SE
Just back from dog walk. Very blustery but mild and not raining atm though very dismal and grey.

Damage doesn't seem too bad for us but we haven't been able to examine the roof yet, think we may have lost a couple of roof tiles, but the trees over the road from us look dangerously close to falling, and we're a bit scared to cross the road so we can check

Listen to your spidey instincts!

My spidey senses are saying stay indoors where it's vaguely warm

Spidey sense - that's the phrase!!! It first came out as 'Spidey insects' which I knew didnt make any sense!!

Oh blooming buggery hell - I've had to do running repairs on my plastic greenhouse. Massive great hailstorm did the damage as well as the pebbledash that was knocked off by the hail stones. And now bright sunshine ... I can't keep up with it at the moment.

Hail stones knocked off the pebbledash? Was this today? How big was the hail?

OH has no idea when he'll get power back

Massive oak tree took out the water main and the electricity cables when it fell. They're in contact with the power company but haven't heard anything for the last few hours.

We're en route north (a1m) it's madness!

for moomin OH.

They weren't that big, but very hard and what with the wind, were coming almost horizonal against the back of the house (the back looks out over a railway line so quite exposed. Probably took bits off that were loose anyway. But there's a nice little scattering around the back door and in my little plastic greenhouse. About 11.30/middayish.

Have decided to travel back tomorrow morning instead, hopefully all will have calmed down again then.

Then I've got a 200 mile drive north on Monday so hoping the weather forecast improves...

SE
As it was sunny at 2.30pm I took little dog into the open fields and was shocked to see so much tree damage done.

Very windy here, NW last night and today. It seems to be calming now, but it did this before and then picked up again.

It has been wild on the IOM all last night & today, I've never heard or felt wind like it. FIL is staying with us for an extra 2 days as all flights up to now cancelled or diverted & all ferries cancelled. Quieter now though

Been watching BBC breakfast and there is some more extreme gales for Monday.
And heavy rain.
Oh FFS!

Really, coffee? Oh I wish I could decide whether to cancel our trip to Yorkshire.........! < ditherer emoticon>

I do hope I'm wrong.
My only qualification is watching BBC news..

S.Herts.
A sunny and quiet interlude here this morning. Not a cloud in the sky atm and no wind.

My weather forecast says the rain on Monday will be confined to the SE by dusk.