helen of the north

Caithness has been fairly breezy since about midnite. This morning the worst end of it. Maybe up to 60 mph SSE gusts. Drove north to Wick and wind seems to be less here.

Shaping up to be a proper hoolie. West is a good direction for my location though at least. Netweather has top gust forecast for friday morning here at 87mph. Id like to hope it doesnt go any higher... that is for sure!

Orange area. Yup.

perigean spring tide.. two supermoons this month.

aberdaron 109mph gust recorded in last hour!? http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/wl/aberdaron_latest_weather.html

top gust 78.7 mph at 16:28 and ramping up again with gusts in the mid 70's the past hour. 992mb currently.

948.7mb and steady here at thurso/scrabster. Blowy.

thanks john, thats very helpful, will save image as a guide to go by. Thanks,

judging by the T-120 meto chart we've got NE or maybe NNE winds gusting maybe 70mph ish at best up here? Still not great at judging to within the tens of mph by closeness of isobars yet but, that's my guess. Going by the track between the T-96 and T-120 it is passing well south of us now, eye through southern scotland whereas few days ago it had progged us to take the eye over northern scotland.

bobbydog, i couldna agree with you more about ignorance causing injury. i am absolutely furious about some of the things that happened last thursday. My neighbours ken fine that the week before a few pig and sheep shelters blew over in 80mph winds and then they ken that an even bigger storm is coming and they tie nothing down!! I spent the next day cleaning up all their stuff that blew onto my croft. Trailer loads of it! Some of it damaged one of our buildings badly which is the only real damage we had and do i even get an apology? Naw! I pulled a plank of wood out of the ground sticking straight up in the air buried stabbed two feet into the ground. Imagine what that woulda done if it hit someone?? Coulda hit one of my coos too. My other neighbour is absentee and has the entire roof of a metal barn sitting on top of the roof of the house which is mega damaged but, i tried txtin, phoning this neighbour and nothing. Next wind it may blow off and by the looks take the hoose roof with it and may hit somebody elses hoose! Deciding whether i phone the council about it or not. it not like high winds are a freak occurence in caithness, tie yer stuff down people! Sorry, rant over. :roll:

bobbydog, i couldna agree with you more about ignorance causing injury. i am absolutely furious about some of the things that happened last thursday. My neighbours ken fine that the week before a few pig and sheep shelters blew over in 80mph winds and then they ken that an even bigger storm is coming and they tie nothing down!! I spent the next day cleaning up all their stuff that blew onto my croft. Some of it damaged one of our buildings badly and do i even get an apology? Naw! I pulled a plank of wood out of the ground sticking straight up in the air buried stabbed two feet into the ground. Imagine what that woulda done if it hit someone?? My other neighbour is absentee and has the entire roof of a metal barn sitting on top of the roof of the house which is mega damaged but, i tried txtin, phoning this neighbour and nothing. Next wind it may hit somebody elses hoose! Deciding whether i phone the council about it or not.

tuesday at 15:00 netw gives me a forecasted barometric pressure of 951mb and on friday at 21:00 it says 948mb!

pretty gnarly winds all round folks. Hope nobody has too much damage. Setttled down considerably here now. though 60 mph gusts to carry through to tomorrow evening.

that must be the eye making its way over me. Bright, sunny, blue sky overhead, wind dropped to next to nothing and rain off. Local barometer says 968mb and falling and says in last 12 hours dropped -35 mb. Big bank of cloud to the SE of me moving out to sea.

LMAO weathermaster! Bloomin hard lot oot there! "Och it's jist a wee bitty of a breeze oot e day." meto had me for 90mph at 21:00 tonight. It's jumped down to 88mph now. Thinking it may go back up yet before it hits though. Raining and breezy here the now.