The Midlands Regional Discussion 3rd August 2013>

[Benny123]

Where are you in Stafford? weeping cross area is flooded, never known flooding on roads, between weeping cross and Wildwood, the heavens opened while I was in tenpin, I heard

Really? I noticed the Sow was flooded onto the plains yesterday, over by the Canal. I live fairly Central, so I missed the main punch last night.

[conor123]

Lovely afternoon for once, an extremely rare event this Autumn !! fresher now than the past few days at 12.0c

[picog]

Clear evening and lots of owls hooting and calling. Temperature a surprisingly cool 3.8C.

[Summer of 95]

Was a nice cool clear night.. until another load of cloudy gunk moved in from the west about midnight. What a tedious month this is

[conor123]

Ahh back to the business as usual today, thick low cloud/fog while it's sunny down the road, if anything it's got thicker through the morning.

[Benny123]

Typically the West Midlands looks to be flirting between the Rain and Wind advisories.. *sigh*

[PolarWarsaw]

Personally, I hope it's as rough as sand paper to a smooth surface. The wilder, wetter and windier the better!

[Benny123]

Very true! More recent models suggesting a slightly more Northern track... Lets just hope that central Low ends up somewhere between Manchester and the Borders... that would offer the Midlands something interesting

[I remember Atlantic 252]

hope it misses altogether or arrives at night, both looking very unlikely

[Bishop Brennan]

Personally, I hope it's as rough as sand paper to a smooth surface. The wilder, wetter and windier the better!

 

Agreed, bar perhaps the windy part - many of the trees are still just about in leaf, which of course makes them more prone to being uprooted in strong winds. I hate the sight of fallen trees after a big storm, the only negative to that type of weather really.

 

Bish

[PolarWarsaw]

hope it misses altogether or arrives at night, both looking very unlikely

 

Why? Snow causes more problems than wind/rain ever could and yet you like myself and others pine for that in the winter. 

 

Surely some wild weather is better than endless days of mild boring drivel? If it's sunny it won't be warm enough to do much out doors and if it's cloudy it's boring.

 

 

 

Agreed, bar perhaps the windy part - many of the trees are still just about in leaf, which of course makes them more prone to being uprooted in strong winds. I hate the sight of fallen trees after a big storm, the only negative to that type of weather really.

 

Bish

 

Precisely, extreme heat and cold/snow can cause more issues than something like wind/rain can do in my experience. 

 

Bring it on, heaviest of the winds here please.

 

*If my internet connection goes down - there's hell to pay 

[snowangel32]

Might be reading the the latest charts wrong but the low seems much further south and not as strong hope it doesnt turn out to be a non event as usual, always seems to happen

[cyclonic happiness]

We'll go right through the middle and the centre of the storm will be dead quiet.

I hope so tbh, our polly tunnels at work couldn't stand up to a severe gale.

[Dancerwithwings]

Still a long way to go yet ! In my experience lows like these seem to have minds of there own, It could go north, It could go south! Look what happen in 1987

the night before they were say it was heading for northern france and we all know what happen with that one

 

But looking at the (Ensemble GEFS members) some are going for the southern track but theres still quite a few going for more of a northern track.

Heres (perturbation 19) to give you some idea of where this storm could go>>>>> an interesting few days to come in model watching

 

 

[BlueHedgehog074]

Imagine something like this occurring on Halloween - the strong winds could almost fool you into thinking there were an army of ghost haunting your town/village/etc (he hee).

[Benny123]

And it looks like the charts are once again battling out the truth. The MO aren't taking any chances and have surprisingly extended the Wind warnings a lot further North.. so I guess that's something! Each output is getting more confident.. so think weekend will be an interesting one to watch!

[STORMGUY]

some nice towring cumulus over towards south south west of me.

[Benny123]

some nice towring cumulus over towards south south west of me.

Potentially something Thundery heading in the Stoke direction

[snowangel32]

yh those nasty clouds are right over me

[STORMGUY]

can see first signs of a developing cb now towards south/south west.

[Bishop Brennan]

The wind has really picked up here over the past hour or so.

 

Good, the more leaves that are blown off the trees prior to Monday the better!

 

Bish

Edited October 25, 2013 by Bishop Brennan

[conor123]

Was pretty pleasant at times earlier, maxed at 17.7c so rather nice! some heavy showers after 4pm though and feeling fresher now.

Monday's storm will end up being a breeze and 4mm of rain in the end as always.

[Snowangel-MK]

The wind has really picked up here over the past hour or so.

 

Good, the more leaves that are blown off the trees prior to Monday the better!

 

Bish

 

 

Not if they block the drains and cause a flooding issue on Monday .....just saying 

[Dancerwithwings]

The wind has really picked up here over the past hour or so.

 

Good, the more leaves that are blown off the trees prior to Monday the better!

 

Bish

 

 

Not if they block the drains and cause a flooding issue on Monday .....just saying 

 You just can't win em all !!! hey Bish

[STORMGUY]

Don't know wether or not this as been posted on here but we had a tornado in walsall on sunday.

 

http://www.expressandstar.com/news/2013/10/21/mini-tornado-rips-off-walsall-garage-roofs/

 

http://www.walsalladvertiser.co.uk/PICTURES-Damage-tornado-hits-Walsall-street/story-19974536-detail/story.html

Edited October 25, 2013 by STORMGUY