South West and Central Southern England Regional Weather Discussion 23/04/17 onwards

[*Stormforce~beka*]

Our nearest is Southampton. Open to anywhere 1 hour from here. I'm actually going to take Jess to Portsmouth on Tuesday to go to the sealife centre as Sophie is at nursery. It will be our first day together ever since Sophie was born.

[Polar Bear]

5 minutes ago, Chief Wiggam said:

Gusting F8 in the Solent but nothing exceptional so far... #overhyped? 

Yep been like that for a while. Bognor looking glorious ... seen many a days like this..

http://www.bognorregisbeach.co.uk/live

 

[*Stormforce~beka*]

6 minutes ago, Chief Wiggam said:

Gusting F8 in the Solent but nothing exceptional so far... #overhyped? 

Shows worst between 1&6pm here

[Polar Bear]

4 minutes ago, *Stormforce~beka* said:

Our nearest is Southampton. Open to anywhere 1 hour from here. I'm actually going to take Jess to Portsmouth on Tuesday to go to the sealife centre as Sophie is at nursery. It will be our first day together ever since Sophie was born.

Southsea is cool.. or you could go the other side to Milford on Sea.. 

[Polar Bear]

20 minutes ago, Polar Bear said:

Yep been like that for a while. Bognor looking glorious ... seen many a days like this..

http://www.bognorregisbeach.co.uk/live

 

And there’s a few surfers out there at the mo you can se having a great time!! 

[coldfingers1]

1 hour ago, Polar Bear said:

And there’s a few surfers out there at the mo you can se having a great time!! 

Hi Polar bear, just passing High tide now in Bognor but really gusty as the web cam tell you if you put sound on. Saw one idiot standing right at the edge of the shingle, saw the wave was bigger than expected, tried to run backwards, fell flat on his back and got covered by the surf. One lucky man not to be dragged into the sea. I bet he wont do that again as it will have been a cold and soggy walk to somewhere he could dry off. Wind chill wouldn't have made it comfortable for him.

Edited October 21, 2017 by coldfingers1

[coldfingers1]

Chimet just showed F8 gusting F10. Must have been quite a squall as we are only forecast F9 gusts.

http://www.chimet.co.uk/(S(5hlg5yrtingfr445kbfuavmk))/Default.aspx

Just had gust of 49.8 knots- 57.3mph.

Edited October 21, 2017 by coldfingers1

[lettice]

Where is this storm?
its not rained since about 9am and we have blue skies with little sign of any rain clouds.
Wind is 15-25mph, with a few 33mph gusts for last few hours

 

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[Polar Bear]

37 minutes ago, coldfingers1 said:

Hi Polar bear, just passing High tide now in Bognor but really gusty as the web cam tell you if you put sound on. Saw one idiot standing right at the edge of the shingle, saw the wave was bigger than expected, tried to run backwards, fell flat on his back and got covered by the surf. One lucky man not to be dragged into the sea. I bet he wont do that again as it will have been a cold and soggy walk to somewhere he could dry off. Wind chill wouldn't have made it comfortable for him.

Hello cold fingers, yes I saw that person too (fool), and yes definitely a lot more angry sky and waves... surfers aren't out now either. 

[Polar Bear]

35 minutes ago, coldfingers1 said:

Chimet just showed F8 gusting F10. Must have been quite a squall as we are only forecast F9 gusts.

http://www.chimet.co.uk/(S(5hlg5yrtingfr445kbfuavmk))/Default.aspx

Just had gust of 49.8 knots- 57.3mph.

Chichester harbour (cambernet) gusting to Force 8 now... so that is quite a breeze as quite sheltered as more inland... I've been caught on the mudflats once years ago in a force 8 at thorney... it ain't funny.. 

Edited October 21, 2017 by Polar Bear

[Polar Bear]

Something is going on at Bognor beach Air Sea Rescue helicopter on the webcam..... people on beach watching and pointing out to sea

Edited October 21, 2017 by Polar Bear

[Polar Bear]

Yep go to bognor beach cam there is an Air Sea Rescue going on.... you can see it and people on beach watching http://www.bognorregisbeach.co.uk/live

 

Edited October 21, 2017 by Polar Bear

[Laurence Hill]

Great beach cam, one of the best I’ve seen.

[knocker]

No guessing where Brian is at the moment

 

[Polar Bear]

12 minutes ago, Sharpedge said:

Great beach cam, one of the best I’ve seen.

Helicopter back again.. it’s Selsea Coastguard. Twitter said they would be doing patrols so maybe this is what it is. Sea seems to be settling down a little 

[Mapantz]

Just manged 46mph, and a 23mph wind speed during a shower.

[Mapantz]

New record for me! Wind speed of 24mph.

[Ciderwithrosie]

Well that gust shook the house ....exciting ! 

[coldfingers1]

57 minutes ago, Polar Bear said:

Helicopter back again.. it’s Selsea Coastguard. Twitter said they would be doing patrols so maybe this is what it is. Sea seems to be settling down a little 

Heard on twitter Littlehampton lifeboat is out and they reckon Shoreham one too! Hopefully not a kid, adults never have my sympathy when they do something dangerous but kids do, can't blame them so much for not being sensible.

https://twitter.com/LhamptonRNLI

Edited October 21, 2017 by coldfingers1

[Polar Bear]

Force 10 gusts have now been reported out in the Solent.. http://www.chimet.co.uk/(S(bntw1hmtv5m5l2az5fczw255))/Default.aspx

[Dorsetbred]

Interesting the IOW has reported some of the strongest winds, and yet down here it's been a "breeze", OK so the occasional gust, but overall nothing more unusual that any Autumn low that crawls through.. No tree damage, no fence damage, the only thing we see are the remaining leaves from the trees spread on the nearby areas..'Brian' with no balls down here..

 

 

Edited October 21, 2017 by Dorsetbred

[lettice]

Much the same here, winds have been 18-25mph through the day but only gusts of 30-35mph.
Its been a generally blue sky day with some light grey cloud cover passing over quickly a few times.
But its been mostly dry with just a few passing drizzly showers.

Its 12.7c now and wind has dropped last hour to 18mph winds with only 25 mph gusts.

[knocker]

A very grotty few hours here from around 1500 with moderate rain and frequent gusts around 50mph. Hopefully it's uphill from here on in

[Ciderwithrosie]

Still lovely and grotty intermittently here this evening . 

[wimblettben]

One max gust of 37mph here at some point in the afternoon with mostly 30mph gusts throughout.

It was a nice windy day with some sunshine at times and with your typical windy day level winds we get throughout autumn.

I was expecting it to be stronger to be honest with a named storm coming in with max gusts of Force 8 to 9 rather then the Force 6 to 7 we got.