Storm Austen· Page 3

NMA
Advanced Member

23 October 2026 09:56:14

#51

A NW gale here with light rain showers.

Vale of the Great Dairies

South Dorset

Elevation 60m 197ft

warrenb
Advanced Member

23 October 2026 10:21:41

#52

Austen seems to have a flabby hat on, pressure gradient to the north of the centre is very flabby, hence the calm conditions here at the moment, chucking it down with rain mind you

Tonbridge 45m

Jim-55
Advanced Member

23 October 2026 10:46:08

#53

It will be wet and windy there now - sudden rain and wind here in the last half hour.

Originally Posted by: Devonian

Yes, you're right down there my brother messaged that he went to golf at at 08:10 in dry calm conditions and within 20 minutes the winds picked up and the rain became torrential, also had several large trees down that blocked them from leaving the course.

Here right now though there's a spattering of rain but the wind has picked up to a gale and stripping the leaves from trees, but not that bad.

Previously JimC. joined back then in 2009. Frome, N/E Somerset, 125mtrs asl.

NMA
Advanced Member

23 October 2026 10:56:41

#54

Not the worst for me in storm terms but the forecast here got the timings more or less right to the T.

Still a gale, though, with sunny spells and a leaf stripper event.

Vale of the Great Dairies

South Dorset

Elevation 60m 197ft

DEW
Advanced Member

23 October 2026 10:57:33

#55

Now brilliantly sunny - but it looks as if more active weather is approaching

I can calculate the movements of stars, but not the madness of men - Isaac Newton

Chichester 12m asl

Roger Parsons
Advanced Member

23 October 2026 11:11:55

#56

The rainfall radar shows the low pressure and its spirals of rain spinning anticlockwise perfectly, as it trundles slowly east along The Channel. Well worth a look.

Originally Posted by: Gandalf The White

Excellent - thanks for the heads up.

RogerP

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

Saint Snow
Advanced Member

23 October 2026 11:26:00

#57

Been relatively still here all morning until recently. The winds promised by the yellow warning here now starting. We're in the yellow area for Boelo, too

Martin

Home: St Helens (26m asl) Work: Manchester (75m asl)

A TWO addict since 14/12/01

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Aneurin Bevan

warrenb
Advanced Member

23 October 2026 11:27:57

#58

Still dead clam down here. Not a breath of wind. Has been like this for most of the morning

Tonbridge 45m

Crepuscular Ray
Advanced Member

23 October 2026 12:09:17

#59

No wind here but in the wettest area of Austen 15mm so far and another few hours to go

Jerry

Edinburgh, in the frost hollow below Blackford Hill

Crepuscular Ray
Advanced Member

23 October 2026 12:27:47

#60

Some intense rainfall echoes in West Lancs & Liverpool. Also Heavy showers breaking out in a line over the Pennines west of Leeds and Sheffield as well as a thunderstorm around the Humber.

Jerry

Edinburgh, in the frost hollow below Blackford Hill

+1

ozoneaurora
Newbie

23 October 2026 12:34:09

#61

Been a dry and very calm morning where I live in Sheffield, with occasional sunshine after early mist and hill fog. Still dry where I live but some slow moving sharp showers a few miles away to the NE. Wind picking up from the WNW. Temp = 12 C.

Edited by user 23 October 2026 12:54:08 | Reason: Not specified

johncs2016
Advanced Member

23 October 2026 12:35:05

#62

No wind here but in the wettest area of Austen 15mm so far and another few hours to go

Originally Posted by: Crepuscular Ray

Down here in the Borders, the latest radar maps show that I’m actually at the very edge of that main rain band and not all from far from a region where the weather isn’t actually all that bad.

With the manner in which everything is pivoting around though, we’re never quite getting into that region here in Hawick.

As a result, the rain just keeps on coming down here and now looks set to continue for the rest of the day, thereby making today’s yellow warning a very good call.

The north of Edinburgh, usually always missing out on snow events which occur not just within the rest of Scotland or the UK, but also within the rest of Edinburgh.

warrenb
Advanced Member

23 October 2026 12:45:44

#63

Just hit 18mm down here and just started chucking it down again. Still not a breath of wind

Tonbridge 45m

idj20
Advanced Member

23 October 2026 12:51:13

#64

As expected it was pretty blowy last night given it was an in-your-face onshore southerly straight in from the sea but we have had worse and has now - as expected - abated this morning and I'll be relatively sheltered from this afternoon back edge north west wind anyway.

Also had some rain where it has come to 13.6 mm so far today (16 mm yesterday from a previous weather system and pre-Austen showers in evening). Good for the garden.

Home location: Folkestone Harbour.