Gales - Stormy For Some Areas - Thursday - 6th October

[ZONE 51]

Today there is the risk of damaging winds in places, gales are likely to affect many areas away from the storm zone, warnings have been issued, trees are quite leafy so a risk of falling trees, damage to some structures is a possibility, most areas seeing very windy weather rather than any damaging winds but Northern Ireland , Wales , Northern England and Scotland would see High Winds in many places, for the South it is likely to be a very gusty day here to, a swath of winds moving through the high risk areas could be enhanced by convective activity so increasing the risk of damage, please see warnings for the areas of risk, i have drawn up a risk map-this using wind strength charts using the main models.

the map covers thursday and possibly into the early hours of friday to.

Convective activity is likely for many, this would produce torrential rain, severe squally gusts, hail, there is a seperate thread for this, please use this thread to chat/discuss the winds today.

-Gale Risk Map

next is the surface pressure charts

-UKMO

-ECM

-GFS

NAE precipitation - below

-NAE precipitation

next is the GFS Jet Stream 300hpa

data - UKMO/ECM 12z - GFS/NAE 18z

[ZONE 51]

If the gale map wont load or is to big please try this small file size-gif

[kold weather]

I have noticed it being quite windy out there, really taking the edge of the temperatures thats for sure!

[Skyscape]

Just saw a funnel cloud form over me, with high winds

[wimblettben]

Your forecast map for us in the Southwest has been pretty much spot on ESS. A typical windy day it has been down here.

[Cookie]

60 mph here higest wind speed, not quite as windy as Monday. still nothing of any worth while note!

[Liam J]

66mph the max gust this afternoon, with frequent gusts 60mph+ for a time, A noteable wind event.

[Cookie]

66mph the max gust this afternoon, with frequent gusts 60mph+ for a time, A noteable wind event.

depends where you live I suppose!

[Liam J]

depends where you live I suppose!

Where better to live than your location if you like wind!! LOL

Everyone has different perceptions I suppose, 60-70mph I class as noteable as that is a powerful windspeed to experience without putting myself in danger.

Only experienced winds gusting 90mph+ once or twice here and that was awesome and very exceptional!! Oh and pretty scary! You are probably used to that...

[The PIT]

Pretty quiet here Max gust 45 mph.

For me 60 mph nothing special 70 mph getting interesting 80 mph watch the roof 90 okay who's roof is it in my garden.

[Aaron]

Had 98 mph winds here in 1990, 98 mph was the official gust in Leeds city centre.. what a crazy event!

[Liam J]

What was the max gust recorded today in the UK? St Bee's head here on the Cumbrian coast recorded 66mph @ 18.00 on the meto observations and XC weather.

Top 5 gusts recorded.

Cairngorm 1245m 80mph

Aonach Mor 1130m 67mph

St Bees's 123m 66mph

Machrihanish 10m 66mph

Crosby 9m 61mph

[nodrog]

My weather station stats for today: MAX GUST 54.8mph

South Shore, Blackpool, ENGLAND — Current Conditions

Daily Summary for October 6, 2011

[Cheeseburger]

A great weather day here today.

Strong winds/gusts with heavy rain/hail showers

Now we have as above, but with thunder/lightning

Weather with attitude

[itsnowjoke]

Well windy here almost as bad as three wks ago

Roll on winter.

[wimblettben]

Had a max gust of 31mph in the garden during a passing shower in the evening.

[Liam J]

Still very windy here, WNW winds gusting up to 60mph and a bit more.

[ZONE 51]

A very windy day it was! even where i am it was very gusty, and Heathrow recording 47mph on the day! - saw this on MetO mobile latest weather reports late in the day-and its shows on the map as the highest gust, i think it was when the squally showers come along late afternoon with convective gusts, that was when we had the most gusty weather of the day here, saw soon nice fluffy anvils and dark skies.

here is the highest gusts recored on the day of gales

http://www.weatheronline.co.uk/weather/maps/current?

if you would like a chart of winds then use this link below and can change the times to see what was the strongest gust at that hour.

http://www.weatheron...akt&R=310&CEL=C

the 47mph gust at Heathrow was 1600hrs going by above link, that is very windy for these inland se areas!

[wimblettben]

A very windy day it was! even where i am it was very gusty, and Heathrow recording 47mph on the day! - saw this on MetO mobile latest weather reports late in the day-and its shows on the map as the highest gust, i think it was when the squally showers come along late afternoon with convective gusts, that was when we had the most gusty weather of the day here, saw soon nice fluffy anvils and dark skies.

here is the highest gusts recored on the day of gales

http://www.weatheronline.co.uk/weather/maps/current?

if you would like a chart of winds then use this link below and can change the times to see what was the strongest gust at that hour.

http://www.weatheron...akt&R=310&CEL=C

the 47mph gust at Heathrow was 1600hrs going by above link, that is very windy for these inland se areas!

Well we certainly didn't get winds that strong here so the 47mph gust was probably due to some passing convective showers.