Storm Gerrit

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Lots and lots of rain for some tomorrow. Again! Wind, snow Storm Gerrit has a bit of it all.
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/warnings-and-advice/uk-warnings#?date=2023-12-27

Please pay attention to the Met Office warnings.

Hope that's not heading our way in West Lancs, @PiggieWig! If it's following wind direction it won't be!

The wind seems to be dropping a bit though...calm before the storm?

I can't sleep. I just nodded off and dreamt a plane was flying over and bombing us- it must have been the noise of the wind.

Further north than most of you. Just got a gate-rattling wind

Also woken up by wind and rain battering the windows. Having a hot drink and hoping to nod back off...

Biking to work in half an hour. 46mph gusts apparently.
Just opened the back door to find dhs resto mini on a dolly has travelled the garden and wedged itself by the back door. Let's cross fingers I can manhandle my bike round the furniture and out the front door!

@Rowgtfc72 stay safe! We're also East Coast (Suffolk) and the wind has completely dropped here so hopefully it will do the same where you are.

Morning all. Still blowing here in Cornwall, but nowhere near as bad as yesterday and last night, but still strong enough.

Did sleep in the end for a few hours.

Still blowing here too, but a mere 45-ish gusts, rather than a constant 55-60mph.

I managed to get back to sleep about 3.30 as the speed was dropping at that point, so was quieter.

I have missed it here (Newcastle), but it looks like I will be driving back into the eye of the storm today.

Waking up to being battered by heavy rain. I suspect a lot of us didn't sleep well last night!

Heavy rain showers here and Force 6 gusting 7. Apparently getting stronger mid morning.

Oh goodness just been out to the garden and found one of our fence panels ripped out! Sturdy panels in concrete posts. Sigh.

So about 2300-2330 last night I was woken by what sounded like the roof coming off and the bedroom window coming in. It sounded like rain was hammering the windows and a plane landing on the house. DD is home from university and came running into us. She usually loves a storm but she was really frightened.

It lasted a couple of minutes then was calm.

I've woken this morning to reports of a tornado in Stalybridge, which is a few miles north east of me at around the same time so I'm assuming it was the squall lone or front that created that moving through.

December 2023 has been our month for extreme weather in the Manky household!

Bloody hell!!!

https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/storm-gerrit-live-hundreds-without-28356942?utm_source=north_wales_live_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=North+Wales+Live+-+Daily+Newsletter_newsletter&utm_content=&utm_term=&ruid=1d42b50b-d7d2-460d-8a34-b718d71e327f

We did get a battering Anglesey west coast took the brunt of it
We've the mountain range to the west of us so are somewhat in it's shadow. Pwllheli, abersoch, Caernarfon, Trevor being in it's furious path .

The flooding iand landslips is my main worry I never want to see that again, happened twice in the nineties. We've some flooding but it's in fields for now.

It's still blowing hard but easing off. Saturday is a day I'm not looking forward to.

Interesting tornado path

I drove through an electrical storm yesterday evening. It was about 7.45, and the sky was flashing. I have never seen anything like this in December before. I'm summer after a hot spell is more usual.

Yikes!