The media really should be taking this one by the scruff of the neck. I didn’t even get a news alert of Sky or the BBC.

The rarity of a red warning should be enough to issue start warnings to the public. Latest info suggest north wales and some parts of the NW should also be in the red zone

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Schools have let the children out early here... winds had died down a bit. The calm before the storm! Have checked and I am in the red warning zone.

i think the location of the impact means it of muted interest for the media! i'm fairly sure most workers at the Guardian might think its a long way from Shoreditch.

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It was the main story on BBC Scotland this lunchtime.
I suspect the latest grim COVID news has pushed it down the list

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It was reported on the BBC1 news at 13:00 just now and quite high up the pecking order

They had a man in Aberdeen but unfortunately his line went down half way through

 

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Aye, I've got a mate in Dunbar who's got a first floor flat two streets in from the seafront. He's right in the firing line for this

The wind at Edinburgh Gogarbank was already gusting up to 35.7 mph from the WNW as at 1pm this afternoon, and is continuing to strengthen as I write. In addition to that, it has now clouded over from the NE where there is quite a lot of precipitation just now.

The latest rain/snow radar maps show that most of the snow is over high ground, but even some coastal areas are seeing some sleet according to that.

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Here in Edinburgh, this is the closest which we have come to being in a red warning area for anything since we were under that red warning for snow during the Beast from the East event back in February/March 2018. SInce we are not quite under the current red warning area, that should tell you just how rare that is (even any sort of "interesting" weather doesn't exactly happen very often here in Edinburgh after all).

As for coverage by the mainstream media, I'm sure that this would probably be the main news event with much more widespread coverage than what we are seeing, if this was happening in the south of England rather than here in that NE corner of the UK.

 

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Has he painted crosshairs on his house?  

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He'll have a view of the stars for the rest of winter if that icon model is anything to go by!

This old argument. I thought the reason you don’t get so much coverage up north is you’re much harder than us southern softies? 
Seriously though I actually think you have a point.

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Kind of feeling a bit left out here at Kent . . . thankfully.



It looks like that circulation will lose some of its punch by the time that arrive here at Kent later tomorrow, seems I may be dodging a bullet on this occasion. 

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Lights already starting to flicker here...

 

Lot of actual news about for a change too - covid eu resurgence + nu variant, channel migrant tragedy, boris boris-ing

Temp at Aberdeen ABZ going up now at 5dc and rain, wind 35pm gusting 50

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Snow!
https://www.lochmorlich.com/webcam 

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Yes, the wind is really picking up here and I’m not looking forward to the coming hours.

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