Liam J

A wild day in Cumbria thanks to Ciara! Severe gales and flooding.

Following on from the EC 12z ramping up the winds, the 18z ICON is rolling and this model has also upped the wind speeds. Widespread 60-70mph gusts possibly 80-90mph for exposed locations coasts and hills, especially N Wales, NW England and S Scotland on this run. Ciara is now engaging a very powerful jet stream and there still remains a level of uncertainty over the dynamics. At the moment it’s looking like Ciara may turn out to be more intense with higher impacts than currently modelled (until this evenings outputs) as this large system undergoes rapid intensification. Worth noting is the strength of wind tomorrow evening for parts of Wales, N England, Ireland and Scotland, quickly becoming very windy across the UK during Saturday night.

Heads up from the Met Office. Wet and very windy weather to arrive this weekend WWW.METOFFICE.GOV.UK This weekend low pressure returns once again, heralding a spell of wet and very windy weather that looks likely to last well into next week.

Some eyebrow raising charts being churned out atm. Next weekend and into next week could be very intense with numerous severe weather hazards. Stormy pretty much nationwide, snow & blizzards for some, severe windchill, wind damage...

Here we go again! This powerful polar vortex just isn’t letting up this winter. The UK will be coming under the influence of a very large and intense area of low pressure next week as the jet stream gets pushed south by very cold polar air. Stormy conditions making a return.

I think today’s deepening wave should’ve been named, 50-60mph gusts recorded at some inland locations, 70mph+ around some coasts. The UKMET seem reluctant to name any storms, usually Met Éireann and it’s only because this system went over England and Wales they didn’t name it.

Brendan is now undergoing extreme cyclogenisis racing across the Atlantic to become a large cyclone. Pleasant evening ahead of tomorrow’s weather! Nice sunset.

Some violent wind speeds over the Atlantic as Monday’s system undergoes extreme cyclogenisis and develops into a significant windstorm. Very high seas.

Before we get to the beginning of next week some very wet & windy weather today for the north and west with gales or severe gales. The centre of the intense cyclone which develops into Monday over the Atlantic is very close to our shores with the powerful wind field. Severe gales likely as the associated cold front and very unstable air moves across us from the west, further stormy weather likely following this but the exact details need firmed up on as this volatile pattern unfolds.

Looks like an interesting week coming up if you like some very active & stormy weather. A very large and intense cyclone developing in the Atlantic as a wave exiting the States roughly around 1000mb undergoes extreme cyclogenisis, becoming sub 940mb in less than 24 hours. Smaller scale lows coming into the flow with the powerful jet stream will deepen rapidly, some wild weather ahead.

Heading into a very disturbed and volatile pattern from the weekend and into week as the main and intense upper trough moves closer with a racing jet stream. Some potentially very windy and disruptive weather on the way as lows rapidly deepen as they encounter the main trough and the powerful jet stream.

Wet snow falling in Carlisle atm, 1 degree above freezing. IMG_3355.MOV

This is a very intense Polar Vortex we’re seeing atm! The PV visiting the UK with some very disturbed times ahead, certainly the risk of some severe windstorms.

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The UKMet issued a yellow warning about the same time that the disruption started! So no real advanced warnings hence the state of the roads with no highways grit or snow ploughs out and about at all. Got a call from my mum who lives at High Harrington right on the coast, she said she’d just looked out after hearing cars struggling & there’s about 2” of snow, snowing heavily and blowing a gale! In Carlisle it was still wet and sleety but less than an hour later it was 0c and there was a good 3” of snow in places and it was coming down fast, from wet to without in an hour! Major problems on the roads.

Well what a journey along the A595 between Carlisle and Cockermouth last night!! This was already causing major problems before the yellow warning was issued!! These scenes were below 100m! Poor forecast & warnings for this yesterday, Cumbria Council and Highways were not prepared with no gritters/snow ploughs out. Many cars were stranded, thank goodness for winter tyres! 7A77B012-9F27-464B-B290-56CFA9BEC4C0.MOV E5CC8002-DA27-42AF-885F-A43764B895AA.MOV 0594D218-3EEF-4AF8-B096-E5AAE25DDD1F.MOV

Ok so my mums just sent me this, right on the coast at High Harrington Cumbria!! Blizzard! 832DE464-133F-4B45-9B0D-26A3F270EC39.MP4

Possibly something similar next week?! Hopefully plenty of snow chances from the sliders, cold & unstable air with low pressure around

No beast from the east with minus 20 850’s and 6ft of snow on the ECM, but it’s looking cold & there are plenty of snow chances, feeling like winter! Could be far worse... Saw some snow falling yesterday and it’s currently minus 4c here, looking at 1c as the high today, cold ? up north...

Well what a thoroughly boring period of weather! Cloudy day and night no frost no sun. Got to be one of the most boring starts to winter! At least give us some storms, something to break the bore fest.... all the arctic weather seems to be affecting countries that have 30+ degree summers lol couldn’t make it up

Just shows they’ve given up. The UKMET could’ve named Deirdre given the amount of yellow + amber warnings issued and the impacts over wide areas of the country.

One of my friends who lives In Whitehaven been left with a mess from Deirdre overnight although he called it dearie lol he’s got a buckled door, broken window and quite a few slates have blown off. The nearest station St Bees a few miles down the coast from here recorded gusts on the hourly obvs of 72mph @ 00:00 and 76mph @ 01:00am.

Absolute farce. Proper winter storm yesterday- severe gales, rain, snow, freezing rain, ice = dangerous conditions in some of the worst and treacherous weather types. It got named at 10:30pm on a Friday night ahead of a busy weekend in the run up to Christmas, what use was that?! They need to bury this storm naming system.

Cold wet & windy, just the usual then...

Can’t see much if any snow tbh, the 850 temps quickly going positive during Saturday before the main front activity reaches the region. Blizzards no, freezing rain maybe higher up where the freezing level sits. Wind maybe more of an issue but no mention of that in the warning. Aperge for 13:00 Saturday, 850 temps going up.