knightstorm

Travelled to my auntie & uncle's place today who live in Little Chalfont and there where a few fleks of snow at 11am this morning, and further light flurries thoughout the afternoon although mostly clear and sunny. Comming back at between 5.30 and 6.30 this evening ran into the first quite heavy showers, drifting in crosswind. By the time I got home it was starting to settle and now has begun accumilating, already about an inch! Between 4 and 8 inches forecast for my area by tommorow morning, than the 2nd wave arriving tommorow afternoon it wouldn't surprise me if 1 or 2 spots got a foot or more.

What about that big storm in Scotland a few years back? 2005 I think it was! Sureley that was a 5/5 severity level? with winds topping 120mph!

Looks like this is gonna avoid Florida and hit south Carolina, but I would imagine it would have weakened a fair bit by the time it gets there!

Not alot of wind truth be told although it was abit breezy 1st thing this morning, but my god have we had some rain. A deluge is the only word that springs to mind! Although it has stopped momentarily.

It dosn't appear to have enougth time to build that much strength before it reaches the west coast! Although some maps can be diseptive so it's probably alot further than it looks! At the moment I can't see this developing into a hurricane, but it might produce storm force winds nonetheless!

I think this one will be simular in strength to what Gustav was when it hit the Gulf coast!

I think it's quite possible, and if they do merge together we'll have 'The Perfect Storm'

This is brewing up nicely!

Thank god it wernt as powerful when it got to New Orleans!

Boy did it rain this morning, it was a deluge! Cant say there's been any showers this afternoon though, just very overcast!

Yeah I think your right there Steve, especially with the temperature of the sea it has to pass over. There isn't much tropical moisture between it's current location and where it needs to get to!

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/corporate/pres...02.html#content Hurricane season in full swing 2 September 2008 As Hurricane Gustav continues to weaken, attention turns to the east with Hurricane Hanna and Tropical Storm Ike strengthening over the Atlantic Ocean. The wind speeds associated with Gustav peaked at around 110 miles per hour as the eye of the storm passed over the Louisiana coast. Despite the easing wind, heavy rain is still falling with a continued risk of flooding. Early September usually marks the peak of the Atlantic tropical storm season and 2008 is proving no exception. Hanna is currently a Category 1 hurricane with wind speeds of near 80 miles per hour and higher gusts. The predicted path currently takes the storm through the Bahamas, then east of Florida and on towards the coast of Georgia and South Carolina. The Met Office provides forecast information of tropical storms and hurricanes from its unified model twice daily to its colleagues at the National Hurricane Center (NHC) in Miami. This valuable information is used by forecasters in the NHC when compiling the official forecasts of track and landfall of hurricanes and tropical storms such as Gustav, Hanna and Ike and the issue of warnings to affected areas. The Met Office has a responsibility to protect the lives of British citizens abroad and issues regular briefings to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) for tropical cyclones around the globe throughout the year. In addition the Met Office provides forecast information to humanitarian agencies and the insurance industry, giving advanced notice for mitigating action. The latest forecast tracks can be found at the <A href="http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/" target=_blank>National Hurricane Center website.

This system has plenty of time do develop as it crosses the Atlantic, things could get intense as we head towards the weekend!

Overcast with drizzle, earlier this morning it bucketed down and was quite windy too. Looks like autumn has arrived well and truely as it's quite cool aswell!

Peak winds due to hit New Orleans within the nxt hour! I think it could get alot worse before it gets better but I still don't think we're looking at the scale of devastation that Katrina caused!

Apparently winds are supposed to peak around 8 in the evening UK time!

According to Newsround it hasn't properly reached New Orleans yet! I thought it had, huh!?

No way has it passed, it only officially reached New Orleans about 4 hours ago!

Blimey this is sounding more and more like 2005, battern down the hatches until christmas I say! lol

The next few hours are going to be critical!

Judging by this I'd say mainland Florida is in the firing line for this one!

Isn't this Hanna than? Or is there another one on top of that?

Forgeting all the technical data, my observation for August is that it was CRAP! Lol

The opposite thing happened in the build up to the 1976 heat wave, my auntie & uncle told me that the last week of May it was -4 celsius, and the day they got married in the 1st week of June it was 80 farenheit!

Yeah but that 76mph is just a gust recorded at a particular point, it's probably one of the weaker gusts it dosn't represent the strength of the peak gusts, I reckon more like 120mph+ around the eye wall!