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2 minutes ago, Ross90 said:
It was during the sting jet associated with the Jan 3rd 2012 storm. I didn't measure it but local stations were into the 90s, a couple into the 100s. It's one of only 2 red wind warnings I can remember in this area. A fair bit of roof damage but actual structural damage was minimal.
I'm pretty sure mainland houses are all built to the same standard. I'm in the greater Glasgow area so not away up in the highlands...
A roof is part of a structure, is it not?
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15 minutes ago, Ross90 said:
My house has experienced 90mph with no damage, i even have those old metal sheet roofs and it still didn't blow off 70 - 80 might take a few tiles off and blow some fences over but if it's doing extensive damage then the house wasn't built very well...
Then you are lucky.
What shall we do? Rebuild our houses because they ‘haven’t been built very well’? Maybe a wall collapsing onto a child, roofs being ripped off completely and deposited into the street. Maybe people being without power for 10 days?
It’s all happened locally to me since the end of November. Some of the damage still hasn’t been repaired. This was from wind gusting between 60-70mph.
Just because it hasn’t happened to you doesn’t mean it hasn’t happened elsewhere!
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1 minute ago, Stabilo19 said:
Many inland areas in the S and SE England do not experience winds like these very often. I suppose the max, winds around London in winter wouldn't exceed 50-55 mph.
With some forecasts suggesting 70-80 mph inland, coupled with it being in the middle of a working day, then the event justifies a red wind warning IMO. There will be lot's of damage, disruption and some injuries and deaths.
I agree. It needs to be taken very seriously. My advisory would be to stay indoors until the wind eases.
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24 minutes ago, Ross90 said:
I think some people are exaggerating the severity a little bit. Yes 90mph + would be quite damaging but it's much more likely that gusts will peak around 70 - 80mph inland if that. It might be unusual for some places but you're not going to suffer severe damage from winds in that range, well not unless a tree hits your property...
Gusts of 70-80 mph will do extensive damage to many houses. Many properties still have damage from the last storm. It’ll cost millions. Daytime will make it more hazardous.
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8.0C and 65.2mm
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32 minutes ago, shawty1984 said:
They didn't question it, they disregarded it and said bin it.
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13 minutes ago, shawty1984 said:
Expensive software and expensive wages to input and decode them. The point still stands that saying something can be binned is ridiculous beyond belief.
Let's try to remember what we are doing here, we are trying to predict something that hasn't happened yet, which makes it even more outlandish of saying it can be binned.
I wasn’t agreeing with ‘bin it’. I was saying that the speed or cost of the computer isn’t the reason people are questioning the output.
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4 minutes ago, shawty1984 said:
Companies and government pay millions for super computers and software to run these models and you have some random person on the internet saying bin it
The computers may be super expensive and fast, but they’re still dumb boxes that rely on software to make them useful.
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What’s going on here then? Output from Dark Sky for Durham.
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4 minutes ago, Kasim Awan said:
The problem here is people are over worrying about the sniff of milder air to the south west before we drag in the colder air. That was always due & has little bearing on the eventual cold digging in from the ENE.
It might add a little extra moisture to the mix though, which may help with precipitation.
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12 minutes ago, TSNWK said:
DMicro details can change but the broader pattern that supports what we see at a micro level can be reasonably profiled up to around day 7 or 8
But people are still hanging their hats at the Micro level, a full week out.
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I’m surprised people continue to be drawn 168+ hrs out. People should know that things change even up to 48hrs before. If the features are still there then, get excited.
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November 1965 in Co. Durham
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I did the Memorial service on Great Gable in the Lakes in Nov 1985. It was very snowy on the tops, about 6” deep and bitterly cold. My beer froze in my rucsac.
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Where exactly did you find the link please, so I can put it right?
OK, found it in my Signature. Sorted, sorting hat.
Thanks,
Dave
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19 minutes ago, SortingHat said:
Whoops your webpage leads to an internal error message. Not sure if you catched that.
Which link did you follow?
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43.8mm has fallen in Gilesgate today. This is the wettest day here since 22nd November 2017 when 49.3mm fell in about 2 hours.
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41.6mm has fallen in Gilesgate today (up to the time of this post). This is the wettest day here since 22nd November 2017 when 49.3mm fell in about 2 hours.
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I remember it well. It was the first time i’d been to the Remembrance Day service on the top of Great Gable. Snow was a foot deep in places on the climb from Honister Pass. Temp was about -3 degC at 11am. We’d camped the night before in Buttermere and there had been freezing rain overnight. The road up Honister was lethal on foot, so we went cross country in the snow. Brilliant, brilliant day.
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Gilesgate, Durham City
7.2 degC to the 8th.
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Is anybody else getting a feeling in their water that January is going to push the all time 1916 record?
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On 07/11/2019 at 09:55, Durham Weather said:
We seem to be in one of those really wet spells at the moment that come along every so often, a bit like when the 1976 drought broke. All rain is heavy, with frequent daily totals over the 10mm mark. Here in Durham, every month since June has been wet.
June 129.7mm
July 77.7mm
August 81.5mm
September 81.0mm
October 108.1mm
November (1st-6th) 38.4mm
More rain to come over the next couple of days, perhaps 30-40mm if the forecast is correct.
Now up past 80mm for November and still only half way!
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We seem to be in one of those really wet spells at the moment that come along every so often, a bit like when the 1976 drought broke. All rain is heavy, with frequent daily totals over the 10mm mark. Here in Durham, every month since June has been wet.
June 129.7mm
July 77.7mm
August 81.5mm
September 81.0mm
October 108.1mm
November (1st-6th) 38.4mm
More rain to come over the next couple of days, perhaps 30-40mm if the forecast is correct.
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Basically the insurance industry has established a position that they'll never, ever have to pay out on.
Dave
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Storm Eunice - 18th February
in Storms & Severe Weather
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We don’t have metal roofs mate, just on cowsheds.
There were several houses had their roofs completely blown off in the last storm a few weeks back.