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BleakMidwinter Community Regular

BleakMidwinter

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  • Location: Telford, c.150m asl
  • Weather Preferences: Snow, ice, cold
  • Location: Telford, c.150m asl
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. Met Office reporting 102mph gust at Blackford Hill,Edinburgh now http://www.metoffice...st_weather.html

We've just lost our first roof window - big cast-iron Victorian skylight in what used to be my bedroom and I'm a hefty lass and it takes both hands to raise it, hinged at the top, two foot by one foot - now lying flat aginst the slates above it, glass everywhere. We've jsut closed off the room and piled pillows around the door on the landing side and left it.

We're 85 foot lower than Blackford Hill but there's nothing between it and us, our attic windows look straight at it. So I'm guessing we jsut got hit by 102mph as well.

Frightening. Mum's gone back to bed and Dad's telling me to calm down :)

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Argyllcraig Rookie

Argyllcraig

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  • Location: Breasclete, Isle of Lewis
  • Weather Preferences: Loving the vaiety
  • Location: Breasclete, Isle of Lewis
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kingston bridge closed in glasgow, not sure ive heard of that before with the wind

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Soaring Hawk Community Regular

Soaring Hawk

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  • Location: Bedfordshire/Herts border 40m asl
  • Weather Preferences: Cold, crisp, calm and sunny
  • Location: Bedfordshire/Herts border 40m asl
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We have someone's window frame, complete with glass (now broken all over our lawn) in the back garden, wine bottles, cans etc rattling down the road, bins and assorted rubbish racing up and down the village, lights flickering, roof slates sliding, windows rattling and house groaning. Also large sheets of corrugated metal from the coal yards's building are being torn off. Goodness knows where those will end up; they could take someone's head off or do serious damage to a car or one of our houses. We are now being hit by a vicious squall so I'll hit send as am not sure how long our power lines will stay up. All quite scary.

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Cheggers Accomplished

Cheggers

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  • Location: Denny. (75m ASL)
  • Location: Denny. (75m ASL)
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EDINBURGH AIRPORT - ALL FLIGHTS CANCELLED

M74 - The M74 is CLOSED IN BOTH DIRECTIONS between junctions 7 Larkhall and junction 13 the A(M74). . . . . . . . CLOSED IN BOTH DIRECTIONS NORTH AND SOUTH

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Poots Apprentice

Poots

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  • Location: Peebles, Scottish Borders, 168m asl
  • Location: Peebles, Scottish Borders, 168m asl
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kingston bridge closed in glasgow, not sure ive heard of that before with the wind

Apparently, it's closed due to an overturned lorry. Shows how bad this is.

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Polar Gael Rising Star

Polar Gael

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  • Location: Comrie, Perthshire, Bonnie Scotland
  • Weather Preferences: Winter: bright & frosty/snowy; summer: hot and sunny.
  • Location: Comrie, Perthshire, Bonnie Scotland
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Currently having a 'debate' with the Met Office's Twitter person on Twitter about whether or not their red warning was issued too late. We will have to agree to differ. Now, if their red alerts service for Scotland was only as speedy as their Twitter response... :whistling:

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Cheggers Accomplished

Cheggers

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  • Location: Denny. (75m ASL)
  • Location: Denny. (75m ASL)
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EDINBURGH M9 - The M9 in Edinburgh at junctions 1a Kirkliston and junction 2 Old Philipstoun is CLOSED IN BOTH DIRECTIONS

All train services have been suspended.

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howham Rising Star

howham

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  • Location: Tarves, Aberdeenshire, 86m asl
  • Location: Tarves, Aberdeenshire, 86m asl
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Surreal here as flat calm and sunny. Dreading the wind arriving later ....

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Norrance Maestro

Norrance

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  • Location: Dundee
  • Weather Preferences: Snow, thunderstorms, gales. All extremes except humidity.
  • Location: Dundee
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Gusting over 80mph in town so I assume that there have been higher winds on the bridge. Mother-in-Law in Newport told to stay indoors as people blown over in the street. Power down there too.

Windchill must be pretty high out there. Temp is 3.8C. Pressure rising slightly to 963 mBs.

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doctormog Community Regular

doctormog

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  • Location: Aberdeen
  • Location: Aberdeen
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Surreal here as flat calm and sunny. Dreading the wind arriving later ....

I agree. It is really like being in the "eye" at the moment. Hopefully it won't be as severe here later as we should not have the Sting Jet component. I would prefer if it stayed like this though! Pressure is on the rise here now - up to 956 from a low of 955mb.

