knightstorm87

Praying for my sweetheart !

I sincerely hope that isn't the case, I have a beloved young lady who lives not far from Dublin so I'll be thinking of her and praying she stays safe. 80 - 90 mph would be bad enough let alone 130 - 140 :-(

When the cone is indicated black or red with a H in it this indicates it is a proper hurricane, when the cone is white with a H in it that indicates Hurricane-Force winds but that it is post tropical and therefore allegedly lost it's hurricane characteristics, but when we are talking about hurricane strength winds that can still do so much damage to claim it's lost hurricane characteristics does sound like a rather petty technicality (try telling that to the trees that are blown over or your roof after it has blown off) LOL !!

The fact that this developed into a major Category 3 hurricane so far east in the Atlantic is truly astonishing and surely a further indication if any was needed of the effects of Global Warming. It's certainly going to still be a very potent Hurricane-Force post tropical storm in the south of Ireland, there's almost certainly going to be 90 - 100 mph gusts in the most prone places like Dingle, Cork etc... possibly even something higher on exposed coastal bays. This is shaping up to be an absolute monster of a storm for the British Isles, I'm not sure we have ever seen anything quite like this although I understand from reading historical accounts that Hurricane Debbie in 1961 wasn't dissimilar. I also find it a freaky coincidence that this is going to make landfall on the 30th anniversary of The Great Storm of '87 all be it effecting the opposite side of the country and more Ireland then England. I don't envy our Irish friends tomorrow, but of course I pray that everyone heeds the warnings stays wise and stays safe especially my lovely friend Amy who lives in Carlow.

I fail to see how it would have lost all the "characteristics" of a hurricane if the winds remain at hurricane-force or there or there abouts and therefore potentially cause equally as much carnage?...

Trust the Daily Express to blow thing out of proportion if you'll excuse the pun lol.

Storm Kim-Jong (that could actually be a reality if he starts letting his nuclear rockets off)!

In '87 storm 94mph was recorded at the London Weather Centre and 108mph at the top of the BT Tower although that is obviously at quite some considerable elevation so probably not representative of gusts at street level where 80 to 100mph was more typical, in coastal regions gusts where in excess of 110-120mph.

Got to be a better option then Hurricane MayBot !

At least the names of the storms this year are mildly less comical then some we have had in the last couple of seasons like Barney and Doris lol

I assume that Irma will be retired too?...

Blimey you was jumping the gun wasn't you starting this thread back in July?... lol Well there's no doubting that autumn is well and truly upon us now what with our first significant Storm / Low-Pressure system coming through last night in Aileen and this generally unsettled and showery feel that we've had to the weather in the last couple of weeks or so and average temps coming down from the low 20's Celsius as you'd typically expect in the summer to the high teens. Having said all that one would be thinking to themselves it was quite difficult to tell where summer ended and autumn begun this year what with most of August being a terrible washout!

Knew I wasn't going mad lol Good to see you're a Corbynist #JC4PM

Wasn't there a Hurricane called Katia about 5 or 6 years ago?... I seem to remember the UK getting the tail end of it with strong winds and heavy rain particularly over Scotland if I recall correctly.

Proper heavy downpours around mid-afternoon, about average temperatures I guess but feeling chillier then that out of the sun and in the wind which today has been fresh to strong after being near-gale to Gale force last night!

Cheers, it's good to be back too :-) Now back to my original post about Aileen, I think whilst it wasn't a particularly unusual storm in terms of the strength of the wind what was somewhat more surprising was how early in the season it was and the fact that some of the strongest gusts recorded weren't where the strongest winds where forecast and therefore no warnings where officially issued for those areas. It's going to be a very interesting autumn and winter I feel, with quite a few deep low pressures coming through and perhaps some colder spells too. I'm hoping for a decent snow event this winter as it has been a good 4 or 5 years at least since we last had something significant here in that regard !

Hi Chris, my real name is Adam and I'm from Upminster. It's been a long while since I was last on here (probably last winter) when the weather got interesting for awhile, I can't remember my previous username exactly nor could I remember my password hence why I had to start fresh and create a new account but I'm quite certain that my previous username wasn't dissimilar to the one I have now! :-)

Hi guys I'm back, this is my first post with my new account :-) I thought I'd join in with the discussion about Storm Aileen, so how was it for you folks? It was nothing here to be perfectly honest, the odd 35-40mph gust in the wee hours of the morning which woke me up because my garden fence panels rattle around and bang a lot when the wind catches them, I know others have had it worse though. I was surprised to read about the 63mph gust recorded at Heathrow especially as there was no Met Office warnings in place for that region, I'm guessing there was a squall line passing through?... The rest of today has been a mixture of sunshine and blustery showers a couple of which around mid-afternoon where absolutely torrential, my work colleague said he heard thunder too although I can't say I noticed any although the 2nd downpour did have some hail in it.