wimblettben
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Yes Its clear that the area of strongest winds didn't hit the main cities as we would be seeing a very different picture now. Don't be dissapointed though William, we should all be thankful. I would never wish 200mph sustained winds on anyone and was relieved when I'd seen the cities in Mexico still standing on the morning news. -
Surprised to hear of this going on to be honest. Doesn't anyone find it very odd that this has developed so much within the space of a day? By the way, anyone who thinks they can ride out winds of 200-250mph are very uneducated unless they live in an underground storm shelter. Lets not forget that an EF5 tornado has winds of 201-234mph at ground level and look at how much damage they cause.
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Yes. I'd imagine the type of storms you witness the most are Windstorms rather than Thunderstorms in your part of the world.
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I would have said the same thing back earlier in the year, but as this year has turned out to be such a let down so far it just doesn't even bother me anymore. Its got to the point where every time a risk of thunder has been forecast, I just ignore it or say quietly to myself 'yep well that won't happen!'
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Severe Atlantic storms February 2014
wimblettben replied to Liam J's topic in Storms & Severe Weather
If you say it actually bent your pole right down and caused the damage you describe I can see that reading being true to be honest and not false. It was probably some isolated powerful squall or something that other areas were not affected by. -
Yeah right, near 60mph gusts which can break branches or uproot trees was just in your books a tad breezy. Come on man!
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Suprised there wasn't any damage done in the garden to be honest with the frequent 50mph gusts I had. All of the bins got blown down however, usually its just one or two. There are a few weak trees around the area that have branches broken off or some uprooted, not in the imediate vicinity though.
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It got to 63mph last night on the house with quite a few 50mph gusts. Suprised i'm hearing of gusts of only 70mph on exposed areas, would have thought it would have been higher then that considering what I got.
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That looks a bit stronger for us here tomorrow compared to yesterday.
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Well the winds here this afternoon were the same as over christmas but just for a shorter period of time. Had one gust of 47mph and another of 46mph on the house so a bit higher then I was expecting.
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Seems to be a lot of talk of thunderstorms. Are there any coming my way in Wiltshire
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If that deep low does come off on Saturday then the storm for tomorrow would seem like nothing in comparison for us in the southwest.
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I guess its just a case of wait and see but i'm saying that we here won't expect much now based on the fact that 60mph gusts were forecast in the last storm but we only had a gust of 43mph. It does look bad for the worst areas effected, and maybe because of all of the rain another 40mph+ gust may do more damage here then it otherwise would.
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Sorry, that aint going to happen. Just another case of the silly models over doing the lows I'm afraid.
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Yes, not really going to be noteable now for us here unless it changes as we had forecast 60mph gusts last Saturday yet we only had a gust of 43mph.
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To be honest I would say its the track which is causing the most headaches as I think the intensity is pretty much spot on now. Winds for southern areas similar to what we had over the weekend, but something much more menacing for northern areas.
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I have a feeling that the low showing for Saturday has moved north out of france because as time goes on its just going to end up being over Ireland again giving the worst winds for northern areas.
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Will probably end up further north again as time goes on.
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With the fact that this storm is going to be deepening the most as it reaches us, tells me that the models won't really have a realistic showing of the track or strength until very near the event. There is a possibility that this storm could completely change direction in the last minute or suddenly deepen out of no where at the moment.
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Thats in km/h mate!
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Worst winds still away from us though. Good news for most around here I guess.
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Well we can only go on what the models show can't we!
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Noticed somones post got deleted, don't know why. Anyway yes it will be a bad storm for whoever it hits, but thats not the point. I am annoyed as its just going to end up like a typical blowy day for us down here.
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Looks like another pathetic storm for us down here now then. Just more heavy rain where flooded areas don't need it.
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Thats got to be a joke! There won't even be a storm if that happens!!!!!
