After a calm and sunny day the wind is starting to get up now. Nothing to severe, yet.... The first few spots of rain are just hitting the window.

Pressure 968.2 down from 972.6 an hour ago 981 3 hours ago.

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Like already posted its as if the calm spell has been broken all of a sudden. I went to town for a quickie and the calm dry weather changed to wet and windy in the space of half an hour. The river in now with in its banks.

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Like already posted its as if the calm spell has been broken all of a sudden. I went to town for a quickie and the calm dry weather changed to wet and windy in the space of half an hour. The river in now with in its banks.

Eh?? 

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Pressure was low anyway, but now falling rapidly. After a high of 986.4hPa @ 11am we are at 966.9hPa and falling rapidly. Breezy, blowing gale 8 and gusting 53mph or severe gale 9. 

Lucky bugger

Like already posted its as if the calm spell has been broken all of a sudden. I went to town for a quickie and the calm dry weather changed to wet and windy in the space of half an hour. The river in now with in its banks.

Eh?? 

Quite calm then for you, how days of gales for you now for this month ive lost count

Pressure was low anyway, but now falling rapidly. After a high of 986.4hPa @ 11am we are at 966.9hPa and falling rapidly. Breezy, blowing gale 8 and gusting 53mph or severe gale 9. 

Gales here since about 7pm.

Electic had gone off, now on half power, due to an electic generator caught fire just down the street!

Things crashing in the garden and something fallen off the roof.

Not looking forward to inspect the roof tomorrow!

Scary stuff, consiering its going to get worse....!

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Similar theme here. The calm here was very quickly replaced with gusty winds that far outdo anything we've experienced so far this winter. It's going to be a noisy night!

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unsettled set of fax charts for the next few days that wave front for Saturday seems to getting closer to s/e with each run I suspect flooding will be a isssue on and off all week for many parts of the uk and not clever new years eve fax chart either.

http://www.weathercharts.org/ukmomslp.htm

 

Can hear the wind picking up markedly the last few minutes, there's a big field to my south with no houses to block the wind and the wind is coming from that direction. 

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Nasty looking down to 944mb

http://meteocentre.com/analyses/map.php?lang=en&map=eur_full&area=eur&size=large

 

Wind getting up here in Tunbridge Wells.

Quite calm then for you, how days of gales for you now for this month ive lost count

Pressure was low anyway, but now falling rapidly. After a high of 986.4hPa @ 11am we are at 966.9hPa and falling rapidly. Breezy, blowing gale 8 and gusting 53mph or severe gale 9. 

This system is really a non event up here. For us we may see some strongish winds (60mph) on the leading edge tonight or early tomorrow morning, though the only real interest is the low pressure reading. Looks to be around 950hPa, perhaps a touch lower tomorrow, which is low, especially given the 939hPa we had yesterday / xmas eve. 

As for December wind speeds, to date (including todays readings so far) only 4 days have seen peak gusts < 50mph. 5 days with peak gusts > 80mph including Christmas Eve. Christmas day just missed out with a peak gust of 79.4mph.

After today things looks to be setting down to something far more like average. December traditionally is windy with a few storm systems for us. But Dec 2013 has been an exceptionally stormy even by NW Scotland standards. I just hope Jan - which is normally much more stormy than December is calmer than average  

Take care in the rain and gales due later tonight and tomorrow folks. 

Very windy in s/west Ireland in the next few hours

http://www.meteociel.fr/modeles/gfs/royaume-uni/vent-rafales/6h.htm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dear me something we dont want to see those amounts are topping up for many parts

http://www.meteociel.fr/modeles/gfs/royaume-uni/accumulation-precipitations/114h.htm

 

 

 

Wind really picking up here right now, gusting 25mph in the garden which is fairly sheltered, the rain isn't so hard but whats coming down certainly drives into you.

Sounds like my dad talking about the world war 2 without the wine and cake of course

 

Judy D, from Broad Oak, near Rye in East Sussex, has been without power since Monday, and as her house is entirely dependent on electricity she has "no shower, no hot water, no heat, no light, no television, no radio, no internet access".

Describing her Christmas dinner she said: "We made some toast on the wood burner, and we've got a little camping ring for tea and coffee so we had some scrambled egg, and we had a glass of wine with it and some chocolate cake for pudding. And very nice it was too."

Really think we have all have had a enough

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25502655

 

Just clocked 52mph on my weather station already, what's it going to be like in the morning?!

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What I have found fascinating is the speed in which the winds have picked up, nearly dead calm earlier and now roaring outside my window.

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