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Fiona Robertson last won the day on October 16 2017

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  1. jmp223 Best I've been able to figure is it's all to do with a strong inflow of cold air entering from the N/NW just as the low exited the jet stream and slamming into it. The warm side of the front was very warm so the temp diff between the two was big. So I think my answer is that it's because popped out of the jet stream just where the angle and position of the cold air streaming down over Greenland would slam straight into it. I'd love to hear from anyone willing to try to work out how it may have behaved had it popped out further west or further east than it did. As an aside, when the cold front passed over me conditions were brutal for maybe 3-4 minutes with torrential rain, a veritable wall of hail and enormous wind gusts. It scared me. I'm no weather professional, at best I'm an enthusiastic, if incompetent, amateur. The only thing I was able to find on a very cursory search was this.
  2. Something's not right on the MetO site. I just lookedup Kinlochewe and got this. There is no way it has a high of 27C!
  3. @Nick123 Oh, good grief! Not what I wanted to hear. I'm hoping it's a tad weaker, but the direction of the winds can have a big effect on the Central Belt wind tunnel. GFS has it a little weaker so I'm pinning my hopes on that.
  4. Even after looking at warning maps for years, this one is clear as mud. Is Edinburgh in the yellow wind or yellow rain warning? Turns out it's in the yellow wind warning and I only found that by scrolling the list of places under the matrix. Slapping both of the labels on the small area of yellow rain warning and putting the rain label further east although it's the wind warning that reaches further eastis counter-intuitive. All that aside, Jocelyn doesn't look as scary as she did yesty afternoon, but still nasty. The winds are picking up here already.
  5. Can someone have a look at the video on meteoblue? If you look at the area of squally stuff coming in, you can see a small area of circulation NW of Scotland,just less than halfway to Iceland. On the left hand side of it there looks to be an air mass plunging south east into the squallsand the combination ofthat and the circulating area looks to be lining up the squallsinto squall lines. The NE edge of Jocelyn is squishing itfurther. Might be of absolutely no importance, but it looks kewel! Weather Satellite Images: United Kingdom WWW.METEOBLUE.COM Discover high-resolution weather satellite images for United Kingdom. ✓ Live data ✓ Cloud movements ✓ Precipitation
  6. The squalls coming in on the back of Isha have been fierce. Me and my chainsaw are dodging them. Thunder was too close for comfort, think there might have been a lightning strike about quarter of a mile from me. There was a definite CRACK! quality to it rather than the usual rumbling.
  7. One of the things I dimly remember is the phenomenon of trees surviving horrendous winds and then coming down the following week in much lesser winds. It's down to the loosening of their rootballs in the first storm along with the action of rainwater in the newly formed air spaces. I'm expecting Jocelyn to bring down trees that survived Isha cos of this.
  8. Leave the horses outta this! Mine are looking miserable cos the gusts with the squalls are blowing the rain into their stables. Jocelyn has me worried. I have what remains of daylight between the squalls to chainsaw one downed small tree and one partially downed large hawthorn bush. If I don't get the hawthorn, Jocelyn will and will take out my fence with it. Looking at the video on meteoblue of Jocelyn curling up is rather hair-raising. She seems more organised than Isha was at this stage. Does that mean that there's a chance Jocelyn will be past her strongest when she reaches us or does it mean she might be even stronger? Excuse me for asking such a dumb question, but I'm clutching at straws here.
  9. That map is interesting. There were two separate amber warnings. South of the line on your map the wording said roof tiles may blow off. North of the line it said roofs may blow off. Both were amber warnings, but the wording was different. I remember this difference in wording because the northern one initially ended to the north of me, but then got extended south into northern England. Even within one warning type there is nuance which is found in the wording and the matrix.
  10. Then be thankful that you were spared the worst. Remember, the MetO has to deal with probabilities. They gave you a heads-up that you might get conditions warranting an amber, but they didn't promise them.
  11. I keep bringing it up, so here's my bird cherry. It was my favourite tree in the garden. It wasn't big, but it was old.
  12. I dug my drainage ditch in a lull in the winds as the warning alerted me of worse to come. I didn't check on the horses every hour through the night as I deemed it too dangerous to go wandering under my bird cherry and the huge beech trees that surround me. Thus, I may have avoided being under the bird cherry when it came down. I say "may" because I have no idea at what time it came down. I also avoided being flattened by the many beech tree branches that came down. In a yellow warning I would have checked on the horses hourly, all night. As it was, I confined myself to checking that the stables were still standing through a side window.
  13. I think that's what's bothering me the most. I know it's daft, but I was really fond of that bird cherry and to see it lying in the garden was a gut punch. The only damage it caused when it fell was to a weird variety of buddleja that I adore, but it'll recover. The house is fine, the stables are fine. My major worry is a hawthorn which is still in the process of uprooting at the side of the house. Our gusts are still pretty bad and they get worse every time a squall comes over. I checked the rainfall radar to work out if there was a safe time for me to be messing about with my chainsaw and the answer seems to be no. There are some squalls heading towards you and there's been some lightning strikes well to the west of you. That means they're heading towards me as well and I do NOT want to be out in that with my battery-powered chainsaw surrounded by tall trees 600ft above sea level.
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