Aaron

They definitely underestimated it to begin with. The wind speeds forecast on the Met Office site have increased from 40 mph a few days ago to 49 mph.

Yeah, some poor unlucky bloke got killed in Leeds in March during gales, due to a skyscraper creating a dangerous wind tunnel. I wouldn't be so sure.. I'm pretty far from the coast but I got 61 mph gusts earlier this year despite being located inland and on the east of the Pennines.

Netweather have us down for 47 mph gusts.. they're usually higher, especially in this area, due to Pennine lee wave winds.. should be an interesting spell of windy weather.. but i'm sure not as windy as March this year when I had over 60 mph gusts..

Monday is looking windier in the south, while Tuesday is looking very windy in the north. Met Office have us down for 44 mph gusts, and as we all know they do tend to under-cook a lot of things

Forecast for Birmingham is 40 mph gusts on Tuesday with 37 mph on Monday. Looking very windy here too. Blackpool expected 58 mph gusts!

Can't wait to be honest, a proper Autumn storm.

Despite February being our warmest winter month of 2011, it also recorded my deepest snowfall for the year.. rather odd, but then again January was very dry.

I'm surprised the Met Office haven't issued an early warning.

Decent storms, definitely. AS much as I love storms, snow has and always will be the one weather event I look forward to each year.

Seems to be the case for all of the UK I'm afraid. We seem to sacrifice decent storms for decent snow and vice versa!

That would deliver a lot of snow to the South West if that happened. It's happened many times before, like when the UK recorded its deepest 24 hour snowfall below 300 meters on Dartmoor.

Seems to be a dud for the SE then. As usual I suspect the electrical stuff will steer off into the Benelux.

Looks like a Kent clipper at best.

We should be aiming for this come January,

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate/uk/anomacts/2011/14/2011_14_Sunshine_Anomaly_1971-2000.gif Here's the anomaly maps for sunshine during summer 2011. So pretty poor unless you live in: North west Scotland Western Wales Or that small circle in Yorkshire (where I'm located )

for the snowiest city in Britain, that's not a lot of snow!

Mhm. We usually do well in an average winter too, so I shan't be complaining

I wonder why there was snow in southern England on that day but not northern England? :ponder ponder:

21.4c and sunny spells

Mean temperature at Leeds Bradford Airport in February 1998 was 7.2C, warmer than the following April by 2 degrees!

2011 January: 33.8 mm (below average) February: 75.9 mm (much above average, usual driest month) March: 11.1 mm (much below average) April: 1.5 mm (extremely below average) May: 32.5 mm (below average) June: 52.5 mm (slightly below average) July: 35.8 mm (below average) August: 48.3 mm (below average, usual wettest month) Winter: 129.5 mm (average 167 mm) Spring: 45.1 mm (average 152 mm) Summer: 136.3 mm (average 170 mm) Annual 291.4 mm (average first 8 months: 430 mm) Rather dry overall, a long way to go before I reach my average rainfall for the first 8 months, gonna take a wet month to do that!

First day of Autumn... mostly sunny and 19°C, the highest temperature for over a week surely!

Nobody cares. It's called having a bit of fun, nobody is trying to predict whether it will be a white Christmas or not. After last year, we missed out on the snow during the latter half of December. Something similar to December 2009 with the cold of December 2010 please.

Summer 2011: A summer that nobody will remember in 3 years time. Certainly not like 2007 or 2008 which everyone remembers due to the massive amounts of rainfall.

Very much the same here. Leaves on the ground, turning red and golden. Soon they'll be fully turning, and it will look fabulous.