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My neighbour still hasn't put up a new fence on their side since the old one was wrecked mid-Feb last year.
I expect they'll claim to have seen Sunday's storm coming back last summer and decided not to bother .
My neighbour still hasn't put up a new fence on their side since the old one was wrecked mid-Feb last year.I expect they'll claim to have seen Sunday's storm coming back last summer and decided not to bother .
I put my garden fence up 15 years ago and the wooden posts are coming to the end of their life. Several have rotted through and I've been gradually replacing them, but I have at least three that need doing. Hopefully my system of props will hold up for the coming week or two - the last post I replaced took about two hours of digging/smashing as I didn't hold back on the concrete when I installed them originally
I'm sure if you asked ARTzeman he'd play you The Last Post on his horn and post the recording on this thread. R
Latest Arpege seems to run Ciara in slightly faster and slightly weaker across the south. Seems to be about 150miles further east on Sunday morning, centred just north of Antrim. Strong winds arrive in the NW sooner as a result however.
Selfishly, let's hope that's the start of a trend
Just where I am too!
Posts rotting/unstable, with about 4 m3 of concrete around each one. I've got 6 posts propped up with a brace connected to a small sister post I put in about 2 feet away from each one... with another half tonne of concrete.
Joys of my well manicured and firmed up cotoneaster hedge that can easily flex in the strongest wind and still stay in one piece. Anyone putting up 6 ft panel fences around here at my coastal location are just asking for it.
Back to about Sunday's winds, GFS now has 76 mph gusts at around mid-afternoon for my neck of the woods. Still, at least it looking like a
day time event where I can watch it unfold in daylight rather than being kept awake all night by howling and banging in the dark.
rather than being kept awake all night by howling and banging in the dark.
Newlywed neighbours?
latest GFS 12z still has plenty of 70 to 80mph gusts for most of England for Sunday
https://twitter.com/peacockreports/status/1225466951067152387
Looking very ugly for the S half of England during Sunday daytime.
With those winds and the heavy rain, I imagine it'll be looking as wild as it ever has since the Burns Day storm of 1990.
ECM also has 70 to 80 mph gusts on Sunday for most of the country. definitely a Amber warning if verified maybe even red.
Did a few posts about 3 years ago. The balls of concrete were complete b*stards to dig out. I smashed them up with a sledge hammer and bunged some in the wheelie bin but overdid it and they refused to take it due to the weight. Took 2 months to "filter" them all away gradually a few lumps at a time !
I am surprised that the weather warnings are not being upgraded as a potential major storm event this coming Sunday. Stormchaser for example implies this could be construed to be a rare weather event for the south of England and I for one have cancelled my travel arrangements locally from London to Berkshire due to the severity of the forecast. However I do wonder whether this storm may be downgraded nearer the time by the Met Office due to fluctuations in local weather conditions or alternatively we are really in for a bumpy ride for at least 12 hours from early Sunday morning onwards. However the Met Office continue to offer an amber weather warning nonetheless.
Yes I had a look on the weather.us site and it was showing a mean gust of 70mph on Sunday here in Sheffield with the operational a little higher! Hopefully it is over-estimating the max gusts
You need to smash em up smaller and drop them down your trouser leg while out for a walk, like in The Great Escape.
Anyway back to the winds and the high-res output seems to be going for max gusts in the 100-120kph range across most of inland southern England, so 62-75mph ish. Pretty strong stuff.
Thinking that’s a shade over done James, around 65mph for London at its peak good agreement across the set.
http://www.meteociel.fr/modeles/gefs_table.php?x=0&y=0&lat=51.5085&lon=-0.12574&run=12&ext=fr&mode=13&sort=0
ps small 965 12z short wave Perhaps Phenomenal sea height and swell for n/w
https://twitter.com/peacockreports/status/1225466951067152387Looking very ugly for the S half of England during Sunday daytime.With those winds and the heavy rain, I imagine it'll be looking as wild as it ever has since the Burns Day storm of 1990.
’Amber’? Not quite yet unless you can predict tomorrow’s update 😉
I’ve issued a ‘blanket’ warning for my area for Sunday especially but as of now it’s difficult to put too much detail except it’s going to be very windy. We won’t know until 24hrs out what the max gusts are likely to be, and where and when, but I’ll be advising against doing too much travelling Sunday whatever happens.
Hello, is this the fence site?My fence on one side has completely disintegrated over the winter. Some panels are now just piles of thin planking. The neighbour is being picky about replacement costs cos we want a hit'n'miss fence to stop it getting blown over and the builders we had to do our extension have now disappeared for the winter :-@ One tip they did give was when they redo a fence they stick new posts in half way between the old posts - saves digging out the old concrete, though I guess you have to chop a panel or two if you do panels.