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    South East England/East Anglia Regional Weather Discussion 07/02/14

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    Posted · Edited by coldfingers

    OK John - gotcha.

     

    I'm worried about my car which my husband is taking into Cambridge for a college lunch tomorrow... the Trinity College car park on the Backs has some rather large trees and I'm worried that one of them will come down on it while he's quaffing wine and tucking into his lunch.

     

    PS About the fencing, plant a hedge instead. Much better at filtering wind, lasts forever, only needs one trim a year (none at all for the first 2 years) and it's grown up in no time if you pick the right sort of hedging plants. We find Hornbeam does very well in EA better than beech and a lot quicker.

     

    Hi Iceni, problem is a hedge will just let my terrible terrier right through it. Otherwise I totally agree with you! I think a hedge and a fence is an option. Sadly i have a mutt that thinks he is the only canine that should be allowed to roam this earth!! He is also such a stupid mutt that he will go out in any weather including torrential rain and even enjoys watching fireworks! A true devil dog! LOL. He was a rescued stray and it has taken us 2 years to tame him but the best thing is he loves stormy weather as much as I do.

     

    And just to pacify the mods,..... Posted Image   the wind here is getting much gustier  and we are now getting light rain.

    http://www.chimet.co.uk/%28S%28okivqw45kv2vrcbovlbq2o45%29%29/wind.aspx

    South East England/East Anglia Regional Weather Discussion 07/02/14

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    Posted · Edited by coldfingers

    A builder friend of mine is putting up loads of concrete fence posts and new panels, good luck to him - he does a good job too,

     

    Very hard to get new fence panels down here, a waiting list I think!

    And no point putting in the concrete posts here until the ground dries up. Our Fence is leaning because the ground is so wet now that the concrete posts are rocking in the squidgy earth!

    Still I give thanks we are safe from flooding, that is the worst nightmare for people.

    Atlantic Storms February 2014

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    The wind is now blowing, the customary rattle and whoosh of the storm we are so familiar with , the sea is in a state, such that only gulls await the smashed remains of life, in the flotsam all along the coast, how they fly in this weather is amazing and a demonstration pure superiority. We are so small. I am sure they laugh at us in this weather, they know full well that one mistake and your dinner.....

     

    LOW 946mb West of Ireland, satellite photographs are looking menacing, animation shows a high rotation rate around the eye IMO.Posted Image

     

    Hi Rusty, "only gulls await the smashed remains of life, in the flotsam all along the coast" how true this remark is! So much flotsam on the shore at the moment that it is really interesting to take a stroll along the strand line. Stay safe tomorrow and watch out for Tuesday/Wednesday, I feel that has more potential than tomorrow.

    South East England/East Anglia Regional Weather Discussion 07/02/14

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    Nate needs to protect his gate. Mike needs to take care of his bike. Len needs to batter down hatches for his hens.

    In other news; Charlwood is getting an increasingly strong breeze with the odd stronger gust. Precipitation is light but continuous.

     

    Spent 20 minutes this evening in the garden shoring up the garden fence which is starting to lean a lot in a couple of places. Also I have been propping up the garden gate that ihas already come off of one hinge and we now have 3 large branches propping it up one side as well as a zinc bath full off water plus a paving slab, and the other side has 3 very large plant pots in front of it. So I am hoping it stays on the one remaining hinge and doesn't do a Mary Poppins and go sailing across the neighbours houses!

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    South East England/East Anglia Regional Weather Discussion 07/02/14

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    Evening all..Hope everyone well. Would have posted this morning, But lack of time, Drove down the hill this morning to a river bed of stones that had washed of the fields,WOW..The speed humps had turned into miniature cobbles and wobbles....Anyway next one due in soon,They are like trains arn't they, Well in fact the Atlantic more reliable lol.I am hoping that now the Express have jumped on the Atlantic express for "The Biggest storm ever" than 87.

    Our fortunes have now changed, I wished they had changed weeks ago,As we can shovel snow....but not rain.Posted Image

     

    And wasn't it in November when they said we would have 6 months of severe winter weather with snow until May? Posted Image

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    Atlantic Storms February 2014

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    Looking like after early next week we should see a slow improvement thankfully. The ECM and ukmo doesn't look as potent in the storms for early next week now thank god. And at least we are seeing neap tides this weekend so we shouldn't see much coastal flooding thankfully. All in all hopefully light at the end of a very long tunnel next week.

    I really hope you are right terrier but for the South Coast it looks like almost non-stop rain still for the next couple of weeks at least.

    Atlantic Storms February 2014

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    Posted · Edited by coldfingers

    Hope it's ok to ask these questions in here, seems like the best place but please move if not.

