southern_softie

I remember the needles famously had their anemometer destroyed in 1987. I beleive it recorded 106mph before breaking.

So Finally got our power back late last night.. 1st job was to inspect the freezers, throw out all the stuff that handn't survived. Thankfully most stuff was still frozen. We've been here 10 years and the worst power cut we've had prior to this was 3 or 4 hours. This one was 58hours. Glad its all over.

excellent, your data was just getting interesting..

does it have a battery back up to keep recording, or do you just get a gap?

Not got a weather station.. but just getting gusts now enough to make we worried we'll lose trees.. (10s of hard gust where you can see all the trees bending for most of their height). At least we should lose fewer trees than 87, as then they all still had their leaves on.

not sure it did in 87... it just broke (I think it recorded 106 then some vital part blew away)

Drag is a square law.. but power to overcome drag (as in horse power to make your car go faster) ends up being cubic (i.e. 100hp =~105mph, 200hp=~140mph, 1000hp~=200mph).. so 80mph is ~ 77% more drag than 60mph

We're on firewood, bottled gas for cooking and flaky electricity.. I'll probably empty the woodshed this evening, bring the rest of this winters wood inside, just in case. Nothing much I can do about the trees in the garden.. if they fall then I'll be out there turning them into logs for next winter.

I'm guessing it simply won't happen. (everything cancelled)

BBC weather has wind gust to 89/92/94/92 over 4 hours in Southampton tomorrow. This had better be wrong or it b100dy-well ought to be a Red warning if true!!!.. (live in bottom right hand corner of Wiltshire, got an appointment in Southampton tomorrow AM)

Well here at the northern tip of the New Forest we've had a light dusting, nothing like enough to cover the grass. More snow looking unlikely... boooo!

Location: Whiteparish (a few yards north of the New Forest) Finally!!.. first snow. As of 7am, we have about an inch with light snow faling. -3C ish, wind 0 to very light. Children: extatic!

Bother.. they use backwards dates here.. thought this was last winter

Thanks for the link I've just been through the same day in december (14th) in every year since '98. The two years that stand out as being anything like this year are 2010 2015 good news?.. not sure, but seing 2010 come up isn't exactly bad news.

To my untrained eye the greenland-iceland gap is looking narrow. Anyone got some past years data to compare?