Severe Atlantic Storms Over The Christmas Period #2

[knightrider]

Starting to pick up more here now gusting 35-40mph and rain beginning to get heavier!

[Fitzwis]

Our local forecast makes humble reading:

 

METEOROLOGICAL DEPARTMENT

 

Forecast for Jersey from noon today Monday 23 December 2013 until 6am tomorrow.

Weather :   Rain, becoming persistent and locally heavy, clearing before dawn to scattered showers.

Max :  12 °C Min :  8 °C UV Index : 1

Visibility :  Moderate to poor in rain, becoming good after midnight.

Wind :   South to southwest strong F7 to severe gale F9 with gusts to 60mph, increasing gale F8 to severe gale F9, locally storm F10 with gusts to 80mph, moderating after midnight.

Open Sea State :  Rough to very rough.

Forecast from 6am until 6pm tomorrow Tuesday.

Weather :   Fair periods and scattered showers.

Max : 10 °C

Wind :  Southwest to west strong F6 to gale F8, decreasing fresh F5 to strong F6 around midday

 

Also, they have issued a tide warning for our high tide at 10:47pm which incidentally is a mere 29ft although I am aware that with such strong winds progged for between 9pm and 1am tonight coupled with low pressure this could be considerably higher. Stay safe everyone

[Pennine Ten Foot Drifts]

Yeah me too, let me know if it gets any worse please :-) (in Hudd'fld)

 

I'm hoping we've hit the peak here now as I believe it's supposed to ease down a bit in the next few hours. Mind you, tomorrow morning looks potentially as bad if not worse, and then there's Friday.................

[Barbmac]

Well, this looks pretty stormy - live webcam on Langland Bay, the Gower. No surfers today!

 

http://www.gowerlive.co.uk/webcams/langland-webcam

[fluid dynamic]

Everyone who is reporting the incredible drops in pressure are forgetting about something, when you talk about a storm dropping 24mb in 24 hours they are talking about the centre of the low.

Everyone is measuring the pressure dropping from there stationary point which of course will drop faster because not only is the storm deepening but the lows centre is also moving closer so you will always get a much increased drop in pressure on top of a already bombing low.

 

exactly

[philglossop]

Absolutely vicious outside here- as much as my house is sheltered- the wind is literally howling outside- and I think it's going to get worse yet.

 

Thank goodness I caught an early train from Penzance this morning- dread to think what it's like down there now it was bad enough at 7am!

[benb]

Looking forward to the 27th...

 

I know Magic Seaweed like their dramatic graphics, but I've gotta say I think that's the biggest swell forecast in to the SW approaches I've ever seen- that would bring absolutely colossal waves to the coastline around here.

 

 

The November storm topped out at about 30ft on the Pembroke Buoy (biggest I've seen); this would likely top that, if the forecast stays the same...  

Edited December 23, 2013 by benb

[gottolovethisweather]

Sure is a wet United Kingdom bar Ireland (both Northern and the Republic) and parts of the East right now, but yours is yet to come. What a horrid day to be on the roads.

 

[Cyclonic]

rain hammering it down, recorded gust of 41mph, 2 power cuts and still half of sandown without power

[Coast]

Latest satellite shots and obs are not pretty:

 

 

 

 

The red area in the Bay of Biscay is my main current concern as that looks like it's on it's way to us in The South:

 

Edited December 23, 2013 by Coast

[Skullzrulerz]

Latest satellite shots and obs are not pretty:

 

 

 

 

The red area in the Bay of Biscay is my main current concern as that looks like it's on it's way to us in The South:

 

Red Area? Cant see it?

[The PIT]

meanwhile in Sunny Sheffield the shelter from the south is doing the business. Tomorrow will be a different Kettle of fish

[toggerob]

How in the heck with a wind-gradient that's expected, has the NW England missed out on either the rains and wind? certainly when factoring heights and the fact many cross-country routes (north to south, east to west) are in these parts it just boggles my mind to think the MetO isn't expecting much. Its already blowing close to 40mph and that's before the low gradient has even gotten here.

[Cold Winter]

Met Office warnings updated yet again to bring the yellow warning for wind further south tomorrow to a line roughly from Hull to North Wales. Amber warning issued for coastal fringes of western Scotland.

 

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/warnings/#?tab=map&regionName=yh&fcTime=1387843200&map=Warnings&zoom=5&lon=-3.50&lat=55.50

Edited December 23, 2013 by Cold Winter

[gottolovethisweather]

Latest satellite shots and obs are not pretty:

 

 

 

 

The red area in the Bay of Biscay is my main current concern as that looks like it's on it's way to us in The South:

 

 

I'm imagining the Cold Front you show on the first image is the likely culprit for tonight's increase in windspeeds too. A nasty feature which the powers that be will be watching intently.

[island lad]

rain hammering it down, recorded gust of 41mph, 2 power cuts and still half of sandown without power

rain still not that bad in arreton valley but wind really picking up over last hour. Where are you located ?

[Coast]

Red Area? Cant see it?

 

[Cyclonic]

rain still not that bad in arreton valley but wind really picking up over last hour. Where are you located ?

Im sandown, pretty much on the seafront

[Pennine Ten Foot Drifts]

How in the heck with a wind-gradient that's expected, has the NW England missed out on either the rains and wind? certainly when factoring heights and the fact many cross-country routes (north to south, east to west) are in these parts it just boggles my mind to think the MetO isn't expecting much. Its already blowing close to 40mph and that's before the low gradient has even gotten here.

 

Never mind 40-50, I've just recorded a 72.6 mph gust, and my weather station if anything tends to under-report

[Skullzrulerz]

ft-l.jpg

thanks.

[The PIT]

Latest GFS has it missing us tomorrow just on the very edge. Looking like we're sitting on the sidelines for this one.

[Chris K]

ft-l.jpg

 

Yea looks like that will be the batch due to head in from the S/SW later this evening with some squall like features included..

[knightrider]

Looking in more detail at the Amber wind warning for London & SE it appears anywhere west of the Docklands/Canary Wharf area is in the Yellow category but we are extreme NE greater London and are just within the Amber area, here's hoping that the worst of it stays just to the south and east of us! 

[Chris.R]

wind is very strong here and raining hard. Pressure is 979.8 mBar, the lowest of the season.

[Typhoon Turner]

my barometer 982hpa...