South East England & East Anglia Regional Weather Discussion 13/02/14

[rubble79]

The direction the wind is coming from tonight means it's banging right on my windows. It's making some insane noises that I didn't even hear on the Christmas storm or October one. Can be a little unnerving.

 

Bins are littering the road now but no other damage visible.

[Snowangel-MK]

Well it's not calmed down here, in fact I would say it's getting worse - the last few minutes there has been a roar and a whoosh to the wind that I've never heard inland before...ever !

[Jax]

wind is roaring here now

[exodus]

loads of the Easyjet flights seem to be trying to land at Gatwick, failing then heading up to Liverpool. Feel sorry for the guys on board!

[lassie23]

Huge gust of wind just broke my argos weather station. Insurance job, cost me £5.99p

[Brassmonkeylily]

loads of the Easyjet flights seem to be trying to land at Gatwick, failing then heading up to Liverpool. Feel sorry for the guys on board!

so it is not an airport anymore …!!

[Summer of 76]

Well it's not calmed down here, in fact I would say it's getting worse - the last few minutes there has been a roar and a whoosh to the wind that I've never heard inland before...ever !

Same here plus a power dip ten minutes ago

[yamkin]

Yamps, come on, don't be daft. Needles is a wild exposed place. We could all predict 100 mph during these type of storms and then say 'told you so' based on the Needles, the Scilly Iles, Lundy island, etc, whether there is extra 'energy' or not. It really doesn't help anyone, I think, to post such wild projections and then pick somewhere miles away from most on this and any other thread and then try to justify your forecast, particularly as you often back it up with apparent local council warnings/predictions. Surely you can see that some on here have been unnerved by predictions today? Even more reason to be balanced I would have thought?Winds have, just a touch, calmed down here in the last 30 mins though it is still quite livelyAS

 

AS, I do not always predict all wind gusts. The light house is not miles away from my projection. It is part of the storm system in the S/SE quadrant. Not trying to justify anything. The Council warnings/predictions come directly from me. 

 

Anyway, time for me to say bye for now and wish you all peace and blessings.

 

Take care everyone

 

Yamkin

[Dipsy]

loads of the Easyjet flights seem to be trying to land at Gatwick, failing then heading up to Liverpool. Feel sorry for the guys on board!

yes, last time that happened at Christmas they got told to make their own way home from Liverpool apparently!

[Chloe]

Just looked out and no idea what the bang was but my garden has be re-arranged and I have extra stuff ( but also seem to be missing stuff too)

my shed door isn't in your garden is it?

[john pike]

http://m.bbc.co.uk/travelnews/londonandsoutheast

 

if out tomorrow morning

 

got a feeling you may need this

[mackerel sky]

No one can tell me that wind is dying down... it's starting to unnerve me now.

[Bluebreezer54]

109 MPH ALERT: Huge 109mph wind gust at Needles Lighthouse - Courtesy Of MetDesk

 

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Hi Yamkin. I had a feeling this would come back to haunt me !!

 

The Needles Lighthouse is hardly typical of the whole South East though is it ?.. and it has recorded gusts in excess of 100mph a number of times this winter so nothing out of the ordinary really. I grant you it's pretty damn windy tonight, but The Needles Lighthouse apart  ( it's not even in the South East ), I am struggling to see any reports of wind gusts much above 80mph even along the South East Coast, and 50-60mph further inland. That's more or less spot on with the Met Office forecast.

 

I'll be the first person to hold my hands up and admit I am wrong, but I think you are clutching at straws mate.

[chillyblast]

so it is not an airport anymore …!!

Near St Neots here power fine ATM but wind seems to have dropped for now a bit

[loopydreamer]

Woah.... theres been some intense gusts here in the last 15 minutes

[Jax]

Bloody hell! just been to the back of the house and seeing some meaty gusts of wind now

[daggerdanny]

windy but nothing spectacular here.  recorded a couple of 40mph gusts a while ago on a hand held but as I say nothing major.

[80sWeather]

loads of the Easyjet flights seem to be trying to land at Gatwick, failing then heading up to Liverpool. Feel sorry for the guys on board!

Liverpool ain't that bad surely.

Christ getting wild now, things crashing about outside, and the wheelie bin F1 has started

Edited February 15, 2014 by 80sWeather

[Hammer]

It's fantastic that the moon is bright and momentarily out then covered, then out again. Causing quite a fascinating light show in garden.

Great evening and winter of weather. Albeit I want people to stay safe.

[Jason T]

Those saying it has peaked because it's calmed down where they are for maybe 10/15 minutes are, sadly, not right, as it is yet to reach it's peak, and here, the winds are actually increasing again.

 

 

 90ft

[Dipsy]

57.6mph recorded at Reigate Grammar School. Slowly increasing.

Is that from their weather station as I can't see higher than 43mph, but it has got up again in the last few minutes.?Boy cat abandoned attempts to leave house and is now on the sofa with me and girl cat.

[NO LONGER POSTING]

Damn.. Mother nature she angry!

[Jax]

 

 90ft

I can hear the hawai 5 o music

[Iceni]

It is onionse out there for garden panels right now, I had to get three of mine replaced last year and two posts fixed as well

 

 

Don't want to sound smug but my hedge is fine.

[rich1974]

It's fantastic that the moon is bright and momentarily out then covered, then out again. Causing quite a fascinating light show in garden.Great evening and winter of weather. Albeit I want people to stay safe.

Thing is when the moon appears you see the damage, next time it pops out here i'll be minus another fence panel.