Author Topic: The wind... (Read 32982 times)

ian · « **Reply #375 on:** 09 March, 2022, 07:59:58 pm »

I did glance absently up at the back of the house yesterday and noticed a length of soffity stuff flapping around. Le sigh, after bloody getting the front fixed last week too. It's probably been like that since the same storm, I don't look up very often.

Mrs Pingu · « **Reply #376 on:** 09 March, 2022, 08:21:30 pm »

@jurek, yes that was the 2 panels I was referring to. They do look nice & sturdy though.

I am bored of wind now.

Andrew Br · « **Reply #377 on:** 09 March, 2022, 10:33:55 pm »

If I were you Jurek, I'd move the cans from direct sunlight and put them somewhere in the shade. Keep them in the shed though.
Can't be too careful.

Jaded · « **Reply #378 on:** 09 March, 2022, 11:35:40 pm »

Quote from: Jurek on 09 March, 2022, 07:37:52 pm

The cans in the shed contain a butane/propane mix.

Oh

I assumed Londonish. So Nitrous Oxide

Jaded · « **Reply #379 on:** 09 March, 2022, 11:36:52 pm »

Quote from: andrewc on 09 March, 2022, 02:24:25 pm

It's not a named storm, but it's a tad breezy in Liverpool at the moment. Doors rattling & there is something creaking.

I think you got away lightly.

Our recycling bin fell over.

Jurek · « **Reply #380 on:** 10 March, 2022, 05:49:05 am »

Quote from: Andrew Br on 09 March, 2022, 10:33:55 pm

If I were you Jurek, I'd move the cans from direct sunlight and put them somewhere in the shade. Keep them in the shed though.
Can't be too careful.

That shed window is north-facing (you can see my weather station sensor under the shed eave, in the top rh corner of the first pic) so it's in the shade pretty much always.
ETA - if your house is on fire, and the fire brigade catch wind of the fact that you are storing gas cylinders in there they, understandably, won't enter the house to put out the fire.

andyoxon · « **Reply #381 on:** 02 January, 2024, 03:31:43 pm »

Hitting around 45-50mph here in Oxon. Had a power cut, including mobile phone reception (thoughts momentarily turned to analogue phone). 3 metre long polytunnel cover came off.

hubner · « **Reply #382 on:** 02 January, 2024, 03:44:19 pm »

It's quite noisy out there, the door is juddering.

quixoticgeek · « **Reply #383 on:** 02 January, 2024, 04:32:30 pm »

We have a yellow alert here. Am expecting things to get bouncy this evening.

J

Jurek · « **Reply #384 on:** 02 January, 2024, 05:08:57 pm »

Ventusky is currently showing gusts around here at ~56mph.
I've just been outside to put the bins out, and can confirm that the likes of bins have become err.... animated.
I'm not bothering with recovery until such time as the winds have subsided.

SteveC · « **Reply #385 on:** 02 January, 2024, 05:43:13 pm »

I had an appointment in town this lunchtime. Walking down towards the centre of Yeovil I heard a crash.
One of the curved windows on the top floor of this building https://www.google.com/maps/@50.9415043,-2.6338308,3a,75y,47.43h,128.29t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1skrrbeF9D_2lkRQTZfUy0Fw!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DkrrbeF9D_2lkRQTZfUy0Fw%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D266.75082%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656?entry=ttu had blown out. Fortunately there was no-one walking anywhere too close. Could have been very nasty.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #386 on:** 02 January, 2024, 06:42:56 pm »

Seems to have dropped in E17 or at least changed direction, coz the triffids are no longer banging on the Great Hall window.

Ian H · « **Reply #387 on:** 02 January, 2024, 06:53:33 pm »

Reports here of trees blocking most of the roads and railways. Bickleigh castle has lost a tower. There was a suspected tornado a little south of here.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #388 on:** 02 January, 2024, 07:29:54 pm »

Quote from: Ian H on 02 January, 2024, 06:53:33 pm

Bickleigh castle has lost a tower.

