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  @MAF doesn't feel anywhere near that warm  I'm cold and need gloves, been the same since this so called warm spell started. Felt warmer before this.

Only 8c here I've checked met obs.

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  @lassie23 it's been sunny but cold here lol.

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  @Methuselah well it's trying at least, but north/north west won't do much here unless we get lucky like in December, couldn't believe we actually got snow in that nne streamer, but the key part of that is e.

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Another nice sunny day. I thought the weather forgot how to do that lol.

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  @lassie23 again lol, someone needs to tell whoever said that, it's impossible now, it's been too warm this month.

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  @Darkcloud I've bought a sunburst but it's sitting on my window sill waiting for spring. Frost might kill it of before it's established.

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  @Freeze is it a frost hollow, it a clear night with a high, temps will drop.

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  @lassie23 if we don't have at least one cold spell by then, I'm moving, to one of the poles 

  @lassie23 

  @lassie23

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  @Freeze no not really, may be a little, but this fog had drizzle.

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  @Challock Weather and here, but it was damp fog so probably low cloud.

  @MAF think this will be much better, will take some getting used to though.

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  @lassie23 mine us walkable on, but damp enough to pull tap roots out nice and easy.

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  @Freeze done some basic gardening today, basically pulled a few weeds while the weather is warm and soil is damp win win in my book.

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@Floatylight strange it's calmer here than Isha was for now.

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@lassie23 it's the arrow thing.

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4 minutes ago, lassie23 said:

no this was mass fireworks from all directions lol

God knows.

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50 minutes ago, lassie23 said:

It was like guy fawkes night here last night, any ideas what the celebrations were about

Someone's wedding?

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3 hours ago, Lord Grogon said:

WeatherPro app showing a gradual increase in temperatures today. Peaking at an impressive 14C, at the even more impressive time of midnight!
That doesn’t happen very often.

It'll drop once the cold front clears through, whatever time that is.

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2 hours ago, Atmogenic said:

was actually a lovely day outside almost spring-like as Troy said, if that wind was calmer I could actually sit outside for a bit but have to wait for a few months for that yet.

Done some gardening today, pulled some crawling buttercups out of my flower bed, can't do that when soil is dry. It's crowding the planted plants. It's welcome in my wild flower bed but none growing there lol.

[When do you change preferences from cold to warm (if at all)?]

I like winter in winter, spring in spring, summer in summer but without extremes for medical reasons, and autumn in autumn.  Seems to be to much to ask for in this country though lol, take last year's winter till late May June, autumn in July yuk.

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5 hours ago, MAF said:

Ah, but thats according to weather stations readings. Who's to say there weren't higher gust away from a weather station?

I know for a fact there was, fences that survived cerian are down, and that did gust at 80+ for three hours. It wasn't bad for most of the time, but with ppn it gusted hard where I was, but not in cerians league. Thank goodness. It was never gonna be that bad, but it was worse than those down playing it are saying.

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8 hours ago, Alderc 2.0 said:

Completely disagree, your statement is too broad, the storm was not severe for a large part of the heavily populated south where the amber was never needed and never should have been issued, not just my or my next door neighbours back garden. 
 

Further north conditions just about warranted the Amber warning, but I’ve still seen very few (I don’t think there were any) official gusts over 75mph for lowland stations away from exposed coasts. Clearly aviation and ferries where affected along with the trains but again this all very temporary and especially on train front their striking staff cause far more disruption than any weather event we’ve seen recently 

I maintain my position too many warnings are issued full stop and like yesterday they are often too aggressively worded and too widespread. Fortunately we have very few true life  threatening meteorological events in the UK however the number of warning suggests otherwise i maintain that a ‘cry wolf’ situation is in the making where people just won’t prepare for when something truly impactful and devastating comes along. 

 

Tell that to the people with damage down here, to people who couldn't catch there ferries, or to people who couldn't get home cause trains weren't running. This was not just a northern event.

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9 hours ago, sunnijim said:

Who said anything about low winds?

It was a wild and blustery night.

There is nothing wrong with cutting through the hyperbole  and stating facts; and they are facts, not just Wishful thinking that continues to try and back  a now defunct idea that gusts went higher than 60mph in the SE widely.

Models were about 10mph over the top.

Even Langdon bay only managed 59mph as its highest gust.

If anyone can produce evidence of higher gusts, fine but let's not  start shooting people down if they don't have the populer view of it being a remarkable event.

There was plenty of that here last night as members dared to say winds speeds were unremarkable etc.

60mph doesn't normally ark the lines opposite my house, that's how I know

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12 minutes ago, Gowon said:

Not sure about what, Alexis?

That a stronger gusts didn't come.e along and take it down, it may not have been badly mentained. 

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1 hour ago, Snow tyre said:

Update on the beach. It's still there, although as may be expected with the storm surge, low tide is  almost where high tide normally is, with big rollers pounding in.

Well that warning worthy for a start, that storm surge in some areas might be slightly overtopping. 

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1 hour ago, Polaris said:

As is Bedfordshire. Absolutely no talk in the office this morning of last nights wind gusts. No wonder Joe public don't take warnings seriously, when the impact across the country is isolated incidents. 

Wish we could go back to the good ole days when a Windy day was just a Windy day instead of the media hype and naming windy periods as a storm.

Hmm, nothing isolated where the storm really hit, and the was in Ireland and Scotland and North England. This storm was very bad and deserved its name.