Thursday 18th January 2007

[Kent Snow]

13.5C, mild, bright, scattered cumulus, wind from the SW.

An extremely windy day, which has brought the end to our garden fence.

[AtlanticFlamethrower]

Pressure about 990 here. Gust about an hour ago broke off a large branch, and threw a full big grey wheely-bin about three feet. That was probably 60mph gust recorded at Southend on WeatherOnline.

On a number of occasions in last half hour all the windows in the house shook for about 5 seconds at a time. Back in 1987 that happened for minutes at a time... it's a vicious storm here, I wonder what it's like in East Midlands, where gusts are 18mph stronger?

Edited January 18, 2007 by AtlanticFlamethrower

[Cymru]

Gale blowing here. Small branches falling off trees and loose objects flying around.

[Tom D]

This storm has been under-rated, gusts up to 80mph even here and we're very far inland! so windy school power has gone nd we've been sent home, almost flooded on the school field too, trees over all round, bins everywhere, the fence is shattered and lorry has been blown over on A10 bridge!!

take care people!!!!! Still the wind gusts but not quite as strong in the past half hour.

Edited January 18, 2007 by Tommy

[skipper]

Well here its realy windy at the moment. Fences are starting to be blown over our roof tiles are coming off. I heard the roof tiles come and they landed on the garage roof and went with a right bang. some peoples garage roof are coming off as well. I think where one of the worst effected areas at the moment i live in yorkshire.

[AtlanticFlamethrower]

I read my barometer incorrectly - the needle swung to the black notch inbetween 980 and 990 which must be about 985mb!

It's 990mb now, less windy also. Light rainshower.

skipper - sounds deadly. Stay safe.

Edited January 18, 2007 by AtlanticFlamethrower

[Troubleatmill]

incredible winds here in the northwest , just hit 84mph at crosby , choas for the council in Preston as trees and power lines are down

http://www.xcweather.co.uk/

[Zenarcher]

Castlebay Barra

wind direction north

wind chill 4c

outdoor temp 4c

pressure 1014

wind speed 2mph

humidity 83

weather sunny all day and dry :lol:

12pm 5c 3mph

3pm 5c 3mph

[Hebridean]

A lovely cold, sunny, quiet day in the Outer Hebrides FOR ONCE!!!

Fluffy cumulus with a light 20 mph WNW wind :lol: :lol:

[skipper]

yup staying safe been in all day and just watching it from my window.

But now the storm seemed to have calmed down alot. Not as windy.

And also heard that most of the motor ways are closed because of over turned truks.

Edited January 18, 2007 by skipper

[Kent Snow]

9.9C, scattered cumulus, wind from the W.

[M'Lady]

Very windy earlier this afternoon... we lost a fence. oops.

Still blowy with occasional squally hail showers, but not as bad as it was.

Temp 9.0c

Humidity 66%

Pressure 991mb

The lights have started flickering... am off to find some candles.

[donvanallen]

The stormy weather is dying out now in NE England

[Andy Bown]

Wow what a day!

Severe gales that have only started to ease to a 'normal' strong wind in the last hour or so, squally showers, some sunshine this afternoon and a ridiculous max temperature of 14c!

Starry skies at the moment, windy, 11c.

[Polar Continental]

Hi again everyone,

Has been an incredibly stormy day here in Burton, with winds gusting to 50mph and one gust this afternoon at 2:30pm reaching 67.6mph, also a good deal of driving rain to boot.

LAST READING AT TIME: 19:00 pm DATE: 18 January 2007.

Current Weather, overcast, less windy and dry.

Current Temperature 9.3 °C (48.7°F)

Apparent temp 4.3 °C

Maximum Temperature (since midnight) 12.3 °C at: 8:32 AM

Minimum Temperature (since midnight) 5.4 °C at: 0:30 AM

Average windspeed (ten minute) 13.7 mph Wind Direction (ten minute) SW (225º)

Windchill Temperature 6.0 °C Maximum Gust (last hour) 30.4 mph at: 6:47 PM

Maximum Gust (since midnight) 67.6 mph at: 2:32 PM Maximum 1 minute average (since midnight) 46.0 mph at: 1:45 PM

Rainfall (last hour) 0.0 mm

Rainfall (since midnight) 13.0 mm (0.51 in.) at 11:40:59

Rainfall This month 44.0 mm (1.73 in.) Rainfall To date this year 44.0 mm (1.73 in.)

Maximum rain per minute (last hour) 0.0 mm/min Maximum rain per hour (last 6 hours) 0.0 mm/hour

Yesterdays rainfall 1.0 mm

DewPoint 1.9 °C (Wet Bulb :6.2 °C )

Humidity 60 %, Humidex 7.6 °C

Barometer corrected to msl 997.0 hPa

Pressure change +2.0 hPa (last hour) Trend RISING

Pressure change (last 12 hours) +18.0 hPa Pressure change (last 6 hours) +15.0 hPa

Paul

[Terminal Moraine]

Well it wasn't quite in the league of the very worst storms I've experienced but it was a hell of a blow.

The worst of it here occurred during the early afternoon. The mean speed between 1435 and 1445 was 70 mph with a gust of 92, the highest of the day.

At 500m the mean speed over 30 MINUTES was 73 mph with a highest 30 second average of 93 and the station at Brierlow Bar just south of Buxton, at the same altitude as me, recorded a gust of 106 mph. I don't know anything about the calibration of their anemometer but normally their gust speeds are very similar to those at my station so I've no reason to dispute the figure.

The temp' is currently 6.3c after a max' since 0900 of 9.4c and an early morning max' of 10.8c.

Rainfall from 0900 to 1800, 6.4mm after 21.9 mm overnight

Sunshine today, 1.57 hrs

Wind speed is currently 29 mph W, gusting to 40, which seems like a gentle breeze after what's just gone.

T.M

[Ross B]

6c, raining and 0cm of slushy snow on the ground :lol:

pressure: 989mb

Winds 10-15mph

13mm of sleet today

[Zenarcher]

castlebay barra

wind direction north

wind chill 1c

outdoor temp 5c

pressure 1017 rising

wind speed 5mph

humidity 84

weather clear dry

[Intrepid]

Very windy and wet earlier today. Still quite windy now and cold.

Current temp: 4.9c

Todays high: 8c