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  • Location: South Yorkshire
  • Location: South Yorkshire

I've been excited over a good storm for too long now and read the ooohaaas on netweather for it to be a blink and you'll miss it afair

 

Would like to be proved wrong this time

 

Well I'm on your side, Vic! A total non-event for us right from the start and even if the prognostics were otherwise it'd still be the same - guaranteed. Tempting fate? You bet I am. I'll tell the missus not to bother weighing the bin down.

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  • Location: Near Romford Essex.
  • Location: Near Romford Essex.

I've been excited over a good storm for too long now and read the ooohaaas on netweather for it to be a blink and you'll miss it afair

 

Would like to be proved wrong this time

 

Be careful what you wish for Neil..........

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  • Location: Longwell Green, near Bristol
  • Weather Preferences: Storms, Gales, frost, fog & snow
  • Location: Longwell Green, near Bristol

GEFS forecast track of the low;

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  • Location: Home near Sellindge, 80m/250feet, 5miles from Coast
  • Weather Preferences: Severe Storms and Snow
  • Location: Home near Sellindge, 80m/250feet, 5miles from Coast

Don't feed the troll! Posted Image

 

I'm a troll?

 

haha

 

I'm making a stand due to the epic failings of every storm being forecasted and being nothing like as such.... I'm still waiting for my SEVERE WEATHER WARNING 10CM+ HIGH RISK BLIZZARDS IN PLACES ;)

Anyway we shall see :)

Well I'm on your side, Vic! A total non-event for us right from the start and even if the prognostics were otherwise it'd still be the same - guaranteed. Tempting fate? You bet I am. I'll tell the missus not to bother weighing the bin down.

 

Noted!

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  • Location: Near Lowestoft
  • Location: Near Lowestoft

Southernman has described the Selsey tornado to me, he was living there.

 

 

Weird it was. I was sitting on the edge of my bed at about 11.50 pm. I said to my other half about the patter of hailstones on the window. All of a sudden they were the size of marbles and bigger so I moved back away from the window. My OH had already ducked under the covers ! Then there was this roaring noise and it felt like the wall and windows were going to be sucked out then it seemed like they were pushed the opposite way. The windows didn't break, thank goodness, but the walls had cracked on some room corners and the cracks were big enough to get your fingers in. From floor to ceiling. Some are still able to be seen.

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  • Location: Sunderland
  • Weather Preferences: Hot Summer, Snowy winter and thunderstorms all year round!
  • Location: Sunderland

lets keep things a: on topic.....& b: polite please...................you know the score....ta! Posted Image

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  • Location: Penkridge
  • Weather Preferences: Virgins
  • Location: Penkridge

If memory serves me correctly the Great Storm (87) gave rise to the 'sting jet' theory.... hang on let me find a description.

 

A sting jet is a meteorological phenomenon which is believed to be the cause of the most damaging winds in European windstorms.

Following reanalysis of the Great Storm of 1987, led by Professor Keith Browning at the University of Reading, researchers identified a mesoscale flow where the most damaging winds were shown to be emanating from the evaporating tip of the hooked cloud head on the southern flank of the cyclone. This cloud, hooked like a scorpion's tail, gives the wind region its name the "Sting Jet".[1]

It is thought that a zone of strong winds, originating from within the mid-tropospheric cloud head of an explosively deepening depression, are enhanced further as the "jet" descends, drying out and evaporating a clear path through snow and ice particles. The evaporative cooling leading to the air within the jet becoming denser, leading to an acceleration of the downward flow towards the tip of the cloud head when it begins to hook around the cyclone centre. Windspeeds in excess of 80 kn (150 km/h) can be associated with the Sting jet.[2]

It has since been reproduced in high-resolution runs with the mesoscale version of the Unified Model. The Sting jet is distinct from the usual strong-wind region associated with the warm conveyor belt and main cold front. There are indications that conditional symmetric instability also plays a role in its formation but the importance of these processes remains to be quantified.[3][4]

One storm, Cyclone Tilo (November 6-11, 2007) has also been analysed and found not to display a sting jet, despite displaying strong surface winds and a fractured cold front.[4]

 

Source Wikipedia.

 

 

I'm trying to figure out wether we'll be in the same territory again this weekend...