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over_the_rainbow Enthusiast

over_the_rainbow

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  • Location: Huntingtower, Perthshire
  • Weather Preferences: appropriately seasonal
  • Location: Huntingtower, Perthshire
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Has the forum been overloaded this morning lol? Wind has been skirling away here - eerie!

A question for a pro, but when should the worst of this have passed us on the east side? By lunch? It keeps lulling and then picks back up again at the mo.

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BleakMidwinter Community Regular

BleakMidwinter

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  • Location: Telford, c.150m asl
  • Weather Preferences: Snow, ice, cold
  • Location: Telford, c.150m asl
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Has the forum been overloaded this morning lol? Wind has been skirling away here - eerie!

A question for a pro, but when should the worst of this have passed us on the east side? By lunch? It keeps lulling and then picks back up again at the mo.

Dunno, but I hope it's soon as we don't want to lose any more windows or bits of roof, thanks!

It feels slightly less powerful just now in Embra Suburbia, but still bloody strong. Just went out to back to look at lost window, seems the wrench of it twisting the top-hinge has lifted slates all round the cast-iron frame, previously-smooth stretch of slates now has big hummock raised up and slates slithering, we have a sinking feeling about cost of replacement...

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Norrance Maestro

Norrance

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  • Location: Dundee
  • Weather Preferences: Snow, thunderstorms, gales. All extremes except humidity.
  • Location: Dundee
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pressure risen from 964mb to 970mb. Strongest gust was 71.7mph. I'm assuming that's the worst of it over now.

Up from 963 an hour ago to 967 here now. Temp up a degree to 4.7C and skies clearing. Still gusting though but perhaps not so strong now? Av windspeed at DSRS site fallen to 38mph so well down on earlier.

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NUT Accomplished

NUT

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  • Location: Condorrat, Cumbernauld G67
  • Location: Condorrat, Cumbernauld G67
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Not sure I can add to what people have already said but we been living here for 15 years and I never seen tiles been blown from the roof before! Wowie!

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Ladyofthestorm Aficionado

Ladyofthestorm

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  • Location: Isle of Lewis
  • Weather Preferences: Sun in summer, snow in winter, wind in Autumn and rainbows in the spring!
  • Location: Isle of Lewis
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I dont know about anyone else living on the west coast, but I am serious;y getting fed up with this wet windy cold rubbish being thrown everyday in my direction. I will be glad to be away from Skye! So much for the perishing winter some peeps had forecast.

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Poots Apprentice

Poots

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  • Location: Peebles, Scottish Borders, 168m asl
  • Location: Peebles, Scottish Borders, 168m asl
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Pressure is starting to rise here now but temp has fallen back to 4c. Still blawing a hoolie mind, but it's not as bad as an hour or two ago.

Having probs getting on here as well, keeps timing out on me :-(

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lorenzo Maestro

lorenzo

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  • Location: @scotlandwx
  • Weather Preferences: Crystal Clear High Pressure & Blue Skies
  • Location: @scotlandwx
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Drive to work today was interesting!

Trees, debris, traffic cones.

Strongest of the storms by far !

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NUT Accomplished

NUT

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  • Location: Condorrat, Cumbernauld G67
  • Location: Condorrat, Cumbernauld G67
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Still a little blowy but compared to earlier it's tranquil calm now. Some storm which is not going to be forgotten anytime soon

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glasgow-guy Rookie

glasgow-guy

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  • Location: South Lanarkshire Glasgow. Lat : 55.8N Lon : 4.1W ASL : 71m
  • Location: South Lanarkshire Glasgow. Lat : 55.8N Lon : 4.1W ASL : 71m
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all is calm now no structural damage :good:

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BleakMidwinter Community Regular

BleakMidwinter

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  • Location: Telford, c.150m asl
  • Weather Preferences: Snow, ice, cold
  • Location: Telford, c.150m asl
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all is calm now no structural damage :good:

Glad to hear it, glasgow-guy - you got off lighter than us! Been up to look and it seems when the window-frame was wrenched out of its hinge, it lifted part of the roof above and on both sides and moved some way down the slope, meaning a whacking great gap above the buckled frame for rain to pour through; plus plasterwork inside the room cracked both sides across a good ten foot. From the garden, the roof is hummocked-up all round the ex-window.

Phoned our handyman to get our name in the queue for tomorrow :)

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