Richie V

I'm truley perplexed, the last 10 min mean before the 99.2 mph was 55 mph. The final min mean was 73.3 mph.

I have just returned home from work to a scene of carnage. Neighbours house roof badly damaged, tiles scattered over 100 ft or so, garden fence smashed, even one of the concrete posts is snapped. What the hell, my anemometer 10 metres up on the roof is destroyed. The last speed on the console before death is 99.2 mph. Can someone find out for me if there has been any tornadic activity in south yorks or barnsley plz? My house is ok. The anemometer pole was a tv antenna pole and is bent almost flat pointing east.

SSW 15 to 26 mph here. Giong black out west. Pressure falling at 8.2 mb hr at the moment.

I'm nervous and yet very excited about tommorow. I'll explain again the situation here. In Darton I'm high up on a ridge (330 ft), out to my west it dips to under 100 ft gradually over 4 miles then beyond that the land rises out to the pennines peaks. On a clear day I can see over to and beyond saddleworth moor from the bedroom window, a good 30 miles or so. Between saddleworth moor and my house on the ridge in darton a streight westerly is un interrupted. Nothing in the way whatsoever. I record between 15 and 25 mph higher than any given forecast in these situations. Time to buckle up me thinks. Southerly gales are increadibly rare here.

I've been waiting all winter for this one.... The phrase pig in s..t comes to mind, that will be me tommorow eve.

Wowsers, bont mess yourself over it dude. Now yoy know what it has been like in south yorkshire. We have only been proper over 70 mph once this winter. I was beginning to think I was been punished for something.

Yay, finally we get a turn in south yorkshire. Mabe me n The Pit will get to record some big numbers on out stations at last.

I'm going to stand naked on my lawn Seriously though, stay safe guys.

I've always said for the large part, the gfs is fantastic for these weather types. Anything else though, and it really struggles bad.

If this was a greenland or scandi high it would definately not varify, even at this range!Just remember, these swines varify pretty well generally at these timeframes. I'm 85/15 in favour of something big this week.

Yes it is, sorry in light of recent events, that sounds really selfish. Take care folks in the south west.

TBH, by the timr you are up to branch rattler the wind begins to cause problems. Todays max is 45.7 mph here. Though we have just had a huge freak gust of 78.2 mph my ears popped just before. Wind in general starting to really get up now. If you look on rain today theres almost s mini low spinning across north yorkshire in that cluster of showers... Just got a 55.1 mph right now. I bet thetes a few surprises tonight. Yes.... The stormy day to beat was that thursday back in december for us.Excuse the typo's.... Stupid android phone.

not too sure pit, xc maps suggest southerly for the most part. Think comes sat eve we will score this time

This thread brings peace to my heart! Over on the MOD slow watch thread i've taken a heck of a slippering of late for forewarning storms. When will they listen

See post #691... Nothing has changed. Are the lp's getting deep enough for you yet?

Good lord, clutching at the extreme lol. Folks, that eastern euro block is two thirds of the problem. It WILL NOT retrogress with the heavy cold progged for NE Canada / US. for any chance of a decent cold spell now you need this block to be blasted right back into russia and hope the jet weakens on the back of a very deep low here. Without this the deep cold is likely going nowhere from US / CAN. Weakened jet on the back of a huge low with the scandi / Ukraine high shoved back east to allow steep ridging toward Greenland is the best hope now. That block to our NE needs to do one and fast! G' night.

Same old i'm afraid paul, if it don't show cold... Forget it. There are far more serious issues afoot in the next 10 days or so. I think by the end of next week, every news channel and paper in the land will feature the weather as the main headline. Serious rain issues and possible serious wind event are afoot.

Thank you, I seem to have ruffled feathers in here big time this eve. Apologies to the mod team.

Hi Nick,Can't remember if it was you, nick F of steve M that said a while back... "history shows that in nearly every winter bar mabe one, if by the end of jan, no meaningful blocking or cold is or has been present, it won't be there in feb either"Not a direct quote pardon me if im wrong :)Ric

Sorry, a tad off topic but to give an illustration of sun power already at the end of jan...In the latter stages of december the gap between sun and shade was approx 3.8c at 13:30pmYesterday it was 5.9c for the same time, indeed a noticeable increase now.

not perplexing at all, at lest scanning the same output as the mentioned poster and reflected well on this evenings bbc forecasts. Am I on the wrong side of the event horizon here? All the odd comments of odd looking output? No, It's perfectly simple. Seriously guys!!!! do I need to call dial-a-ride?

Snow potential, what he wants to see, hopecasting, dunno?!

by monday there might be not much left of uk! I'm increasingly concerned now. Some of you may wish to pop over to the atlantic storms thread and check it out!!!

Karl, just to let you know, really enjoyed your efforts this winter man, chin up lad!

Aside the fact this is p8 stamp and the gfs 18 z, that date is further away than one of those bbq summers.... Mabe.... Just mabe!