mike57

Heavy rain this morning was replaced by sunny intervals, so lunchtime bike ride happened, but was cut short by a combination of wind, a flooded road and the need to negotiate road works. Wind was SW force 6-7 probably gusting 8 once out of the shelter of the village, with sunny intervals, temps of 11C.

Best day of the week so far, a very light shower during the morning, and lunchtime brought a SW force 3-4 with sunny intervals and temps of 9C

Wet this morning but cleared up at lunchtime, so bike ride was dry if windy, again some showers still about, and again, they missed me. Wind was strong, force 5-7 SW for the first 20 mins or so of the ride then verred W and dropped to 3-5. Temps were 10c and it was cloudy. You can see the back edge of the fronts clearly here, the shower off in the distance missed me.

At the coast a re run of yesterday. Some hefty showers about, but missed me at lunchtime. Broken cloud with quite a bit of sun. Wind started out SW 4-6, but was veering and dropping while I was out, to 3-4 WNW. 11C.

I went into the garden last night after seeing the post and picture from @Wold Topper Our horizon to the north is not that good here, and there is quite a bit of stray light, but I did detect a very feint glow in the north, but couldnt see any colour, and all attempts to photograph it to bring the colour out failed. I hadnt got to grips with night mode for my phone camera. Lunchtime brought a strong SW wind, force 5-6, with broken cloud but some showers about, although they missed me. Temperatures 10C. SW meant a head wind for the first 3.5 miles, and a good bit of that uphill so quite a slog going out .

Well as expected winds here were nothing out of the ordinary, but I would be interested to know how much rain fell last night in our area. It woke me at about 4.30 but I suspect from the state of the ground and roads today that it rained hard most of the night. Lunchtime bike ride got diverted after encountering this leaving the village. Didnt even get as far as yesterdays flood. Retraced my route and did another 8 miles on a different route. Winds were force 3-4 NE with some broken cloud, and temps of 12C

Thats my take, Metoffice have wind speed forecast lower than forecast here, a gale but just a normal autumn one here. Only issue might be direction, Easterly. Rain on the otherhand... Totals are mounting day on day. Ground is waterlogged. Up on the Wolds issues will be quite local, but I imagine people on the various flood plains must be concerned.

I had a lucky escape, I was working in SE London that week, but had wrapped on site up mid afternoon on the Thursday, and headed home to Yorkshire early leaving Kings Cross at 5pm. When I woke the next morning the full impact was clear from the news. Back in Yorkshire it was windy, but no more than a normal autumnal gale. Even at the work site there was no hint of what was coming.

Well lunchtime produced S wind force 4-5 and some hazy sunshine after a wet start. Temperature 12C Everywhere is now saturated, and still some surface flooding locally. I imagine it will get worse towards the weekend. Wet feet coming back I wasnt able to get a run at it.

Another wet morning here. Mrs Mike57 set off to York this morning, reported a lot of surface water flooding again around our area. If the rain later in the week is as bad as predicted I would imagine the Derwent will be reaching flood levels, it was looking fairly full last Friday.

It very much depends on the supply infrastructure. Where we used to live was at the end of long 3.3kV overhead run with a transformer on a pole and further overhead runs at 240v to feed the houses. Every winter we would loose the power at some point often more than once, and on one occasion for nearly a week after a bad snow storm in 1990. I had (still have) an old diesel generator which was sufficent to keep essentials going. Where we live now is mainly underground, and power cuts are much rarer. Generator had one outing in anger last year, none so far this year. A wider scale outage, caused by destruction of the high voltage transmission infrastructure is going to affect a much wider area, and is caused by a breakdown of the national grid. Supply capacity (or the ability to get it where its needed) is less than demand and unless swift action is taken everything breaks down. We have never had an event in the UK on the scale of the USA NE 2003 blackout, although we got very close a couple of years ago. Obviously if a major storm knocked out high voltage distribution over a wide area then a grid collapse could occur as its not then possible to get the power from the generation to the consumers. Most weather related cuts tend to be local, the grid, by its nature has some resilience built in, although there have been concerns that cost cutting is reducing that. Storm Arwen caused some serious power cuts in the NE and Scotland, this was mainly trees going through local overhead lines.

Yes, very wet round here. Fortunately up on the chalk Wold actual flooding on a wide scale doesn't happen, not like the Derwent in Malton or the Ouse in York. To be honest looking at the forecast for the South we are escaping the worst by the look of it. Lunchtime today brought mainly cloudy skies with a very light shower. Winds N force 3 temps 10c

I think this is the problem with the impact and probability matrix as it stands. A severe danger to life storm still gets the yellow warning while probabilility is low, the same warning as much less severe immenent storm. Peoples respsonse to the the two scenarios needs to be different, a severe storm will mean a potential shutdown, where as the less severe storm wont affect most people, unless you are doing something outside for example.

High Mowthorpe was wettest in Yorks & Humber yesterday according to Metoffice, with 16.6mm which backs up my 20mm in the pans, which to be fair was very unscientific. 2nd time High Mowthorpe has been 'wettest' this year, a sign of the easterlies that seem to have been a feature recently.

I put two empty pans in the scrap pile last night ready for scrapman on Tuesday, and there was over 20mm of rain in them this morning. All the usual spot round here flooded.

A lot of rain in the night by the looks of it. Everywhere is waterlogged. Misty, bordering on fog and very damp but wind has dropped.

Well the wet afternoon has turned into a very wet evening with heavy rain and the wind has picked up as well, gusting to 44mph according to metoffice.

And a groundhog day today, went out early as there was a break in the weather, got wet (not a wet as yesterday) during last 10 mins. If I had gone at my normal time would have got wet through. Winds started light S force 2, backing and increasing 3-4 ESE while I was out. Temps 12c but given the damp and greyness academic. BUT I wont complain as memories of the summer weather are still burnt into my memory. Edit/update: One hour later now dark with moderate to heavy rain. Lights on in home office.

Yes lunchtime ride was 45 mins grey but dry and last 15 mins was very penetrating drizzle, not heavy, but the sort that means you still end up looking like a drowned rat...

Not a bad day today, lunchtime brought 14C with sunny intervals and a light force 1-2 SE wind. Fields now look 'soggy' on the Wolds. Quite a few fallen branches around after the storm Friday.

Woodburner lit in the evenings currently, we always start by burning the tatty 'small' wood at this time of year and save the proper logs for when we need a 24hr a day burn. Wood sheds have enough seasoned wood stacked to last the winter, and the good thing, it's only cost me sweat and effort and a bit of electric to gather it cut it and split it. Apart from cost the other advantage is that if we are cold we don't feel guilty about having a hotter fire.

Wind at the coast has eased a bit, now gusting mid 50s mph rather than 60+ at lunchtime, but rain has increased. Moderate to heavy rain for the last hour or so.

Just put some picture and video in the members gallery, taken at Bridlington Harbour around midday. At the coast wind more of a problem than rain.

Just put some pictures and video taken at Bridlington Harbour at around midday in the members gallery. Wind was gusting to 60mph and quite a few branches down on the way home. At the coast wind has been worse than rain. Another bonus video here of a couple getting a soaking 20231020_113744.mp4