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  • Location: Near King's Lynn 13.68m ASL
  • Weather Preferences: Hoar Frost, Snow, Misty Autumn mornings
  • Location: Near King's Lynn 13.68m ASL

It's in Holland now:

 

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  • Location: Cheddington, Buckinghamshire
  • Weather Preferences: Winter: Cold & Snowy, Summer: Just not hot
  • Location: Cheddington, Buckinghamshire

What a cop out this is! So the Met Office won't name a storm if it's named by any other European agencies now??

 

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  • Location: East Lothian
  • Weather Preferences: Not too hot, excitement of snow, a hoolie
  • Location: East Lothian

Nice swerve, after the event. Oh well. In terms of a communication tool, which is the whole idea, the disruption over East Anglia seems uncared for. 

Scenes from Netherlands are crazy

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  • Location: Cheddington, Buckinghamshire
  • Weather Preferences: Winter: Cold & Snowy, Summer: Just not hot
  • Location: Cheddington, Buckinghamshire
2 minutes ago, Jo Farrow said:

Nice swerve, after the event. Oh well. In terms of a communication tool, which is the whole idea, the disruption over East Anglia seems uncared for. 

Scenes from Netherlands are crazy

I think they are admitting it should have been named, but that tweet does not do them any favours.

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  • Location: Newbury
  • Weather Preferences: Sunshine and snow but not together
  • Location: Newbury
On ‎16‎/‎01‎/‎2018 at 11:25, Balanced View said:

Storm force winds across Lincolnshire and Norfolk if this come off. ICON very similar as is UKMET

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Just looking at this seems bang on the money for my area... 58 mph recorded at around 3.30pm highest gust

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  • Location: East Lothian
  • Weather Preferences: Not too hot, excitement of snow, a hoolie
  • Location: East Lothian

That's #Friederike in Germany 125 km/h = 78mph 140km/h would be 87mph

No name, so many names

 

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  • Location: Colchester, Essex, UK (33m ASL)
  • Location: Colchester, Essex, UK (33m ASL)

Tbh, all the European Met offices should come up with an agreed name list they work from, avoids confusion as we see today.

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  • Location: Cheddington, Buckinghamshire
  • Weather Preferences: Winter: Cold & Snowy, Summer: Just not hot
  • Location: Cheddington, Buckinghamshire
3 minutes ago, SnowBear said:

Tbh, all the European Met offices should come up with an agreed name list they work from, avoids confusion as we see today.

I don't think that would work either to be honest, as it's such a large area and would involve too many agencies. At least the Hurricane naming is done by NOAA and nobody else.

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  • Location: Colchester, Essex, UK (33m ASL)
  • Location: Colchester, Essex, UK (33m ASL)
4 minutes ago, Nick L said:

I don't think that would work either to be honest, as it's such a large area and would involve too many agencies. At least the Hurricane naming is done by NOAA and nobody else.

It would work if the agencies wanted it to work. In a couple of hours a set of lists for the next 20 years could be done quite easily and accepted by all. Not that hard to do.

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  • Location: Beccles, Suffolk.
  • Weather Preferences: Thunder, snow, heat, sunshine...
  • Location: Beccles, Suffolk.

Last night's fiasco has reinforced my belief that naming storms is a waste of time...Does it matter whether a storm has a name or not? Does a storm's possession of a name make it any less, or more, severe?

Why bother? It only leads to silly, after the fact, squabbling...:D

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  • Location: Colchester, Essex, UK (33m ASL)
  • Location: Colchester, Essex, UK (33m ASL)
3 minutes ago, Ed Stone said:

Last night's fiasco has reinforced my belief that naming storms is a waste of time...Does it matter whether a storm has a name or not? Does a storm's possession of a name make it any less, or more, severe?

Why bother? It only leads to silly, after the fact, squabbling...:D

Must admit, it is a bit pointless and a waste of time too, we never had problems when they weren't named lol

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  • Location: Norwich
  • Location: Norwich

ARPEGE did well, many days in advance, to consistently pick up the swathe of 80-85mph gusts in Norfolk. Admittedly it stepped back a little during yesterday in its peak wind strengths.

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  • Location: Saltdean,Nr Brighton,East Sussex,Hither Green,SE London.
  • Location: Saltdean,Nr Brighton,East Sussex,Hither Green,SE London.

Flicking through some of the media today on last night's 'unamed' storm it would seem it caused far more devastation across Wales and Southern England than any named storm this Winter.

London being just one example with large oak trees toppled in Greenwich park,railway lines blocked and countless reports of structural damage.

I think most models had a decent hang on this system up to about three days out when 80mph gusts seemed likely,however the Low was modelld to cross Scotland.

The Southward correction coinsided with a weakening of the Low as it crossed the UK,however it managed to 'bomb' on its Southerly path.

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  • Location: Cheddington, Buckinghamshire
  • Weather Preferences: Winter: Cold & Snowy, Summer: Just not hot
  • Location: Cheddington, Buckinghamshire
25 minutes ago, sunnijim said:

Flicking through some of the media today on last night's 'unamed' storm it would seem it caused far more devastation across Wales and Southern England than any named storm this Winter.

London being just one example with large oak trees toppled in Greenwich park,railway lines blocked and countless reports of structural damage.

I think most models had a decent hang on this system up to about three days out when 80mph gusts seemed likely,however the Low was modelld to cross Scotland.

The Southward correction coinsided with a weakening of the Low as it crossed the UK,however it managed to 'bomb' on its Southerly path.

Yep, probably the most damaging storm of the season in southern Britain!

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  • Location: Brongest,Wales
  • Weather Preferences: Stormy autumn, hot and sunny summer and thunderstorms all year round.
  • Location: Brongest,Wales
1 hour ago, sunnijim said:

Flicking through some of the media today on last night's 'unamed' storm it would seem it caused far more devastation across Wales and Southern England than any named storm this Winter.

London being just one example with large oak trees toppled in Greenwich park,railway lines blocked and countless reports of structural damage.

I think most models had a decent hang on this system up to about three days out when 80mph gusts seemed likely,however the Low was modelld to cross Scotland.

The Southward correction coinsided with a weakening of the Low as it crossed the UK,however it managed to 'bomb' on its Southerly path.

It probably did cause the most damage for more eastern and Northern areas of England with many 60-80mph gusts but for us here in the southwest it was the same as the winds we had just after Christmas.

Nothing unusual here as we look to have had 40-50mph gusts. We have already had that level of gusts a few times this Winter, I got 46mph in the garden last night, and had recorded two 47mph gusts a few weeks back from another low pressure system.

However it is clear that the three areas worst effected were southeast england, East Anglier and especially Norfolk were 80mph gusts hit which is pretty powerful compared to the typical peak gusts we get from storms in winter down here of 30-50mph. 

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