The Midlands Regional Weather Discussion 26/10/13 16z----->

[marksp]

really rough out there at moment, Been in the Peak District most of morning and quite dangerous.

high winds, debris all over the roads, trees down, wheelie bins flying, and lots of fence panels, and sheds.

 

take care.

[Laurie61]

Impressive squall came through here at around 13:20, small branches all over the roads and 40/50 mph winds. Temp dropped from 11C to 8.6C in the last hour.  

[Bishop Brennan]

I guess it's hats off to Shefali Oza!

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/wm/coleshill_latest_weather.html

 

I don't understand why certain posters dislike poor old Shefali so much? Genuinely baffling.

 

Bish

[syed2878]

very windy here had heavy birsts of rain earllyer on. Rain stopt now but the winds remain.

[LadyEv06]

Wind is my least favourite weather, hoping we're nearly through the worst locally. I have fence panels down and many friends have lost trampolines! Just checked meto and it now says light snow showers for my area at midnight. Certainly didn't say that earlier!

[snefnug]

Sorry Midlands Regional - just a question for mods - has the Welsh Regional discussion been blown away?  Can't seem to access it.

 

We had howling gale when it passed through Glyn Ceiriog (Shropshire Wrexham borders) with driving hail and rain, then it went beautifully blue and now that slightly yellowy coloured grey that might, hopefully, betoke a leetle bit of snow.

[TonyH]

Wales thread worked for me after swept the cobwebs off it!

[TonyH]

Sadly a man killed in Notts by a tree as he passed through a park in Retford:

http://www.lincolnshireecho.co.uk/Man-killed-wind-blows-tree-park/story-20266740-detail/story.html

[Bishop Brennan]

Some impressive showers starting to move through the region from the north west right now.

 

Bish

[TonyH]

Some impressive showers starting to move through the region from the north west right now.

 

Bish

See if they have the legs to get to Brum

[WillinGlossop]

really rough out there at moment, Been in the Peak District most of morning and quite dangerous.high winds, debris all over the roads, trees down, wheelie bins flying, and lots of fence panels, and sheds. take care.

Worst gusts seemed to be when front cleared..... Road near me was a river for ten minutes..... Road was full of rubbish bins further down into glossop.... Nerly lot a few fence panels but managed to get them secured but they were really bending over.... Was quite ferocious...

[I remember Atlantic 252]

Not my sort of weather this, find it crap, I know typical autumn/early Dec but still crap! bring on the high pressure from Monday, cannot believe bbc going for 11C on monday

 

i remember thurs 6th Dec last year was very similar to today

[cyclonic happiness]

We've had rather alot of damage today, but the main talking point for everyone around here was the cloud iridescence!

 

It has to have been the most beautiful, and biggest display I've ever seen, even in books!

 

At one point 1/5 of the sky was pearlescent with brighter rainbows mixed in. 

 

I couldn't care less about anything else today, I feel privileged to have been able to witness this display which lasted for well over an hour  just after the cold front had moved through.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The photos don't do it justice but hopefully someone will have got better

[conor123]

Almost all fence panels blown down today, incredibly windy day with frequent gale force gusts, calming down however now and thus begins potentially two weeks of no sunshine!

[I remember Atlantic 252]

Almost all fence panels blown down today, incredibly windy day with frequent gale force gusts, calming down however now and thus begins potentially two weeks of no sunshine!

 

just hope the high can be modelled a bit further north, to allow clear skies to move in from the SE, but likely this will be a cloudy high

[Polar Maritime]

Light/mod snow falling here now.

[I remember Atlantic 252]

Quite a wet morning I feel tomorrow, but hopefully the last of the rain for maybe 2 weeks

[LadyEv06]

We've had rather alot of damage today, but the main talking point for everyone around here was the cloud iridescence!

 

It has to have been the most beautiful, and biggest display I've ever seen, even in books!

 

At one point 1/5 of the sky was pearlescent with brighter rainbows mixed in. 

 

I couldn't care less about anything else today, I feel privileged to have been able to witness this display which lasted for well over an hour  just after the cold front had moved through.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The photos don't do it justice but hopefully someone will have got better

stunning!

Wonder if we'll wake to a light covering of snow tomorrow, meto still forecasting snow showers for my area.

[marksp]

think we will have some snow here overnight, temps falling still and heavy showers heading in on brick NW.

 

bit of wild day here all told, trees down everywhere, temps now at 1.9.

 

[Gord]

Just took a look outside. No frost, temps around 3c. Thinking back to the BBC forecasts at the start of the week with the mass of northerly wind arrows and the words 'arctic blast'. A good lesson in how quickly things can change. It's not really much different to previous mornings out there. Less cloud maybe.

[Terminal Moraine]

A thin covering of snow here this morning; haven't been out to measure it yet but there looks to be about 0.5 cm.

[WillinGlossop]

Hills are white around here.....snow shower incoming.....not laid here but very wet ground....temp 1c dew -2c.....

[Polar Maritime]

Yes TM, a nice dusting of snow this morning. Temp 0.8c.

[conor123]

Stayed up at 4c here overnight in the end, looks like an exciting time to be in Central/Eastern Europe right now.

[Bishop Brennan]

Not even a frost here this morning, slightly surprisingly. Currently 3.1C after an overnight low of 1.6C

 

Bish