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Chichester 12m asl
South Dorset
Elevation 60m 197ft
Literally the calm before the storm.
Martin
Home: St Helens (26m asl) Work: Manchester (75m asl)
A TWO addict since 14/12/01
"How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of Conservative politics."
Aneurin Bevan
There's not much wind around just now but that is usually always the case to begin with in these events and it will no doubt be a completely different story later on with probably a very noisy night to come.
Currently around 13°C here in Edinburgh
Persistent heavy rain, dense low cloud and a slight chill to the air.
The lights are on inside as it's so gloomy.
Formerly of, Birdlip, highest village in the Cotswolds and snow heaven in winter; Hawkinge in Kent - roof of the South downs and Isles of Scilly, paradise in the UK.
https://scottishwildlifetrust.org.uk/things-to-do/watch-wildlife-online/loch-of-the-lowes-webcam/
I see since I posted this the video is now unavailable. I would guess storm damage of some kind - it has happened before. Not surprising.
West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire
Everything taken together, here in Lincolnshire are more good things than man could have had the conscience to ask.
William Cobbett, in his Rural Rides - c.1830
Got a slight lull in the rain currently, but it's been moderate to heavy for the last couple of hours.
Edinburgh, in the frost hollow below Blackford Hill
We seem to miss the rain but always get the gales !!
This storm is looking at giving a period of over 30 hours of prolonged gale to severe gales in northern Scotland. Just going to be a breezy day down south 😜
Been raining all afternoon but only in the last half hour has the wind started to ramp up. A gust of 65mph already to our SW at Dundrennan and over 70 mph now in Ireland and the Inner Hebrides
Originally Posted by: Crepuscular Ray
An 80 knot gust (no idea what that is in mph!) reported at Malin Hd at 5pm.
Still very blustery here but peak seems to have passed.
East Galway, Ireland.
All sorts happening here now, a very squally band of heavy rain (cold front) just rushed through like a train! The loudest gust so far. Followed by bright sunshine, a double rainbow and now wet and windy again. I notice Malin Head has reached 92 mph
Wet and very windy here just now.
In addition to the 92 mph at Malin Head, I see that Eglinton (City of Derry airport) has recorded a gust of 89 mph, which is very notable for the location.
Current conditions (personal WS)
However, the temperatures are refusing to drop just now even behind that cold front and the temperature here in Edinburgh as I write is still a ridiculously mild 18°C as I write.
There was a burst of sunshine later on which shows us that in this year in which the Sun just won't stop shining, the Sun always manages to find a way through regardless of the synoptic setup. On this occasion though, that wasn't enough to prevent today from going down as the first completely sunless day of this month. This means that a total of just half an hour of sunshine has been recorded over the whole of the last two days which is absolutely pathetic, and this is showing us once again that recent days haven't been anything like as sunny as what we've been used to this year.
There are also quite a number of frequent, blustery showers continuing to be brought in by that wind, so it's not really very good weather to be out and about in.
Meanwhile, the temperature here in Edinburgh has dropped back a bit to around 13°C although that is still far milder than I would like it to be at this time of the year.
17.0c
1000.9mb
12.0mm
Yesterday afternoon was horrible, 19mm fell in a few hours accompanied by the strong winds.
NW Leeds
187m asl
My PWS
The wind has also died down a bit although it remains rather cloudy at the moment but the Sun is now doing its best to break through as has usually always been the case this year.
Last night was still not particularly cold but it did end up being cooler than of late with an overnight minimum temperature of 9.1°C at Edinburgh Gogarbank.
Currently around 9°C here in Edinburgh