Decent gale in Exeter earlier this morning with a gust of 53KT.

Looking increasingly interesting for late Monday with a polar low or similar
likely to affect the SW http://www.weather.org.uk/charts/UKCpf072.gif

Jon (tropical east Devon)

"Jon O'Rourke" wrote in message
...
Decent gale in Exeter earlier this morning with a gust of 53KT.

Looking increasingly interesting for late Monday with a polar low or
similar
likely to affect the SW http://www.weather.org.uk/charts/UKCpf072.gif

Jon (tropical east Devon)


Neighbours garden seat (steel frame, canvas awning etc) jumped a 6 foot
fence into our garden overnight ... its now laying on its back in the middle
of the grass waiting to be retrieved.
Not the usual goings on for Chigwell I must say

Geoff

It was howling a hooley here last night. The wind was gusting between 45 and
50 mph from 01:30 to 4:00 with mean wind speeds of between 25 and 30 mph .
For this reasonably sheltered location, that's quite windy and the windiest
it has been since I moved here in May 2006.

What a mess this morning in the garden; table and chairs blown over, along
with pots, bits of tree on the lawn and the usual recycling box and bins all
over the place.

Currently (09:00), 8.6C, RH 73%, DP 4.1C, 1014.2 hPa (R), Wind 17 mph NW.
________________
Nick G
Otter Valley, Devon
83 m amsl
http://www.ottervalley.co.uk

"Jon O'Rourke" wrote in message
...
Decent gale in Exeter earlier this morning with a gust of 53KT.

Looking increasingly interesting for late Monday with a polar low or
similar
likely to affect the SW http://www.weather.org.uk/charts/UKCpf072.gif


COME ON :-)

Here was my local Dartmoor forecast for Monday and Tuesday issued yesterday.

" On Monday winds will become fresh to strong northwesterly and it will turn
cold with temperatures falling during the day to 2-4C by the afternoon.
Scattered wintry showers in the morning, but showers turning heavy and
prolonged in the afternoon and evening and turning quickly to sleet and
snow. Covering of snow above 250m asl by midnight.

Snow showers on Tuesday morning with a moderate or fresh north to
northwesterly winds and a snow cover persisting above 250m asl with
temperatures -1C to freezing. However, during the afternoon the winds will
ease and there will be sunny periods allowing temperatures to rise to 3-5C
depending on altitude with some thawing of snow. Temperatures plummeting
rapidly after dusk with a severe frost by dawn Wednesday morning with
temperatures -2C to -5C. "

Will
--

Jon O'Rourke wrote:
Decent gale in Exeter earlier this morning with a gust of 53KT.

Looking increasingly interesting for late Monday with a polar low or
similar likely to affect the SW
http://www.weather.org.uk/charts/UKCpf072.gif

Jon (tropical east Devon)

Windy all night in West Somerset, too - gusts around 40KTs from Midnight to
0300Z..... that's my fairly sheltered sensor too - the noises in the chimney
(next to bed) were very loud!

Hi Nick,

It was indeed a windy one. Had to close the bedroom window for the first
time in weeks due to the noise. One gust even rattled the door in the stove
in the living room which I have never had before, must have resonated
correctly over the chimney top. My 3m high and sheltered anemometer recorded
a gust of 40 mph. Judging by how the trees were swaying and doing a
calculation to 10m, it was force 6 at my house which is very sheltered from
the west by a slope(thank goodness!!!). Usual dead branches littered around
but that's normal. It's no problem tidying up, took 10 minutes tops.
Problems arise when you get structural damage to the house when the wind is
really strong. It'll happen one day! :-(

Nice sunny and breezy morning now, temp +9.2C at 1010 and the sun feels very
warm, off to get to grips with and tame a laurel hedge. Then I'll check my
sledge is OK for Tuesday grin .

Will
--

"Nick Gardner" wrote in message
...
It was howling a hooley here last night. The wind was gusting between 45
and
50 mph from 01:30 to 4:00 with mean wind speeds of between 25 and 30 mph .
For this reasonably sheltered location, that's quite windy and the
windiest
it has been since I moved here in May 2006.

What a mess this morning in the garden; table and chairs blown over, along
with pots, bits of tree on the lawn and the usual recycling box and bins
all
over the place.

Currently (09:00), 8.6C, RH 73%, DP 4.1C, 1014.2 hPa (R), Wind 17 mph NW.
________________
Nick G
Otter Valley, Devon
83 m amsl
http://www.ottervalley.co.uk

In article ,
Jon O'Rourke writes:
Decent gale in Exeter earlier this morning with a gust of 53KT.

Looking increasingly interesting for late Monday with a polar low or similar
likely to affect the SW http://www.weather.org.uk/charts/UKCpf072.gif

I think we had the strongest gusts of the winter here in my part of
Surrey last night. Somehow the black plastic recycling box in which we
put our cans was blown from outside the back door into our front garden,
which involved it in doing half a circumnavigation of the house. It must
have initially been blown towards the NE, then to the S or SE, and
finally to the W or SW.
--
John Hall
"If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts;
but if he will be content to begin with doubts,
he shall end in certainties." Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

Very capricious indeed in Buckinghamshire, and lucky not to end badly.

http://jcp.fotopic.net/p48718717.html
http://jcp.fotopic.net/p48718718.html
http://jcp.fotopic.net/p48721601.html

(Images of three of the containers blown from a freight train on the
west coast main line and left fouling the tracks)

On Mar 1, 6:27 pm, Mark Annand
wrote:
Very capricious indeed in Buckinghamshire, and lucky not to end badly.

http://jcp.fotopic.net/p48718717.htm...p48721601.html

(Images of three of the containers blown from a freight train on the
west coast main line and left fouling the tracks)

Tongue-in-cheek, your image watermark states 2007 ;-)