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I'm pretty sure the sky turning yellow is the met office trying out a new warning system after some backlash.

I'm sure everyone is au fait with the expected weather for today so just a quick overview as this will be covered in detail in other threads. Essentially the UK can be split N/S with the eastern section remaining dry, warm and not that windy whilst to the west the expected low tracks quickly NNE across the west coast of Ireland and then NE across Scotland, filling quite rapidly as it goes, to be around the Western Isles by midnight tonight. Everyone should keep abreast of the detailed warning, particularly for Eire and N. Ireland and western coastal areas and further inland in the north later this afternoon and into the evening. Suffice it to say here that S/SW violent storm 11 is forecast for a time in the Irish Sea. According to this morning's gfs by 12 tomorrow the low will be in the North Sea west of Thurso with high pressure ridging N/NE in it's wake which becomes quite relevant during the week as it pushes the jet south and thus eastward bound troughs will tend to impact the UK Thus by Thursday midnight there is a large negatively tilted upper trough dominating the Atlantic with surface lows poised to the NW and SW of Ireland. Over the next 24 hours the latter, with it's associated fronts tracks ENE to be over eastern England bringing rain, and high winds in the south, to most areas. But it is the next low away to the south west that an eye needs to be kept on. After some very brief ridging on Friday by 18 it jas deepened and is over the south west 973mb bringing with it rain and again the distinct possibility of gales as it tracks across central England overnight. It's worth a glance here at the 500mb and jet stream charts as they illustrate the point I was attempting to make earlier. The low continues on it's journey east leaving the UK in light showery northerly on Sunday before once again there is some transient ridging before the next frontal system arrives from the west during Monday. So no great surprise but quite an unsettled period on the cards with temps varying around the norm. And I'm sure everyone will be pleased to know that Sidney is safely tucked up and sleeping like a baby.

Ophelia has caused one of the most bizarre days of weather and skies I have seen for quite sometime.

Amazing sat pic, not just Ophelia, but the red dust showing up in it too.

Morning Ophelia is giving us some weather to talk about,be it wind,rain,surges,heat etc but i am liking the phenomenon with the Saharan dust turning the sun blood red took some shots of the blood red sun just now,wow you don't see that very often i can't see any sunspots

Amazing, this is more like just before sunset than 1.20pm

London looking like it's been plucked from the banks of the Thames onto Mars looking at the twitter-feed pictures

I hadn't took any notice of the sun until it was mentioned as I thought it was completely overcast outside. But here it is in the Peaks too, with a weird orange/red hue to it.

I made a GIF of Ophelia from the 14th until 9pm last night.

Right. Here's a prime example of what really annoys me. The BBC have a live page which is constantly updated. Down one side they have a summary. That summary mentions what's been happening in ROI and then we get this little gem. "Amber wind warnings are in place in Northern Ireland and in parts of Wales". No mention that parts of Scotland also have an amber warning. Anyone who looks to that live page for a quick summary will be misled. Thanks, English Broadcasting Corporation. Then again it's not as if the Met Office emphasised this until it was too late. They put out their amber warnings for parts of Wales and parts of Scotland AFTER the morning commute to work or school. I'm sorry to go on about this, but I'm really annoyed and seeing that BBC summary was the final straw.

I'm here in Cork, travelled for the storm. Safe to say, Its very eerie. We've been advised not go out after 9am. Will try and get some good videos from the hotel window.

I did indeed make the drive down there, left a little before high tide because the wind was just getting ridiculous and it was blowing the dry sand up into almost dust storm conditions, incredible to see really! Drove along on Freshwater East for an hour or two as well! Small fiestas are not comfortable to sleep in!

I must say that this morning was such a strange but amazing experience here in Cornwall. I left the house in Truro near 7.30am and was greeted to the warmest of winds. It really was like being in front of a hairdryer on a low function. It was about 20c and apparently some stations were near 22c in the early hours. Absurd temperatures (but most welcome!) for that time of the day and to be honest, warmer than a vast majority of day time maxes we get in Summer here!!! On my travels I was noticing how it was taking what seemed an age to lighten up. On my walk to work near Bodmin it was quite eerie as the clouds were low, moving fast and they had a greenish hue to them. The wind was starting to gust a fair bit too. It was quite dark throughout and it was so until about 9am when things started to brighten up. A particular memorable highlight this morning was the smell of the air which to me smelt like pine. It appears the smell was largely from the wildfires in Spain and Portugal. With everything else going on it was the most surreal but exciting experience. A truly tropical feeling spell of weather. All to brief as it has now cleared but a day I will remember for quite some time. I hope everyone else is safe. Take care.

