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Storm Eunice

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OhYouBadBadKitten · 14/02/2022 11:57

This thread covers the expected severe weather on Friday - named Storm Eunice by the met office. At the moment there is great uncertainty, so the met office have put out a very wide yellow weather warning. It looks likely that some regions within the warning area will see gusts of 60-70mph inland, with a small chances of inland gusts above 80mph. The storm also carries the potential for some blizzards, but again there is currently considerable uncertainty.

www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/warnings-and-advice/uk-warnings#?date=2022-02-18

A separate thread exists for Storm Dudley which is expected Wednesday/Thursday.
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/weather/4481213-Storm-Dudley

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Lightning020 · 17/02/2022 15:28

I hope it isnt as bad as the hurricane in 1987. I remember all the havoc.

ajandjjmum · 17/02/2022 15:31

@Lightning020

I hope it isnt as bad as the hurricane in 1987. I remember all the havoc.
'Hurricane, what hurricane?' Michael Fish will never be forgotten for that!
EmpressSuiko · 17/02/2022 15:31

We are in Devon, school hasn’t announced a closure yet but I don’t drive and the walk is dangerous, my children get a bus so I’m considering keeping them home as I won’t be able to collect them if the weather gets extremely bad tomorrow.

notimagain · 17/02/2022 15:32

@rooinspace

What will this mean for flights? We’ve got a morning flight from London
(Popping across from the Flightradar thread).

On last experience and looking at the forecasts I would not be surprised if there are a few cancellations out of Heathrow, most especially the short haul flights of the big airport users.

poshme · 17/02/2022 15:32

@nordica there's advice on the met office website. My insurance company have also sent me an email- so you could try looking at their websites too...

AppleButter · 17/02/2022 15:33

Any tips for placement of (heavy, vintage, heavy-wheeled) wheelbarrows outdoors? On their front, or just normal position perhaps best for lowest uplift by gales? Any experience appreciated.

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OhYouBadBadKitten · 17/02/2022 15:35

[quote HappySonHappyMum]@OhYouBadBadKitten Thanks for the thread - are you a real life meteorologist or an enthusiastic amateur? Can I ask the websites you use to look at the models? I find all this weather stuff really interesting and would love to learn more.[/quote]
I'm an amateur :) if this were my paid job, I wouldnt have time to breathe at the moment. Grin As it is, I've shoved some work aside today to try and fit this in.
I use www.theweatheroutlook.com/twodata/model-inventory.aspx and wxcharts.com/

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fairylightsandwaxmelts · 17/02/2022 15:36

@Trytobetoo

Is anyone in Lancashire? Is it incredibly bad there?
I'm in Cumbria!

It's calm now and sunny but the forecast for tomorrow is heavy rain and 50mph winds. We're on a Yellow warning now but we were on Amber yesterday and it's forecast worse tomorrow than it was then, lol

HemanOrSheRa · 17/02/2022 15:38

Bristol City Council have declared storm eunice a major incident and advised all schools to close. I work for BCC in a front line critical service and DP is a bus driver. I'm waiting for him to let me know what his employer has decided regarding the buses going out tomorrow morning.

CraftyGin · 17/02/2022 15:40

DD is a student in Swansea.

I have told her not to go anywhere near the sea (very tempting to see the majesty of it). I've also told her to take her patio furniture and recycling bins in. Classes have been cancelled tomorrow.

BerylStrip · 17/02/2022 15:40

@FuzzyPuffling

We've had army planes and helicopters flying low overhead this after noon. Unusual activity. Think it's connected?
I must be near to you - smack bang in the middle of the red zone and about 2 miles from one of the names 'top 10 worst places'.

We've noticed the helicopters too, and the police have been going around calling on houses. It seems a bit random - I can't believe they're all ne'er-do-wells - so perhaps they're checking on certain vulnerable people.

I've just moved everything 'loose' from the garden into the garage. Stocked up on milk and bread and will be sure to fill containers with drinking water before bed this evening.

I'm most worried about losing power to be honest - we do have gas so it's not a total disaster - but we are quite high up so no danger of floods (but extra windy to make up for it I suppose).

Carpediem15 · 17/02/2022 15:41

@AnotherCrazyBirdLady

Does anyone know if buses are running in North Wales tomorrow, particularly in the Conwy valley? DS needs to get to work, they haven't mentioned him staying home as of yet.
Nothing on local news or newspapers on line about buses only no trains and schools shut.
Tilltheend99 · 17/02/2022 15:44

I’m on south coast and between last night and today the beeb changed their predicted wind speeds from 50mph to 70mph. I mentioned this to in-laws but they didn't seem phased.

HoldOnToYourHat · 17/02/2022 15:46

Amber warning at the moment here in our rural area, with winds forecast up to 74mph. Everything seems to be going on as normal tomorrow, including schools open and buses running.

AnotherCrazyBirdLady · 17/02/2022 15:46

@Carpediem15 Thank you!

FuzzyPuffling · 17/02/2022 15:48

BerylStrip
We've got gas too - and thank goodness I went with a gas hob in my new kitchen: I so nearly got an induction hob! DH is currently making a big batch of Bolognese sauce which can be reheated in a saucepan.

We're also up a hill (150M up) so, like you, the only flooding will be from ground water but since we're in a direct line to the sea it will be very blowy. The waves are predicted to be 30' - that's big! It'll take some cliff away, no doubt.

Good luck and I hope you survive damage free.

FourTeaFallOut · 17/02/2022 15:49

@HoldOnToYourHat

Amber warning at the moment here in our rural area, with winds forecast up to 74mph. Everything seems to be going on as normal tomorrow, including schools open and buses running.
Things can't carry on at normal with 75mph winds. That is batten down the hatches wind, surely?
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BerylStrip · 17/02/2022 15:52

@FuzzyPuffling

BerylStrip We've got gas too - and thank goodness I went with a gas hob in my new kitchen: I so nearly got an induction hob! DH is currently making a big batch of Bolognese sauce which can be reheated in a saucepan.

We're also up a hill (150M up) so, like you, the only flooding will be from ground water but since we're in a direct line to the sea it will be very blowy. The waves are predicted to be 30' - that's big! It'll take some cliff away, no doubt.

Good luck and I hope you survive damage free.

And you - if you see someone flying overhead with a female staffie on a lead, she was desperate for a pee and we were blown asunder...

:)

HarreePotter · 17/02/2022 15:55

I've just moved our bins to a more sheltered area of the garden and my neighbour has whinged that now his fence doesn't have them to hold it up..

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OhYouBadBadKitten · 17/02/2022 15:57

If people are worried about dodgy fence panels and can easily slide them out, I'd do that rather than lose them. Fence panels will be like gold dust by Saturday.

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FuzzyPuffling · 17/02/2022 15:57

@Handsoffreturns

The flight activity is nothing to do with the storm fuzzy.
Do you know more? Is it the Ukraine situation? They were definitely flying very low and it was supply planes not the jets.
HoldOnToYourHat · 17/02/2022 15:58

You'd think so, wouldn't you, @FourTeaFallOut ? Not according to our school. Most of the kids travel into the town to school from outlying villages and farms by bus - some double-deckers - on winding, tree-lined country lanes. England, BTW.

frowner · 17/02/2022 15:59

Warwickshire here, our primary school has forest school in the morning which the teacher said is going ahead, hmm…

WreckTangled · 17/02/2022 16:00

I'm south east and don't know other areas well but someone I know is hoping to travel by road from Bolton to Trowbridge leaving mid morning tomorrow, via coach. I have said it'll probably be delayed but not sure what more I can tell them. They're panicking but the coach company are being non committal, I guess because they don't know either!