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  • Location: Newbury, Berkshire. 107m ASL.
  • Weather Preferences: Summer:sunny, some Thunder,Winter:cold & snowy spells,Other:transitional
  • Location: Newbury, Berkshire. 107m ASL.

1987 hurricane is raging, trees falling, etc, my cousin decides she is going into labour in the middle of it.lol.

 

It brings them on, don't you know, or so I've heard. Deep lows make the ladie's scream and shout, well at least if they're expectant mothers. Posted Image

 

Sorry for bringing this thread down to less stormy ground. Posted Image

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  • Location: Hayward’s Heath - home, Brighton/East Grinstead - work.
  • Weather Preferences: Snow and storms
  • Location: Hayward’s Heath - home, Brighton/East Grinstead - work.

I'm a troll?

 

haha

 

I'm making a stand due to the epic failings of every storm being forecasted and being nothing like as such.... I'm still waiting for my SEVERE WEATHER WARNING 10CM+ HIGH RISK BLIZZARDS IN PLACES Posted Image

Anyway we shall see Posted Image

 

Noted!

Neil, surely it is better to go with the opinion that even though other forecast storms have failed to materialise quite as expected and modeled, it is better not to assume that this will be the case this time. In that way not only do you get your point across, but you also respect the fact and other posters concerns, that this could be a potentially dangerous storm should the modeling be correct at this point.

 

Just as well that you are not the chief forecaster!!

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  • Location: Ireland
  • Location: Ireland

If memory serves me correctly the Great Storm (87) gave rise to the 'sting jet' theory.... hang on let me find a description.

 

A sting jet is a meteorological phenomenon which is believed to be the cause of the most damaging winds in European windstorms.

Following reanalysis of the Great Storm of 1987, led by Professor Keith Browning at the University of Reading, researchers identified a mesoscale flow where the most damaging winds were shown to be emanating from the evaporating tip of the hooked cloud head on the southern flank of the cyclone. This cloud, hooked like a scorpion's tail, gives the wind region its name the "Sting Jet".[1]

It is thought that a zone of strong winds, originating from within the mid-tropospheric cloud head of an explosively deepening depression, are enhanced further as the "jet" descends, drying out and evaporating a clear path through snow and ice particles. The evaporative cooling leading to the air within the jet becoming denser, leading to an acceleration of the downward flow towards the tip of the cloud head when it begins to hook around the cyclone centre. Windspeeds in excess of 80 kn (150 km/h) can be associated with the Sting jet.[2]

It has since been reproduced in high-resolution runs with the mesoscale version of the Unified Model. The Sting jet is distinct from the usual strong-wind region associated with the warm conveyor belt and main cold front. There are indications that conditional symmetric instability also plays a role in its formation but the importance of these processes remains to be quantified.[3][4]

One storm, Cyclone Tilo (November 6-11, 2007) has also been analysed and found not to display a sting jet, despite displaying strong surface winds and a fractured cold front.[4]

 

Source Wikipedia.

 

 

I'm trying to figure out wether we'll be in the same territory again this weekend...

 

For what it's worth, a poster on UKWW (Dave W) suggested that very strong winds higher up could travel down to the surface in convective gusts :

 

Worth noting theres some limited instability suggested in the GFs 12Z op early Monday in the warm sector or developing seclusion as the low deepens quickly and unusually strong winds just above the surface at the 925mb level of 85kt/100mph nr Channel Isles.. there might be a suggestion that incised convection could have the potential to bring these winds down to the surface .. ie) not the behaviour of a classicly Norwegian/Bjerknes depression

 

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  • Location: Near Lowestoft
  • Location: Near Lowestoft

Oops sorry Nick, I forget about trolls. Posted Image

 

A nice web-cam from Bognor if Monday does come off. better in daylight!

 

http://www.bognorregisbeach.co.uk/live

 A couple at Bunn Leisure in Selsey too.

 

http://beautifulbeach.bunn-leisure.co.uk/webcam.aspx

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  • Location: Manchester Deansgate.
  • Weather Preferences: Heavy disruptive snowfall.
  • Location: Manchester Deansgate.

Mind you Its a fine line between wanting interesting weather and hoping people are safe I suppose.

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  • Location: Bognor Regis West Sussex
  • Location: Bognor Regis West Sussex

 A couple at Bunn Leisure in Selsey too.

