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Yes there is, for North Cornwall and South Wales, where risk is greatest. Further Red will only follow when/if there's more certainty regarding an sting jet feature etc.

Yes in Suffolk Rendlesham Forrest was obliterated. May well have been a sting jet. We’re not looking at that severity tomorrow. I doubt I’ll see anything like 1987 in my lifetime.

I've been trying to find where we have seen anything comparable to this in the last few years in Norfolk/Suffolk. The only thing I can find close in the last 5 years is the 18th January 2018, which the MetOffice messed up on, only issuing a warning when the event was already underway. Here's the maximum gusts for that storm, and Friday's storm looks like it will trump this. The storm in 2018 cause a lot of power outages.

The BBC app isn't the clearest. When the symbol is black that means gusts, when it's white it's mean speed. Only shows gusts when they're over 40mph

Arguably you could say the same for any extreme weather. People are struck by lightening, people are killed by extreme cold or heat. People need to take head of the warnings and give weather the respect it deserves.

Dan Holley talking up Friday’s storm for the East more than the national forecast.

28th October 2014 was the last time I experienced such winds in Suffolk, and that was very localised as it was due to a sting jet. 10 miles up the road it was just an average autumn storm. This willow branch flew over 50 yards and nearly hit my grandmothers house. Im sure there were sustained winds over 40mph in January 2018 (obviously gusting much more) but I was on holiday in Australia at the time and missed it.

The sting jet I experienced was on 28th October 2013 which was pretty localised in Suffolk. I recorded a just of 92mph which is insane for inland Suffolk. It only lasted a few moments but there were trees being cleared for days afterwards. A branch from a willow flew some 50 yards and landed just short of my grandmothers house. It was big enough that two of of couldn't move it and had to cut it in-situ. I wasn't alive for the storm of 87 but it seems that those sorts of wind gusts were present for a few hours, I'd be very surprised if I see a storm like that in my lifetime.

Heavy showers already kicking off. Looking at the radar returns, just north of Bury St Edmunds has seen near 30mm in half an hour. With such light winds some places could see some flash flooding today.

Another band will be coming through just after lunch. Still looking like a very wet afternoon for us. Might get a lunchtime walk in mind you.

That's exactly what they've just done. Revised warning for rain now in place: "Spells of prolonged and often heavy rain will continue to affect parts of England today, before clearing from most areas this evening. 20-40 mm of rain will fall quite widely, with a few locations seeing 50-70 mm within around 12 hours - the wettest weather is likely to be over parts of East Anglia, the East Midlands and southeast England, as far west as Hampshire. Some thunder and lightning is also possible, most likely over parts of East Anglia and southeast England but heavy rain is the main hazard."

Yep, saw that. Convergence line I would imagine.

Cell now gone up in East Suffolk about 15 miles from me, and first rumble just heard

Sun trying to come out here with a temp of 22.6C and a dewpoint of 20C Looks like something starting to happen east of Chelmsford going by the radar so convection must be firing up.

Sun trying to break through here. 22.6C here a dewpoint of 20C. My lunchtime walk is certainly going to be sticky.

My word it's close this morning. Raining at 19C with a dewpoint of 18C. It's going to be unbearable when the sun breaks through later. Still, give us a good chance of some surface based storms hopefully.

Reflected in the MetOffice warnings of 30mm in an hour, and 50mm in 2-3 hours.

-1.1C here wind a keen wind blowing - it feels colder today than it has during this whole cold spell I think! No thaw at all today with no sun and very low dew points.

So how cold are we going tonight then guys? MetOffice latest text forecast says -9C (earlier said -10C). Weatherquest at UEA said potentially -12C. How low can we go?

I'm stuck under what shows as light snow on the radar. Have been all day yet nothing is falling. All it's doing is stopping the temperature from falling (holding at -0.1C here). Hopeful that when the wind turns NE and then NNE later tonight we might see some snow showers that North Norfolk has been hogging.

I was thinking that we weren't going to be seeing much more snow out of this cold spell but the latest MetOffice video forecast actually looks pretty good for Eat Anglia right through tomorrow and into tomorrow night.

Lynn looks like it's getting a pasting. Looks like it won't be stopping for some time yet either. Enjoy

I just went out in it to get some firewood in, was covered in snow in seconds. I live on the side of a minor A road and it's gone from being clear to completely covered again within 15 minutes.

Just north of Ipswich. Heaviest it’s snowed so far this cold spell. Video doesn’t do it justice and lots of fine flakes IMG_3166.MOV

Well the one of the East Coast of EA is making a beeline straight for me...I'll let you know. Radar is always a bit unreliable during snow. It hasn't stopped snizzling all day but radar showing nothing