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He dosent live in cumbria I also remember january 2005, it was nasty, not quite as nasty as the boxing day '98 one wind wise, but much, much more rain

Been well windy here for 2 or 3 hours now 35 to 40mph mean speed and approx 60mph gusts and they are frequent

You mean the boxing day storm of 1998, now that was proper nasty, i think that topped 110mph at times, i will never forget that one

The storm of boxing day 1998 will always stay in my mind, i will never forget it, ive seen some dodgy weather over the years. For example the winter of '81/'82, over minus 20 for a lot of nights, milked cows then, was a nightmare, they sent 1000 litre plastic bags for the milk to go into when the tank was full as tankers were frozen and couldent collect very often, to my mind it made last december like a spring day and it went on for 7 weeks That freaky summer of 2007 went to nearest town on motorbike one day went round a corner into a literal wall of water,so i backtracked and stood under a tree, the wall of water slowly came towards me, just as it got to me it changed direction and went north, i looked up and two angry clound were heading oppisite each other and looked to me as thry were trying to make water spouts, i reconed i know what comes after that, so i got out of there fast In april that year i was wallpapering for a friend and we saw hail stones the size of golfballs 2006 was the hottest summer i can remember, and i can remember 1976 1985 was the wettest year i can remember, apart from the day of donnington monsters of rock, the rest of that summer was constant rain and fog News years eve 1974/'75 there was a thunderstorm, the like ive never heard since I remember 1975, 1976, 1984 and 1995 being long hot summers They were some of the stand out bits that stick in the mind

I also remember the one in january 2005, the more well known storm that flooded carlisle, it was quite nasty. The big difference was rain, there was a shed load in 2005, cant remember any in 1998, wind wise, 2005 although bad wasent a patch on 1998, and it was cold too. Windermere is quite a bit south of me, that would have made a bit of a difference. The area around the solway, bad weather is a formality, ive lived here all my life, and have seen some bad stuff. But for me something has to be remembered above all others, and that was boxing day 1998

I read with interest last autumn about the woman and her bees and what they did with their hive whatever they did, she translated it to be a harsh winter, the bees were right. Now we have 2 horses here, which grew their winter coats extra thick last autumn are starting to shed them, animals are better weather forecasters than us, so what does that tell you ? They did the same after last january's bad spell, reading posts on this forum, they have got it wrong this time. Have they ??? Time will tell

See my post 26 th december 1998, that was the worst The winter of 1981/82 seconed, minus 20+ for days/weeks, i live on a farm, they had to bring 1000 gallon plastic bags for the milk as tankers could not get here. milking cows was a nightmare, things froze so fast January 2005, the storm that flooded carlisle, not as bad as the '98 one though. Will never forget a thunder storm that passed over on dec31st 1974/ 1st jan 1975, a real banger, woke everybody up. And that wiered summer of 2007, one day i saw a literal wall of water, it came towards me, a few yards from me it went in another direction i looked up and saw clouds, black nasty ones going across each other, it looked like water spouts was about to happen, it diddent but not good anyway, and in march/april that year i was wallpapering for a friend and saw hail stones the size of tennis balls

Hi I am new here, so greetings to all. I would like to tell you all about the most frightening devestating weather incedent, i have ever witnessed Boxing day 1998 was fairly normal to start with, was at a mates house when it kicked off, managed to get home in time before the strongest winds arrived I remember looking out at one point and seeing a tin roof sheet flying across the yard and impaleing itself in another roof, i had to go into another building to secure its roof, as the roof on a lean to building next to it, was, i dont know where, and these were good solid roofs, well built. I live in the scottish borders, hurricane stephen as i later found out it was called, passed over glasgow, so my area was in the fireing line on the southern flank. 100mph + i recon that night, i spent the rest of the night beside the coal fire being pestered by two labrador dogs, the electric went off early on. The following morning revieled devistation, a whole wood was flattened not far from me, dozens of trees like matchsticks, a guy near me lost the gable end from his house. Parts of the missing roof were over a hundred yards away and probably there are bits i have never found to this day I have an idea what people go through in other parts of the world when this type of weather is a regular thing. I dont mind admitting it frightened the living daylights out of me, i dont ever want to experience the like again