BBC Weather - Hurricane force winds across UK

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This came as a bit of a surprise this morning! I've been outside and it's definitely a bit drizzly but no wind to speak of. I think someone at BBCW has pressed the wrong button 😆

5050 mph here in the south east

WeatherPro app is giving the same crazy forecasts. It gets its data from Meteo Group too. Gusting 15685mph today!

15451 mph in the NE !!!

13863mph here, should get the washing dried pretty quickly.

I see the wind's coming from the north east.
Someone better warn Ireland that they should be expecting the UK's entire stocks of garden trampolines to be landing on them later today.

I've just driven home listening to R4 and he said the weather forecast thing isn't working and he can assure us he's standing in Oxford and the winds aren't 350mph

Unexpected bedding wash day! Bonus!

Meanwhile in Tampa, according to the BBC

Hope not - I'm driving there tomorrow!

Already wondering if I'll find my way - I won't have the headspace to keep trying to find where it's actually gone 😂

On the contrary, I've got 2 loads to put out.

This is the most entertaining the BBC has been for a while 😁

Here in Ireland we also apparently have a 🌀

Yes and I’ve just heard weather forecasts on Tge Today programme and not a mention?

664mph in the SW. Best put my raincoat on for walking the dog this morning!

It’s a typo somewhere in the system. Hurricane or not, air can’t move at the speed of 15000 miles per hour in the atmosphere. For reference, that’s about 12 times the speed of sound, and the highest wind speed ever recorded is 253 miles per hour.

Sorry, this was a humorless reply to someone upthread who thought “they were just covering their backs”.

Someone needs to contact Jeremy Vine and tell the eejit not to go out on his penny farthing bike this morning. It might be wobbly in the 2490 mph winds.

Wondering if a disgruntled beeb employee had a mess around before leaving....

Yes that's why it's funny. I don't think anyone thinks temperatures of 400 degrees are real either.

I think it'll be a cracking "drying day" here. Time to get the sheets out.

This is Britain though and we're plucky, even in the face of seemingly never-seen-before-and-physically-impossible winds 😃

We have the same in Scotland and I've noticed the French town where my parents live have the same too. I assume it's a glitch as I'm sure we would have noticed if we had hurricane winds outside. As it is we have a gentle breeze that will do nicely as I have washing outside.

17000 in Edinburgh!

Mid Wales, same here too! 15445mph winds!! 😂

No change there then 😁

Only 5344mph and 10°c here in Northants 😔