Really good swirl of cloud around the low showing on the rainfall radar.

 

Not sure if is the same general concept, but I've often noticed that winds from a northern or eastern direction seem to be more boisterous and wild than winds of the same speeds from the more usual west or south direction. 

Agreed as when we get Easterly or NE the air and wind type seem different and rougher than W, SW and S winds feel softer flow.

 

Not sure if is the same general concept, but I've often noticed that winds from a northern or eastern direction seem to be more boisterous and wild than winds of the same speeds from the more usual west or south direction. 

Of course, Gavin P. has been telling us quite a lot in his most recent videos that this is a very unusual situation which we are as named storms normally occur when the jet stream is coming straight at us across the Atlantic with a more zonal setup, so to get one when the jet stream is more buckled with a much more meridional setup such as what we have just now is very rare indeed.

As a result of that, most of our biggest wind gusts usually come from the west or SW. Here in Edinburgh, we have had some high wind gusts before from the east or NE and those are usually very boisterous due to those winds coming straight in from off the North Sea. However, these are much less common and tend to occur in those type of zonal setups where the jet steam is further south, resulting in those low pressure systems taking a much more southerly track with that resulting in our winds coming from the east or NE due to those low pressure systems passing to our south.

Since our named storms usually come from more zonal setups, this means that storm force winds from the north or the south (especially if there is an eaasterly component to the latter of those two cases), are probably even rarer still and in all of the time that I have been a member of this forum, this has probably only been the first time ever, that I have reported any sort of high wind gusts from the north.

As I write, I can also report that the maximum wind gust at Edinburgh Gogarbank has now increased to 46.0 mph from the north as at 10pm tonight.

58mph gusts here so far. Snow turned back to sleet, associated with slightly warmer air moving down the east. Lying snow in Dales seems to be above 250-300m at the moment.

 

Of course, Gavin P. has been telling us quite a lot in his most recent videos that this is a very unusual situation which we are as named storms normally occur when the jet stream is coming straight at us across the Atlantic with a more zonal setup, so to get one when the jet stream is more buckled with a much more meridional setup such as what we have just now is very rare indeed.

As a result of that, most of our biggest wind gusts usually come from the west or SW. Here in Edinburgh, we have had some high wind gusts before from the east or NE and those are usually very boisterous due to those winds coming straight in from off the North Sea. However, these are much less common and tend to occur in those type of zonal setups where the jet steam is further south, resulting in those low pressure systems taking a much more southerly track with that resulting in our winds coming from the east or NE due to those low pressure systems passing to our south.

Since our named storms usually come from more zonal setups, this means that storm force winds from the north or the south (especially if there is an eaasterly component to the latter of those two cases), are probably even rarer still and in all of the time that I have been a member of this forum, this has probably only been the first time ever, that I have reported any sort of high wind gusts from the north.

As I write, I can also report that the maximum wind gust at Edinburgh Gogarbank has now increased to 46.0 mph from the north as at 10pm tonight.

 

Unusual pattern alright although the current set up does bear some similarities (though not totally of course) with the 2nd half of November 1981. 

Loads of shinanigans going on at liverpool manchester and leeds airports. Planes unable to land. Some have, but so.e otyers have been aborting

One flight easyjet to amsterdam tried twice at liverpool, went to manchester and now appears to be heading to birmingham.

To be honest, I don't know why they couldn't have just cancelled those flights as the flight operators must surely have known what the weather was going to be like for quite some time (this event was forecast quite well in advance within the model output) and so, they should have been able to prepare properly for that. This in turn, would have prevented a lot of these problems.

Of course, that wouldn't been very good for the paying passengers, but they probably would have been very understanding of the situation if they know what was happening, and why such actions were being taken.

 

To be honest, I don't know why they couldn't have just cancelled those flights as the flight operators must surely have known what the weather was going to be like for quite some time (this event was forecast quite well in advance within the model output) and so, they should have been able to prepare properly for that. This in turn, would have prevented a lot of these problems.

Of course, that wouldn't been very good for the paying passengers, but they probably would have been very understanding of the situation if they know what was happening, and why such actions were being taken.

