Darandio

UAE 19 now preparing final approach at Glasgow.

The Airport roof post wasn't entirely correct, it's part of the railway station roof, nothing to do with planes struggling to land. (Although they are struggling to land of course, but for entirely different reasons than a roof!)

Doesn't say 'State Of Emergency' but it does say 'Kilkenny County Council have declared a major emergency'. Probably the same thing. http://www.kilkennycoco.ie/eng/RSSLatestNewsAndAnnouncements/Severe-Weather-Conditions-Kilkenny-city-and-County-Dangerous-Driving-Conditions.34305.shortcut.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Seems the Express are more interested in Friday, naming the storm the 'Valentines Day Massacre' Although reading above, it seems that the Friday/Saturday one is becoming more unlikely! The Express do it again.

His Twitter account shows what is apparently him and a young child. The same account provides some of the most hilarious internet activity ever, if you expand and read the replies to his tweets.

Got exactly the same here, but on the east. It's gone utterly mental out here.

When there is a clamour to put out the most sensationalist headline possible, details often get overlooked.

It wasn't a hurricane, never mind a proper one. Weren't you told to stop posting similar stuff the other night?

Well, have woken up to some interesting news this morning, seems it was quite bad for some. Shame on anyone who criticised the Met Office, said they had called it wrong and claiming that this was a non event before it had even arrived. Shame on anyone criticising the rail companies for cancelling, with so many trees down on the network, you can only imagine the potential for some kind of accident if they hadn't. And to think that this all came from nothing more than a minor 'disturbance' thousands of miles away. It still amazes me how they can predict such an event from something many would see as so inconspicuous.

This one is interesting as well. http://www.shorehambeachweather.co.uk/

Has that Shoreham transmitter blown away? No data now. http://www.shorehambeachweather.co.uk/ Never mind, its back.

Presumably erecting a new wind turbine, to take advantage?

I thought that the rain was always due to arrive around this time, with the stronger winds not to follow until around midnight?

Completely stupid question no doubt, but moving that imagery forward to the present time, is it the formation towards the top left that is going to form this storm?

It must be broken!

I've no idea what sort of totals we have here, but it ranks highly on the 'a lot' scale. What I do know is that I ventured out earlier, it was steadily raining pretty much how it had been all day. The heavens then opened and I have seen nothing like it, waterfalls cascading from shop roofs and the build up was that much that it brought down around 40ft of heavy duty guttering at the local Asda shortly after I had gone inside. It was up when I went in and down when I came out!

Where exactly is your "Teesside"?

Wind has now substantially increased and coupled with heavy snow, visibility has reduced dramatically, I can hardly see the street opposite. Does this count as a blizzard?

Light snow restarted again here after a break of an hour or so.

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Been on and off here for a couple of hours now, but starting to really pick up with some really heavy falls. Is this the early start of that "specific" amber warning? After all, it was due at 19:25 precisely?

Starting to get much heavier here now, with bigger flakes. Radar may suggest this could be the start of a long period.

How accurate is the hourly forecast on the Weather Channel? I hadn't checked for 24 hours or so, but it is now snowing some sort of snowfall every hour from 14:00 this afternoon right through until Sunday, which is as far as it goes.

Thing is, they were there before yesterday and then were taken away before being reinstated. I'd bet money they will return, things are changing so fast at the moment.

Indeed, after some very feint flurries earlier, the heavier stuff has arrived.