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  1. lottiekent
    It’s gone crazy here last hour. Was woken in the night several times by the rain battering the windows and saw some lightning flashes. Pressure on my own station currently 959mb (have cross checked this with others in Folkestone and all reading 959 - 960)
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    Anyone central southern south coast are at the centre of the low at the moment so as you know, that means winds are calm for the moment.
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    We get it, you don’t want to go. Most of us don’t want to go to work either if that helps. Pressure down to 978 on my station, steadily dropping away
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    Yes, had a couple of noisy gusts since the rain arrived! The highest winds aren’t supposed to arrive until the early hours of the morning, so why people are already saying it’s all over/a bust etc I don’t know.
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    I think you’ll be ok and fair better than us on the south coast
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    Looks like they’re thinking 50 - 59mph gusts for you Manston (Kent) weather WWW.METOFFICE.GOV.UK Manston 7 day weather forecast including weather warnings, temperature, rain, wind, visibility, humidity and UV
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    An interesting post from an amateur French forecaster on Twitter, who mentions there could be a sting jet forming:
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    That’s the issue I suppose, they just don’t know still. Issue it too early and nothing happens everyone is annoyed. Issue it too late or not at all but the winds hit they’ll get even more stick
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    Reckon they’ll issue a red warning?
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    Met Office has increased our max gusts again to 73mph now. Anyone think they’ll issue a red warning anywhere?
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    Hey SJ - I’m still on the fence about how bad it’ll be. As we know, and as you say, a 60 to 70mph isn’t unusual for us here so that wouldn’t cause too many issues. Cant remember what sort of speeds we experienced last year during Eunice but they ripped the roofs off the garages across from our house and snapped a few smaller trees.
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    Same. We’ve sorted the garden and candles out yesterday just in case. My son’s school is still open for now. Not happy for him to walk in as usual tomorrow as he goes through an area with lots of trees. So it’ll either be mum taxi or say stay at home if I don’t think it’s safe
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    I’m the same - the desire for an extreme weather event vs people/property staying safe. My dad is also a bit of a weather nut and lives in Capel about quarter of a mile from the cliffs. The fact him and my step mum live in a mobile home type bungalow isn’t ideal! But he’s keeping a close eye on things and so can come down to town if needs be to me or my sister.
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    @alexisj9 and I will be holding onto our hats Thursday for sure
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    I really can’t remember much about storm Jude in 2013! Eunice last year caused a fair bit of damage locally, with garage roofs being ripped off and trees down. The worst ones I can remember (this’ll age me!) is the great storm of 1987. We got the day off school and had no electricity for a day or so, my mum and dad took us out the next day to look at all the damage like the ferry being washed ashore. Then there was another big storm in 1990. We got sent home from secondary school at lunch because there had been a warning issued and the buses were stopping, but it was already really windy at that point and was actually quite dangerous with some of the girls being blown over on the way home!
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    I feel like we often get the strongest winds after the event here in our SE corner? It’ll be windy, it’ll calm a little and then we get a last strong blast
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    As it stands, high tide here is 6.8m around 1pm when the strongest of the winds are forecast.
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    I am under no circumstances forecasting another 1987, but the similarities between last night’s fax chart and the 6am fax for 1987 are similar. The image for 1987 is taken from the Met Office write up of the storm, link for anyone who fancied a read https://blog.metoffice.gov.uk/2012/10/12/how-did-the-great-storm-of-1987-develop/
  19. lottiekent
    45.5mm so far today and 18.29mm yesterday so roughly 66mm overall from this system. And I see they’ve just issued an amber warning from 9:30pm until 1am for the IOW east towards Dungeness for all that rain moving across the Channel
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    Just saw this one on Twitter too and found the corresponding street view on Google maps. It’s crazy how much damage has been caused
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    Tropical Cyclone Tej has caused flooding in parts of Oman and Yemen, with up to a years worth of rain falling in several days:
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    0.7mm of rain since midnight and quite breezy from the south this morning. Warm too at 16c. Very quiet on the main forum, thought everyone would be up and analysing the latest outlook for the rainfall across the UK but barely a peep since yesterday.
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    27.1mm since 3pm and also warm. Wish it was cold and clear
  24. lottiekent
    Much more rain here than I was expecting. Currently at 27.1mm and quite warm again for a while earlier when the rain was at its heaviest (for the time of year). Have a newly discovered leak in the flat roof above our porch/downstairs loo thanks to today’s rain. Need to do an emergency patch job on it tomorrow before it really gets going on Friday!
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    And this on top of what fell on large parts of Scotland recently too. I imagine the ground is pretty water logged already.
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