 

Hardly any impact from Arwen here. A windy night with a bit of rain but highest gust seems to have been 46mph. We regularly get much worse with a W or SW blow through the Central Belt from unnamed Low's

That highest gust was enough to give us our windiest day of this autumn so far, but wasn't enough to give us our windiest day of this year. For that, we need to go back to 23 February 2021 when we had a maximum wind gust of 55.2 mph from the south at Edinburgh Gogarbank.

Even that bit of rain amounted to just the usual fraction of a millimeter over the last 24 hour period which isn't even enough to to be worth actually reporting in my books.

At the end of the day, I am just absolutely sick and tired of all of the more interesting weather happening elsewhere in the UK whilst Edinburgh continues to get virtually nothing at all in that regard.

 

That highest gust was enough to give us our windiest day of this autumn so far, but wasn't enough to give us our windiest day of this year. For that, we need to go back to 23 February 2021 when we had a maximum wind gust of 55.2 mph from the SSE at Edinburgh Gogarbank.

Even that bit of rain amounted to just the usual fraction of a millimeter over the last 24 hour period which isn't even enough to to be worth actually reporting in my books.

At the end of the day, I am just absolutely sick and tired of all of the more interesting weather happening elsewhere in the UK whilst Edinburgh continues to get virtually nothing at all in that regard.

I don't quite understand why Edinburgh missed out here. OK, you're not right on the east coast to get the full brunt of it but you didn't even get much rain, let alone snow. Here it was a pretty wild night, lashing rain/sleet much of the time and I awoke to a smattering of lying snow on favoured surfaces.

 

I don't quite understand why Edinburgh missed out here. OK, you're not right on the east coast to get the full brunt of it but you didn't even get much rain, let alone snow. Here it was a pretty wild night, lashing rain/sleet much of the time and I awoke to a smattering of lying snow on favoured surfaces.

From that though, I'm sure that you will now be able to see what I mean when I always say that Edinburgh just doesn't generally get interesting weather, even when everywhere else is. The situation as regards to a lack of rainfall in this part of the world has been going on throughout this month, and isn't just something which happened last night with Storm Arwen.

The end result of this is that as at 8am this morning, a total of just 11.4 mm of rain has been recorded as the total for the whole of this month at Edinburgh Gogarbank. Not much in the way of rainfall is forecast to fall here either during the rest of this month and so according to all of the data which I have, this month is now almost certainly going to go down as our driest November on record as a result, which also means that this autumn will go down as being drier than average despite the very wet October which we had.

Not nearly as severe as was predicted. Couldn't even manage 70mph here and I can't see any 90-100mph gusts anywhere. Inverbervie had 78mph.

Peak windspeed was 68mph at Dyce which is the second highest gust in the 21st Century after 75mph in Dec 2011 but to put that into context every single year between 1965 and 1976 recorded a gust of at least 68mph and the average yearly peak gust was in fact 71 mph between 1952 and 1989 compared to just 60mph for the 21st Century to date 

It was just a nasty unpleasant spell of repulsive weather that, like everything we get nowadays, couldn't match the severity of what we used to get in the past 

Not nearly as severe as was predicted. Couldn't even manage 70mph here and I can't see any 90-100mph gusts anywhere. Inverbervie had 78mph.

Peak windspeed was 68mph at Dyce which is the second highest gust in the 21st Century after 75mph in Dec 2011 but to put that into context every single year between 1965 and 1976 recorded a gust of at least 68mph and the average yearly peak gust was in fact 71 mph between 1952 and 1989 compared to just 60mph for the 21st Century to date 

It was just a nasty unpleasant spell of repulsive weather that, like everything we get nowadays, couldn't match the severity of what we used to get in the past 

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I take it you didn’t loose power for a long period then ! Like most of the northeast did, and still are without power, and the hundreds of trees felled was also not noteworthy ? Careful what you wish for 😳

some personal weather stations ( not calibrated) did show gusts of 93 mph at Portsoy and 98 mph at Gardenstown, I would call that noteworthy.

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