Storm Doris - Atlantic Storm 4

[chrisbell-nottheweatherman]

9 minutes ago, JennyJane1 said:

Double decker bus blown over at Wisbech, several hurt, one taken to hospital with head injury.

One wonders as to the wisdom of running them on north-south routes in weather like this.

[Paul]

This is a close call - go to about 25 seconds in.

 

[Delka]

2 minutes ago, chrisbell-nottheweatherman said:

One wonders as to the wisdom of running them on north-south routes in weather like this.

That area is very exposed on the routes they run them buses along especially towards Lynn, I would have thought they would stop running double deckerd today.. 

[toggerob]

Just catching up with the latest, winds finally subsided here past midday and it was a quick transition from the 70mph gusts back down to less damaging 30mph gusts. Overheard a few pilots chatting with the Manchester approach-controller talking about what kind of weather was going on and I think out of the 7 holding at the time 3 choose alternate airfields given the 45kt slight-crosswind component.

Lincolnshire and Norfolk now getting their fair-share of the gusts but thankfully for everyone the worst of the winds will be gone and out across the southern North Sea by early evening.

[matty40s]

11 minutes ago, chillyblast said:

So is this it for the storms in the visible forecasting future or is there another one roaring in off the atlantic like a couple of years ago? hopefully not!

Saturday, although not as strong, them 3rd March according to GFS

[cheese]

8 minutes ago, Paul said:

This is a close call - go to about 25 seconds in.

 

Poor pigeons. :-(

[chillyblast]

2 minutes ago, matty40s said:

Saturday, although not as strong, them 3rd March according to GFS

Joy - its starting to get like an extremely watered down version of hurricane alley in the south almost every year, need to swap the fence panels for titanium panels.

[Frosty hollows]

Still very blowy here, but worst of it seems to be over for now. Probably strongest winds since the Valentine's day storm in 2014

[matt111]

Just been out for a walk and it's still windy but not as bad as earlier. Lots of branches fallen from the trees but nothing much otherwise. 

[johnholmes]

1 hour ago, Nick L said:

I did apply for a job on Shetland once

I did work there for 12 months, loved it

[chrisbell-nottheweatherman]

2 hours ago, Nick F said:

81 mph gust at Weybourne in Norfolk, unusually strong gusts for this far south

 

I don't lnow whether you know Weybourne and the surrounding district, but it is quite exposed, being on some higher ground on the inland edge of the coastal low-lying marshes and beaches.

[chrisbell-nottheweatherman]

Am I seeing squall lines in the ppn. on Netweather radar?

[Delka]

We had a gust of 73mph before it calmed slightly, gusting up to 55mph still though

[Mapantz]

12 minutes ago, chrisbell-nottheweatherman said:

Am I seeing squall lines in the ppn. on Netweather radar?

I think they're just aligned bands of showers, Chris.

[chrisbell-nottheweatherman]

2 minutes ago, Mapantz said:

I think they're just aligned bands of showers, Chris.

Not wishing to sound sarcastic, as I don't intend it as such, but isn't that pretty much the same thing?

[Summer Sun]

 

[Summer Sun]

Doris is now clearing out to sea winds will continue to ease from the west during this evening

[Mapantz]

2 minutes ago, chrisbell-nottheweatherman said:

Not wishing to sound sarcastic, as I don't intend it as such, but isn't that pretty much the same thing?

A squall line would be associated with a vigorous cold front. The bands of showers are just part of Doris' circulation - possibly a trough.

[chrisbell-nottheweatherman]

Just now, Mapantz said:

A squall line would be associated with a vigorous cold front. The bands of showers are just part of Doris' circulation - possibly a trough.

Good point - thanks.  I seem to recall a trough was indicated on this morning's FAX chart.

[Jo Farrow]

23 minutes ago, chrisbell-nottheweatherman said:

Am I seeing squall lines in the ppn. on Netweather radar?

They are just showers lining up in the flow. Gusty showers often get described as squally, like windy weather is called stormy. 

Squall

(SQ) A squall is differentiated from a gust by its greater duration: generally lasting for several minutes before decaying again. Squalls are often associated with the passage of fronts, particularly cold fronts, or well defined troughs, or with the 'gust front' from a well defined/mature supercell Cb. To qualify as a line squall, other marked changes are often observed, e.g. change of wind direction, fall of temperature etc. The following definition is used when estimating wind speeds using the Beaufort scale of wind speed: ".... a sudden increase of wind speed by at least three levels of the Beaufort scale, the speed rising to F6 or more and lasting for at least one minute."

[Jo Farrow]

2 minutes ago, chrisbell-nottheweatherman said:

Good point - thanks.  I seem to recall a trough was indicated on this morning's FAX chart.

 

[toggerob]

The overturned double-decker bus at Wisbech this afternoon, Fifteen people were treated at the scene and 11 taken to hospital with minor injuries.

 

Edited February 23, 2017 by SNOW_JOKE

[Cheshire Freeze]

Well an interesting walk to work earlier. Debris everywhere, bins blown over, loads of garden fences completely blown down, bits of roof flying off... The doctors had to close for that reason. Trees down also. Wild. 

[chrisbell-nottheweatherman]

2 minutes ago, SNOW_JOKE said:

The overturned double-decker bus at Wisbech this afternoon, Fifteen people were treated at the scene and 11 taken to hospital with minor injuries.

 

Thank goodness there were no fatalities or critcal injuries.

[Summer Sun]

Given the weather, this was a good landing