 

http://beautifulbeach.bunn-leisure.co.uk/webcam.aspx

Thanks for the link, can never have too many webcams when it is stormy. Selsey sticks out into the Channel further than Bognor so may catch the weather more, depends which direction the wind comes from. Nice to have a cam facing east and one west too!

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  • Location: Penkridge
  • Weather Preferences: Virgins
  • Location: Penkridge

During my digging around I have just put to bed an event I remember as a small child (4-5 yrs). I remember fence panels flipping end over end down the street during a monster gale. Scared the crap out of me back then... turn out to be the Gale of January 1976...

 

In the midlands this was a bigger event than the 1987 storm, maybe it just sticks in my mind seeing those fence panels suspended in the air.

 

Does anyone else remember this one?

 

Sorry to derail the topic but i'm really pleased that I have a date for an event I was starting to think I imagined.

 

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  • Location: Aldborough, North Norfolk
  • Location: Aldborough, North Norfolk

Normally at this time of night I get really frustrated with the FAX charts as the 72, 84 and 96 hours are all showing the chart for the same time.  Tonight however we can look at the differences between what was expected 36, 24 1=and 12 hours ago.

 

The gif below loops between the 3 charts, I think the thing I notice most is that whereas on the 96 and 84 hour charts there are 2 distinct frontal regions associated with this low, by the time we get to the T72 chart, there is a fairly complex triple point with much more warm air entrained in the Warm sector of the low.  I' also drawn to the closeness of the 564 and 546 DAM lines and the fact they get closer as the charts get newer.  There looks as though there is an awful lot of rain tied up with this and the only thing that will prevent (too much) flooding is the speed at which it's being driven by the Jetstream

 

 

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Positioning wise, it hasn't changed very much which would suggest the Met has a reasonably handle on it  --  hence the early Amber Warnings

 

the gif looks as though it's running in the wrong order, the 96 hr is the oldest 72 hour the youngest

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  • Location: Near Lowestoft
  • Location: Near Lowestoft

Thanks for the link, can never have too many webcams when it is stormy. Selsey sticks out into the Channel further than Bognor so may catch the weather more, depends which direction the wind comes from. Nice to have a cam facing east and one west too!

 

Thanks for the link, can never have too many webcams when it is stormy. Selsey sticks out into the Channel further than Bognor so may catch the weather more, depends which direction the wind comes from. Nice to have a cam facing east and one west too!

One of my daughters is acting reception manager at Bunn Leisure. I'll be phoning her on Monday to make sure all is ok. As you live down that way I'm sure you can appreciate that even on a very windy day the weather can cause havoc down there.

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  • Location: Bognor Regis West Sussex
  • Location: Bognor Regis West Sussex

One of my daughters is acting reception manager at Bunn Leisure. I'll be phoning her on Monday to make sure all is ok. As you live down that way I'm sure you can appreciate that even on a very windy day the weather can cause havoc down there.

It sure can Southernman and Selsey has had more than it's fair share of flooding problems too. I may head that way at low tide after the storms to look for any fossils exposed on the beach. NO not old people I don't mean. Being nearly one I can say that. Posted Image  Now I have to check the location of the cam.

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  • Location: Crewe, Cheshire
  • Weather Preferences: Snow, storms and other extremes
  • Location: Crewe, Cheshire

The new 96 hour FAX is out. The low looks to be 964mb there.

 

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Looks to be a more northerly track there too.

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  • Location: King’s Lynn, Norfolk.
  • Weather Preferences: Hot and Thundery, Cold and Snowy
  • Location: King’s Lynn, Norfolk.

Lets see what this 18z run will have for us. If it becomes a more intense 'bomb' then the alarm bells will be starting to ring!

Early in the run yet, but is it me, or does it look like it is gathering momentum much earlier than projected on previous runs?Posted Image

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  • Location: Newbury, Berkshire. 107m ASL.
  • Weather Preferences: Summer:sunny, some Thunder,Winter:cold & snowy spells,Other:transitional
  • Location: Newbury, Berkshire. 107m ASL.

Looks to be a more northerly track there too.

 

Not that I've seen it but the chart prior to that one (-6 hours) would have taken its path straight through the bulk of Central England, would it not? Posted Image Posted Image

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