     

    How are "storm lovers" feeling about what's going on? Because of the problems in the South-West (and all around my area too, just not making the nationals), have you started feeling a little embarrassed about wanting big storms to hit? I've lived near the coast most of my life and I love seeing massive waves crash on the beach and feeling the force of a strong gale. But I'm now feeling I can't look forward to these storms any more because you know the trouble they are causing.

     

    Or is anyone after another 1987 and are actually getting excited by what next week might bring? I was just a boy in 1987, living slightly inland in the South East, and I remember being scared out of my mind waking up at 2am in the morning, and looking out of my window, it really did seem like the world might end - but I'm kind of glad I got to experience it. Maybe some on here are too young to remember,or maybe lived in a different part of the country, and would like to know what the fuss was all about.

     

    I imagine it's a tricky thing if you love storms or want to experience the extremes of nature. Some of the charts for next week clearly fit that category, though far from nailed on. But with the winter we're having, has it become wrong to want the worst charts for next week to actually happen?

    Personally rjbw I think if you enjoy storms then carry on enjoying them. Nothing you feel about them will change what happens or doesn't happen. I was down on the coast here in '87 aged 36 and I slept through the worst of it. Horrified the next day by the devastation and loss of life but that did spark my continuing interest in the weather and as I couldn't have made one iota of difference to the outcome then I say enjoy it if you wish to. And yes, I feel very sorry for some people severely affected but I also realise they most often made the choice to live where they did, despite living in 'dodgy' areas. In Somerset I feel very sorry for the people as that was mainly caused by mismanagement of the watercourses, not by nature alone.

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    Possible Storm This Weekend Discussion

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    Posted · Edited by coldfingers

    I agree 100% with ya mate was it any worse on the south coast last week no and this seems to be effecting more of the country

    Yes it WAS worse on the South Coast last week! I know because I saw it!! Neighbours greenhouse didn't just lose a few panes of glass but was blown across their garden! I personally saw at least 10 trees down in a half mile area of my own town and also saw one snapped off 5 feet from the ground and the rest of the tree going through the roof of my friends extension. Next time be sure of your facts. the next day I was on a bus and saw so many trees down but no it wasn't anything like as bad as '87 and neither is today's storm anything like as bad. Oh and by the way, the storm here lasted well over 6 hours at the height of it last week.

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    Possible Storm This Weekend Discussion

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    The Met Office has warned of gusts of 50-60 mph, 70 mph

    along exposed coasts.

    On Twitter Dyfed Powys Police said they are receiving "a

    high volume of calls reporting trees down and other damage caused by high winds".

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    Possible Storm This Weekend Discussion

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    Down to 81mph already at Mumbles. looks like this is passing fairly quickly thankfully! Hope everyone in Wales stays safe and as far as warning goes, surely people should be aware of current conditions and act accordingly? No-one should ever try to blame METO for getting hurt whether there are warnings or not. Whatever happened to common sense? 45 years ago my car almost got hit by a falling tree. That was an unexpected storm and I blamed myself for driving out when it was clearly not the safest thing to do.

    South East & East Anglia Regional Weather Discussion 26/10/13

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    Posted · Edited by coldfingers

    I can hear a few chainsaws going from here. Daughter phoned landlord to report no electricity as water come if from the roof of the flat above and into the electricity of both flats. His response? I have houses with half their roofs off I can't worry about electricity!!! Wonderful man. They have just dried round it and put electric on even though their latest fire alarm test showed the system needed replacing. They will just have to turn the elctric off when they go to sleep! If it is true roofs were damaged then this was one mighty storm!

     

    OT. Does anyone know if they can get an electrician in themselves and charge the landlord? It is worrying me as they are only young.

    Monday's storm - into Europe.

    in Storms & Severe Weather

    Posted

    I can hear a few chainsaws going from here. Daughter phoned landlord to report no electricity as water come if from the roof of the flat above and into the electricity of both flats. His response? I have houses with half their roofs off I can't worry about electricity!!! Wonderful man. They have just dried round it and put electric on even though their latest fire alarm test showed the system needed replacing. They will just have to turn the elctric off when they go to sleep! If it is true roofs were damaged then this was one mighty storm!

    Monday's storm - into Europe.

    in Storms & Severe Weather

    Posted · Edited by coldfingers

    Posted A minute ago

    Sussex Police â€@sussex_police 9m

    At 6.30am we'd had reports of 125 trees down across roads in Sussex. Be careful, especially on the smaller roads during #sussexstorm

     

    Just been checking out neighbours properties from my windows. Numerous fences down, one greenhouse blown across garden, thankfully can't see any structural damage anywhere which is a relief as this storm has kept me awake almost all night by its ferocity.

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