Storm Doris. - Amber warnings central UK

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uh oh

No idea where this sprung up from, I've been a bit neglectful. Warnings of a short period of 70-80mph winds. Very nasty. Met office warning of widespread disruption, unsurprising if winds are to be that strong.

Can people keep this one bumped please, its going to catch a lot of people out I think.

Overview of West Mids at the moment is showing wind gusts of about 34mph at the moment. Due to get up to 69!

It's quite windy here in the northwest, and raining quite hard.
Thank goodness I've only got to nip round the corner, and haven't got to go out any further than that

Overview of West Mids at the moment is showing wind gusts of about 34mph at the moment. Due to get up to 69!

Gosh if this is only 34mph I dread to think what 69mph is going to be like!

Alabaster, I tipped my trampoline over yesterday and folded the patio furniture down and put it on top of it to weigh it down. Ours could cause a lot of damage if the wind caught it

I've folded Patio furniture down but can't do anything about slides etc- just stacked them all as closely as possible to each other near the house... will that do?! Just taken the bins into the garage

So is it better on its side? I'm in staffs and we're in an exposed area. No kidding here - their gate is already one hinge off now so I've just gone and wedged it flat open against the wall with bricks. Bin day and bins are all over the rubbish everywhere is crazy. I assumed if I tipped it over I'd be making more of a wall for the wind to catch? I can put it on it's side against the house but I'm worried about it then going through a window!

It's the sort with nets and it's off the floor. It's bobbing about at the moment and their house has several single glazed Victorian windows at the same level. We do have Bungy cords for camping but I don't know what to attach the bloody things to and fearful I'm just turning it into a giant catapult

Dh just been for a run on the beach in Pembrokeshire. Lovely bright day. He's said it's fine for us to pop down there if we hold hands but we'll probably only last 20 minutes.

Wind is starting to pick up in North Manchester, luckily the DS's are off for half term so we don't have to leave the house, stay safe everyone.

Do you have tent pegs alabaster? Ours also has side nets but its tied down and secured with about 40 tent pegs.

No snow a fuckton of rain though. Am being baited by friends sending me pictures if their snow.

Yes I've got my own tent pegs. I'll try that!

Pretty bad here in Dublin.

shit load of snow here in Fife/Perthshire. DH tried to take DS to school but had to turn back.

Picking up here in Essex.

Was totally calm an hour or so ago

Quite calm here in Bournemouth. It's a little bit windy but nothing to worry about at the moment. We even have bursts of sunshine, have I slept through it or hasn't it arrived here yet ?

Fantastic website showing wind patterns, it's brilliant how you can scroll in and see all the details earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/overlay=mean_sea_level_pressure/orthographic=-4.68,52.08,3000

Oops not sure if it's worked, can anyone see it?

back garden here in Scotland

What is the little green dot for?

Worked for me! Thanks leesmum, now I can see what the actual wind speed is here - quite far below the 94mph recorded at Capel Curig which is not far from here!

dementedma that's a lot of snow!

I've walked the dog, avoiding the woods where I usually walk him. It was difficult to walk forwards at some points and it's not at it's worst yet. Just heard a travel alert on local radio that an A road nearby is closed due to a fallen tree, so I'm hoping no one was hit by it as it's a busy town centre road.

Glad it's worked OhtoblazeswithElvira it's fascinating isn't it? dementedma am a bit jealous of your snow

holly you move the green dot to your location by clicking on the screen.