DeepSnow

So just done a but if shopping to get stuff to make a bolognese and treated myself to a nice bottle of red, which was £15 that I'd seen a few times and wanted to try. As I'm going through the door home, the bottle falls out its nice case and smashes over the steps by the door. This Storm currently can not cause anymore damage than the emotional damage I feel right now

Yes sorry its Ceredigion, Bridgend and RCT and the Vale have started stating they will be closed at the moment, as you say I expect more to announce closures soon, primarily in the red warning zone.

BBC News - Storm Eunice: Schools shut, all trains cancelled in Wales Storm Eunice: Schools shut, all trains cancelled in Wales WWW.BBC.CO.UK Schools will close and trains cancelled on Friday after the red wind warning for Storm Eunice. Hopefully if more places can do the same then the risk coould be significantly reduced during rush hour!

Just seen on BBC news that all schools will be closed in Wales tomorrow and all trains cancelled. Hopefully other businesses will do the same so there are less people travelling during rush hour when it's due to hit.

Just looked at these from the UKV and some areas look like the gusts have weakened a bit, albeit still very strong. However looks to have strengthened for some of us in the SW and South Wales.

Well living in Barry, directly on the South Wales coast, a town of 58,000 and with a small city of Cardiff with almost 500k and many large towns with 10-40,000 along the coast, I think its right that South Wales and parts of SW England have the red warning first as we will get hit first. As others have said, once Meto are more confident later, I'm sure the red will extend to other areas. As much as I like a good storm, I'm not overly sure I'm looking forward to tomorrow and the potential damage etc. Thankfully I'm off until Mondayso can stay in tomorrow.

Not looking good for us, thankfully im slightly sheltered by the houses to my south and west being slightly higher than be, exposed to a northerly wind though. Just cleared the rubbish in my garden ready and fixed the gate, no doubt ill have to fix it again over the weekend lol. Just hope everyone stays safe. Rather be over cautious than unprepared.

I will have to have a clean up in the garden and make sure the recycling goes in the shed for the night, otherwise the neighbours will have some free rubbish . It seems like there may have been a slight reduction in winds for us but it may change back by tonight, hopefully not though as still looking at possible 80mph.

That's not good for us here in South Wales, bringing even more widely potential 80-90mph gusts for us, I hope it modifies a bit come tomorrow.

Well Met forecast currently says 72mph gusts in Barry, XC Weather 77mph and Net Weather 82mph so I'd say with an increasing amount of confidence the area will get between 70-80mph for a few hours Friday morning. Hopefully there won't be any 'upgrades' so to speak tomorrow as I'd like to keep the roof on the house and my newly planted trees from last summer in the ground. I do love a good wind storm but when you to the 70-80+mph range, it does get a little unnerving.

Yes very gusty here in Barry, a lot of small branches about already and bits blowing around. Wasn't expecting this for today from Dudley.

I expect western and Southern counties of Wales will go red sometime tomorrow, unless there is a downgrade in wind strength

Well it was pretty windy in the early hours this morning with 30-40mph gusts and to think Friday could be 70-80+ here in Barry like most Southern counties is a bit worrying. Despite being a costal town we don't often see more than 60mph gusts here away from the immediate coast. It is nice to have some exciting weather just hope it doesn't prove to be too destructive. Interesting to see the BBC weather just said at the moment the snow will be over north England, north Wales and southern Scotland but wind gusts of 60-70mph, which is less than any of the models are prediction. They airing on the side of caution till tomorrow when they have a better idea of things?

I may have to take a drive somewhere to get my winter snow fix Saturday lol can't see costal areas getting any in the near future. Edit - as I just looked in the model threads it seems the low could go further south (could all change by tomorrow) but does bring the increasing risk for snow even on South costal areas, could be a surprise or two if the south corrections continue?

It's looking like we could very well get some wild weather in Wales Friday, could be some heavy snow from sort of the valleys north and especially with elevation. Will be an interesting few days of model watching ahead!

After a few very foggy mornings and misty days in Barry it's finally a clearer morning. Was chilly yesterday under the fog, only got to 5C and had our lowest minimum last night at -0.4C. Sad to say that our lowest temp as it use to get below that on a fairly regular occasion in winters past. Nice to have a proper frosty, seasonal morning though!

I'd have thought that would be fine as it's below freezing? Turned back to rain here now, front looks to be almost through though so will be too light with what remains for any low lying snow now.

Temp 3.1c, can see it trying to turn to sleet here Just turned to proper sleet as I wrote that

Had a heavy shower here in Barry and temp dropped to 4.9c,it did briefly turn sleety. So I hold out some hope if we get some heavier precip here to see a little flurry.

Was expecting a frost this morning after BBC weather yesterday said most would be below freezing overnight but it's 3.5C and no frost. I just thought I don't remember the last time we had a proper air frost here and how difficult it seems to be the last few years to get a proper air frost.

If only it could be a little further south west and the cold hang on to put more of south Wales in with a shot!

Just drove from Cowbridge to Barry with work and it was snowing lightly to my surprise. Rain in Barry though sadly!

The rain was awful driving to work this morning as was the wind. Not looking great for any real cold in the foreseeable future unfortunately

I'm surprised there isn't a yellow warning for rain out! Driving home from work from Ogmore to Barry up the A48, could barely see a thing the rain was so heavy and a lot of surface water and minor flooding about.

Merry Christmas everyone, hope you all have a wonderful time! I think this is just the new norm for us, be it climate change or otherwise with chasing cold than doesn't materialise and little snowfall. Lets just hope the winter can pull one good cold/snowfall out the bag. Or lets all move to Canada