Severe Atlantic storms 8-10th January

[BurntFishTrousers]

The record is 913mb for North Atlantic

[Mokidugway]

Err , hang on we've not finnished with this one yet ...

[Boro Snow]

http://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/isobaric/1000hPa/orthographic=14.17,54.35,1216

[Mokidugway]

The record is 913mb for North Atlantic

not a day to be out in a row boat ...

[Richie V]

97 mph on xc now in nw scotland

[aggy]

Winds shifted west in a second along came a rain band and power washed all the cars . Alarms went off was for those few minutes like watching tv footage of hurricane

[Snowshine]

The Met Office weather warnings are not widespread enough, because areas such as Wales, Northern England and Central England are already getting gusts at around 60mph. Scotland are nearly at 100mph (currently 97).

[alexisj9]

The Met Office weather warnings are not widespread enough, because areas such as Wales, Northern England and Central England are already getting gusts at around 60mph. Scotland are nearly at 100mph (currently 97).

If they think it's warranted they will probably put some flash warnings up.

[Polarlow]

Sounds like a nightmare on the Scotland regional thread !

[rossco89]

126mph on the high ground already. I just attempted to lock the old coal house door which has blown open, but I cant move from the doorstep, wind is far too strong to stand in here.

[Insert Name Here]

Pounding here now. Fierce

[stevofunnelcl]

i took a look at latest sat, concerned for Orkney

 

centre really wrapped up, looks like passing to the north, with that nasty hook wrap around destined for Orkney

[The PIT]

Downgrade for Saturday on the last run much shorter duration and much less windy although it will still be nasty.

[Liam J]

Exceptional wind strengths being felt across N/NE Scotland with gusts of 70-100mph, just seen a tweet from BBC Weather Stornoway recorded 113mph gust strongest for this location since records began in 1970!! Must be chaos up there atm hope everyone is ok, I would delay all travel plans this morning in the far north - very dangerous situation. It was windy enough here through the night with gusts hitting 65mph, the mean speeds have been higher than this in parts of Scotland!! The strongest of the winds should be out of the way by around 9am http://www.xcweather.co.uk/

Edited January 9, 2015 by Liam J

[Liam J]

Then a brief lull before the next batch of wet & very windy weather moves in later today with stronger winds affecting areas further south this time, the wind at this stage doesn't look to be as severe across N Scotland but still the N Isles could experience gusts around 80mph or so. 60-70mph across Ireland, S Scotland and N England. 

 

 

Attention then turns to next week with the prospect of more stormy weather, Especially round the 15th, this has been shown on many runs now.

 

Good ensemble support. http://www.meteociel.fr/cartes_obs/gens_panel.php?modele=0&mode=1&ech=150

 

UKMO

 

Edited January 9, 2015 by Liam J

[BurntFishTrousers]

Of course this didn't constitute a red warning.

"All rail services in Scotland have been suspended until at least 10:00 as a storm caused gusts of more than 100mph (160km/h) to hit the country.

About 70,000 homes have been left without power in the Highlands and Islands as the Atlantic jet stream brought down trees and caused damage."

[Insert Name Here]

If they ever do issue a red for Scotland I think I'll be running for the cellar straight away.

[snow..chance]

Stay safe guys and gals!

[OddSpot]

Just an observation. At present, the aircraft caught up in this jet stream which are flying eastwards, are doing close on, or well above 700 mph, whereas the aircraft flying west are doing around 300 mph

 

Just looked on flightradar

Edited January 9, 2015 by OddSpot

[mardatha]

Still have power here, amazing lol. I was lying listening to a plane circling round and round quite low, husband said thats the wind but I said no it's a plane. Then read on the Scottish forum it was a plane and it got down ok.That worried me more than the wind lol

[Zenarcher]

Just had a look at some of the weather stations across the West and North of Scotland these are some of the top gusts recorded. Please note some of them are not Met Office stations.

 

Aonach Mor (High Grounds) 117mph 12.15am

Stornoway 113mph 5.00am

Isle of Barra 112mph 3.30am

Butt of Lewis 108mph 5.30am

Lochboisdale 108mph 3.30am

Waterstein 103mph 12.15am

Strathy Point 103mph 6.35am

Aird Uig 98mph 3.00am

Altnaharra 97mph 5.15am

Kirkwall 96mph 5.30am

Wick 93mph 6.15am

North Rona Isle 91mph 6.30am

Benbecula Airport 81mph 1.15am

Tiree 81mph 6.30am

Orsay 68mph 12.30am

[shetland islands]

Just spoken to a friend in Orkney and she said it wasn't too bad, very windy but with little damage. Power out in places and a few trees and lamp posts down. Just goes to show how resilient the highlands and islands are when it comes to significant storms.

[P-M]

Winds cross the border look like they've been severe in places!   It was howling here last night really loud night and we are no where near the main event really.  Local  news saying the Military Road in Northumberland recorded 70mps gusts here and Carlisle Racecourse suffered some damage - mainly a wall collapsing.  So all in all a very interesting period of weather.  It's the next best thing when your'e craving cold and snow and don't get any!

 

I hope the people affected by power cuts manage to get sorted soon!

[Woollymummy]

According to that great nullschool live windspeed animated globe, Scotland has the strongest winds in the world just now, is that true?

[Liam J]

Some damage around my area as well, roof blown off Carlisle racecourse.