Bloody cowboy builders!

Joke shamelessly stolen from Angry People In Local Newspapers

HTFB · « **Reply #389 on:** 02 January, 2024, 09:23:16 pm »

Our next-door neighbour has lost the top off about five metres of garden wall, bringing down all our bushes. The pile-of-bricks effect is not wholly unlike that photo of Bickleigh Castle.

Quite glad still to be on leave and not commuting today.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #390 on:** 02 January, 2024, 09:42:47 pm »

Calm here now. Earlier, when I looked at the Met Office app, they seemed to be giving an elusive amber alert. At any rate, it looked a darker shade than the normal yellow, but maybe they've just altered their palette.

quixoticgeek · « **Reply #391 on:** 02 January, 2024, 10:38:19 pm »

The wind is making the monitor wobble. It's on one of those arm things hanging off a set of shelves. But the whole building is wobbling.

J

matthew · « **Reply #392 on:** 02 January, 2024, 10:46:18 pm »

Well there goes another fence post. The last two that I hadn't already changed have now failed. Mind you it's circa 15 years since the builders installed them and they have done well for only having 300mm below ground rather than the recommended 500mm.

I'm not sure I am up to changing them though s it might be time to GAMI.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #393 on:** 02 January, 2024, 11:18:02 pm »

My device recorded a gust of 68kph at 4.58pm. That's stronger than anything throughout 2023, and in reality a lot stronger than that as the anemometer isn't high enough to avoid shelter from our house and next door's yew tree.

Asterix, the former Gaul. · « **Reply #394 on:** 03 January, 2024, 05:31:20 am »

For York, Met office predicts 10 day cease fire:

Hardly any rain at all
Light winds
Not very cold
Not very warm
Not very sunny

And no more storms.

Duckfoot1606 · « **Reply #395 on:** 03 January, 2024, 06:06:51 am »

Dunno about the wind, but the rain - crikey, flooding like ive never seen before in sunny (

) Loughborough, almost biblical in extent.

River Soar level at Pillings lock currently about 20cm higher than the previous (1998) record

Not going out today, goodness only knows what the state of the roads is.

A

SteveC · « **Reply #396 on:** 03 January, 2024, 07:46:38 am »

One of the four roads out of the village, fortunately the least useful one, is blocked by a very substantial fallen tree. A few yards further down the hill and it might have damaged the old railway bridge which carries the road linking Yeovil to the A303.

robgul · « **Reply #397 on:** 03 January, 2024, 07:58:35 am »

It was pretty windy here in Warwickshire but we were disappointed that a large flexy bough on a tree in the cul-de-sac at the end of our plot that overhangs our garden didn't fall off - the bloody tree is massive but has a TPO so can't be lopped without planning permission. It's, allegedly, the largest walnut tree in Warwickshire - and blocks the light.

FifeingEejit · « **Reply #398 on:** 03 January, 2024, 09:58:52 am »

Quote from: Wowbagger on 02 January, 2024, 11:18:02 pm

My device recorded a gust of 68kph at 4.58pm. That's stronger than anything throughout 2023, and in reality a lot stronger than that as the anemometer isn't high enough to avoid shelter from our house and next door's yew tree.

Pah that's amateur figures...

Actually it's really quite interesting how much of a difference 400 odd miles makes to what's "windy", (and over the next 250miles northwards)

TimC · « **Reply #399 on:** 03 January, 2024, 11:22:26 am »

At 17:50 last night Wattisham (EGUW) - just three miles or so from me - was recording max gusts of 53kt, or 98kph, with a steady speed of 39kt (73kph). That's not a record; the maximum windspeed recorded at Wattisham was 62kts (114kph) during Storm Eunice in 2022*. Other unofficial weather stations nearby recorded 80mph (69.5kt, 128kph). Nothing like the numbers achieved on the West coast or in Scotland, but quite blustery.

*The great storm of 1987 produced similar maximum speeds in Suffolk, but the strongest winds were north of here.

Author Topic: The wind... (Read 32982 times)

ian