I'm at work in central London. I popped outside to take some photos of the sky earlier, but my camera on my phone didn't do it justice. The pictures above are exactly how the sky went - really eerie!

yellow sky short while ago

Interesting to note.. Looking at my solar data, at exactly midday, I recorded 9W/m² of solar energy. That's around the equivalent output just before sunset.

Irish ingenuity, there...

red sky at night barn is alight ..red sky in the morning barn still burning... red sky in the afternoon ARMAGEDDON

The dark area on the WV Water vapour imagery is very dry stratospheric air, being drawn down and into ex-Ophelia

We will have to wait for the analysis to see when it did truly change, the MO comment alluded to pieces of jigsaw not quite fitting across the Atlantic in communications. It was an unusual setup. So we can not assume one or other was right or wrong. Also has been a lot of shrieking about Ambers and Red warnings, again no-one will be mucking about with this. Weather is these peoples lives, they live and breathe it like some on the forums. Everyone wants this to go as well as it can.

When I said in April I'd really like a light dusting by mid October, this... Isn't quite what I meant!

Wow. Taken with an I phone just before it clouded over! Looks fake but isn't.

Is it orange enough to render Donald Trump invisible?

My tired Monday brain initially interpreted this as 'one of the bouys is on fire!!' and I immediately thought blimey, s*** just got real. Considerably quieter in my part of the country but we also have the eerie yellow and the trees are having a bit of a wave. I'm enjoying the photos and reports, keep them coming!

Wow

Sky here currently

Now the sun is up we can view Ophelia on the Sat24.com satellite: https://en.sat24.com/en 08.40 And another view, this water vapour satellite image from Iceland Met Meteosat-10: http://brunnur.vedur.is/myndir/seviri/2017/10/16/seviri_nat_wv_high.html 07.00

County Cork. Southern Ireland. 22577868_2003700819865012_416526495301763072_n.mp4

91 mph at Isle of Man airport, pretty frightening winds now.

Dear BBC, What has a storm 30 years ago in the SE of England got to do with current news of Ophelia? More appropriate to a history program than a rolling news broadcast. Simply drivel to bury other news..

All is calm in carlisle, very dark with a yellow glow no winds :/

I've been watching that bunting since the day before yesterday. I'd become emotionally invested in it. It was my equivalent of Hector the Palm Tree. Even in the dark, because of the street lights, you could see the bunting flap around.This morning it began doing loop-de-loops as the sky cleared over it; one minute it was hanging limply, the next it was straight up in the air, then to the left, to the right. I even heard the"SNAP!" Now that's weird... just typed Stereo MC lyrics... and I saw them in Cork supporting U2 on the Zooropa tour.

Currently in conwy north Wales, very warm and humid here with a slight breeze. The sun is very odd, blood red like a sunset although it's high in the sky, never seen anything like it! A bad omen?!

Whilst many of you worry about Ophelia’s wind and rain, here in the south east it feels strangely tropical for other reasons

Latest at the met o

Flash messages on television

Sky in Brum just after midday.

Serious damage across cork. Full blown hurricane

Arrived in west wales, things getting pretty rocky here. Debris from trees everywhere on the roads. Got my kestrel 3000 with me, so will try and get some readings. Been out the loop for 4 hours, is west wales still due to get 70-80 mph gusts? cheers karl

Bunting just snapped in Waterford!

spooky stuff

Time of photo 10.34 BST. Ok, now not a brilliant photo I know, but I’m just out with the hound on his mid morning walkies, when I looked up at the sky, and saw that the sun was blood red! Now I’ve seen orange coloured suns at this hour, but only on hot sticky sultry summers days before a big thunderstorm breaks out. But never a red sun. Me thinks that hurricane Ophelia is going to make this an interesting day! Stay safe people. By the way, morning everyone.

Meanwhile in E Cork.. the birds

Love the bottom three lines of this sign.

Possible hallmarks of a sting jet to SW of Ireland looking at Eumetsat airmass imagery, where dry air intrusion from aloft is wrapping into the southern side of Ophelia and allowing downward momentum of very strong winds aloft. Striations at the end of the hook seem to me to further suggests this.

Knew there was a reason for this storm lol. All his interests seem to attract bad weather.