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  1. Looks like it's time to test out the power of prayer. Metoffice and XCWeather are lagging behind in their wind speed predictions for Stornoway, with some very tame figures.
  2. Thanks guys. I'll just google PV before I fling myself under the nearest steamroller
  3. BuriedUnderSnow, I feared you'd say that. Now, you obviously know your weather, and I'm a weather numpty : Would I be right in thinking that we've been getting these non-stop lows for weeks on end because they're not blowing away east over Norway, but instead seem to be stalling over the Faroes for some reason then circling around each other in the north Atlantic drawing in yet more lows ? If so, what's causing this. Has something changed or "gone wrong" ?
  4. 18z is indeed horrific. It seems to be becoming slightly more 'U' shaped than 'V' shaped, so I guess that means a belt of stronger winds around the 'nucleus'. Looks like it won't clear Shetland until Thursday. Then the next system moves in on Friday.... Please, does anyone know or want to hazard a guess when we're going to get some settled weather ?
  5. Milkmaid, it's always best to be prepared. And I certainly wouldn't like to be in Donegal on Tuesday morning. But I'm in the 'not that bad' camp at the moment, looking at Meteociel's 06Z GFS Europe run. Last wednesday/thurdays blast worried me more, and unless those isobars tighten up on the charts before tuesday, I'm already more concerned about the possibility of next Friday/Saturday being nasty.
  6. Ouch ! Hope that's not Stornoway Tesco's food delivery for monday in the ditch...
  7. Hmmm.... that big cyclops thing on meteociel just now for monday / tuesday doesn't look any more tightly packed than some of the lows we've had here in the past month, such as last midweek or late november.... only bigger and thus "spreadin' the love" across a larger area, perhaps ?
  8. Never known a month of such f*****g awful weather in all my life. Everyone on this island is bloody sick of it. Low after low. Day after day of 60+ mph gusts. And now a massive thunderstorm this morning, When will it end ?
  9. That big round yellow thing was in the sky here too this morning. It didn't last long. 70% cloud now, and a heavy shower a minute ago.
  10. Yes. It's utterly wretched. Mind you I'd settle for the 40-50mph gusts just 2 or 3 days a week - here we've got them every sodden day!..... http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/he/stornoway_forecast_weather.html I have less than zero faith in anyones ability to forecast the weather with any semblance of accuracy more than one week ahead - they may as well dangle a string of bladderwrack out their attic window and gaze in a crystal ball, for all the good it will do. So I'm not going to fret over any predictions of whether or not this jetstream-driven nightmare will ever end. Oh no. Instead I'm going to sacrifice my mother-in-law in a wicker frame whilst invoking the mighty Jupiter and Saturn to send me a blocking high. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have a large wicker frame to attend to.
  11. Just 3 of those great live quotes from this storm, bringing this ferocious weather to life for the rest of us. Is this storm going to be named as 'bawbag' was? May I suggest 'bawbuster', or does it merit something beginning with a 'c' ?
  12. "Narrowly" rather than "easily" might be a better choice of words. Let's not forget Shetland had a 100mph(+?) "hurricane" last week :winky: But definately worth investigating.
  13. Barely a breath of wind at the mo on Isle of Lewis, although it was a bit breezy earlier. Snow all gone at lower levels, but feeling damp and a cool 3 degrees c. The hills still have a nice coat of the white stuff. My heart goes out to you folks on the mainland..... we know that sinking feeling of seeing bits of roof airborne only too well. Maybe the jetstream is slowly drifting south. With luck it will give our friends south of the border some of that "interesting" weather they've either been missing or praying for.
  14. Ah yes, but pint + snow x driving = hell ;-) Had some hail followed by sleet this morning. Now rain washing the snow away except at higher levels. The Clisham and other Harris hills are white.
  15. Am savouring a dusting of snow on the Velux window as I type. Maybe just the 2nd or 3rd occasion this winter we've had anything better than sleet here on Isle of Lewis
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