Waves could reach 50ft as 70mph winds hit Britain.

[Hellcat]

I just got back from chichester Harbour today, they are all panicking a bit there, half the sailing clubs and activity centres have stopped going out

be about 6 times faster surly

Er no

Over 40kts wind and it's more survival than racing.

 

[Focus Owner]

Er no

Over 40kts wind and it's more survival than racing.

just not skilled

 

[jip0]

have people started 'panic buying' yet

 

[GrandeGuy]

Very strange day today . . it's been 20deg with a lovely warm wind, but things are starting to get out of hand
don't know the speed of wind but I've tied the bins down and move'd all loose stuff in the yard. I live 2mile's north east and 3miles south east from the Irish sea so think i might be getting batter'd quite bad

In fact just searched now and we are getting winds from the south, of 44mph, that was @ 12:55am recorded at St Bees Head weather station, (closest to us).

 

[Kier]

Pissing it down here in Poole! Hopefully we won't get any of the floods like last month!

 

[ChrisUK]

Well I'm in the sunny north east and all is calm!. Not a whisper of wind.

 

[Hellcat]

Quite windy here in the sunny north-(more) east

 

[RuSZ]

all is fine in (West) Yorkshire.. nice and sunny with a slight cooling breeze

"East Moor" our nearest weather station is showing 15mph gusts from SSW and 13.2degrees

 

[sludgeguts]

Doesn't bother me, being hundreds of miles away from the sea
But I do suffer badly with the wind though.

 

[jip0]

its getting a bit windy hear (south east) nothing major though

 

[udtrev]

I went up on the south downs today, from about 2ish onwards the wind was strongly gusting

sorry to say I was not blown away

 

[dave]

its getting a bit windy hear (south east) nothing major though

will my marquee blow away?

 

[jip0]

will my marquee blow away?

doubt it not with everything you have in it

are you back from skeggy yet?

 

[dave]

yeah i back

 

[jip0]

yeah i back

ah i was gonna say ill pop over and tie it down if your worried haha

 

[ChrisUK]

Little breezy here now but nothing bad.

 

[Kier]

Rather windy on the way home from duty, made it really hard to see with the rain! Not too bad at home though. Little bit windy and light rain.

 

[RuSZ]

Started raining in Huddersfield, not much wind, well not much more than normal.

The thing thats starting to **** me off about this storm is people and newspapers calling it a hurricane...

It was a hurricane, now its a storm.. we geographically cant get hurricanes in the United Kingdom... The term "Hurricane" only refers to a "Tropical Cyclone"

The water here isnt warm enough to sustain the thermal flows a hurricane requires.. hence why the speed of the wind is slower than that as it was in NY.

To quote a famous weatherman...

a woman rang the BBC and said she heard there was a hurricane on the way; well, if you're watching, don't worry, there isn't, but having said that, actually, the weather will become very windy

 

[Shadeyman]

Well its not reached Wolverhampton. Dull with 20 to 30 mph winds.

Boring, was hoping to see a few roof tiles blow off atleast. :devil:

 

[Hellcat]

Started raining in Huddersfield, not much wind, well not much more than normal.

The thing thats starting to **** me off about this storm is people and newspapers calling it a hurricane...

It was a hurricane, now its a storm.. we geographically cant get hurricanes in the United Kingdom... The term "Hurricane" only refers to a "Tropical Cyclone"

The water here isnt warm enough to sustain the thermal flows a hurricane requires.. hence why the speed of the wind is slower than that as it was in NY.

To quote a famous weatherman...

from the NHC..

term used in advisories and tropical summaries to indicate that a cyclone has lost its "tropical" characteristics. The term implies both poleward displacement of the cyclone and the conversion of the cyclone's primary energy source from the release of latent heat of condensation to baroclinic (the temperature contrast between warm and cold air masses) processes. It is important to note that cyclones can become extratropical and still retain winds of hurricane or tropical storm force.