South East & East Anglia Regional Discussion ~ November 24th 2012>

[VillagePlank]

Gravesend obs, 06z, mean=30mph, gust=53mph

[Nick F]

Winds slowly easing from the west now, strongest gusts in the east across East Anglia, still gusting to around 60mph over Norfolk. Just down the road from my where I am at work now, there was a gust of 44mph at Heathrow.

Must have counted nearly a dozen recycling boxes lying on the side or in the middle of the road this morning, whilst driving to work.

Edited November 25, 2012 by Nick F

[tinybill]

had a very wild night waiting for day light for any damage!!!

[Coast]

It started to kick off here in Eastbourne around 2.30 am and has been buffeting the house ever since. A slight easing at the moment, peak recorded gust here was 62mph but thankfully the rain has kept off. Looks like the GFS and other got this one about right!

[anything-but]

Well,just about to head into london down the A2 on the bike,guess i`ll hoist the main sail.

[Coast]

XC weather live reporting 54 mpph sustained in The Channel now:

[Nick F]

XC weather live reporting 54 mpph sustained in The Channel now:

That would make me think twice about tucking into a Full English on the ferry over to France this morning then!

[Coast]

That would make me think twice about tucking into a Full English on the ferry over to France this morning then!

Owww not a pleasant thought! They all seem to be working though:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/travelnews/ferry

Latest SatRep showing how we largely missed the rain:

[Jayces]

Slept through it all, was knackered.

More excited about the prospect of snow though in a week to 10 days time!

When we have had no let up though after 3 months I wonder if we will still enjoy it as much ;-)

[Coast]

ESTOFEX sounds interesting...

Storm Forecast

Valid: Sun 25 Nov 2012 06:00 to Mon 26 Nov 2012 06:00 UTC

Issued: Sun 25 Nov 2012 07:33

Forecaster: VAN DER VELDE

SYNOPSIS

An intense depression lies over the North Sea and moves slowly to northern Denmark. The pressure gradients surrounding it are very tight and produces gale conditions from eastern England to western Denmark with the strongest winds north of the Netherlands. This depression currently is wrapping up its occlusion, surrounded by a WV dry slot. Its cold front is not well defined at low levels. The mid level cold front pushes into France and Germany. No deep convection is forecast around this low.

West of Ireland lies a satellite low with comma cloud appearance which is becoming the main low as the day progresses. Cold airmass at mid altitudes advects southward over the Celtic Sea. Cold convective cloud tops (EL<-20°C) allow some thunder, but CAPE is marginal along the occlusion, better in the cold airmass. By the end of the period instability is enhanced over the English Channel and storms may affect the UK south coast. An isolated severe gust or tornado is not ruled out, but the CAPE-shear overlap is not well established (in GFS model) and lacks veering with height. In some WRF models, SREH is locally around 200 m²/s² in the unstable air in the Channel.

[suffolkboy_]

Not as windy here as forecast. Maximum gust recorded is 44mph. It was windy but certainly not damaging. Infact driving this morning to the next village, the most I saw was two very small branches down. We've had worse earlier this year.

[tinybill]

all fences standing!!!! .some arouned have gone

[Coast]

Sun's out now and beautiful clear blue sky!

[suffolkboy_]

Top gusts shown below courtesy of NetWeather's Top 20 feature. Nothing out of the ordinary for an Autumn storm. Ho hum....was hoping for a 70mph gust here....been a while since I recorded one of them

62mph - Weybourne

56mph - Manston

54mph - Andrewsfield

51mph - Shoeburyness

51mph - Marham

50mph - Wattisham

50mph - Wainfleet

49mph - Cambridge

47mph - Holbeach

47mph - Thorney Island

47mph - Northolt

47mph - Isle Of Portland

46mph - Kenley

46mph - South Farnborough

46mph - Scampton

46mph - Wittering

46mph - Heathrow

45mph - Odiham

45mph - Cranwell

45mph - Herstmonceux

Edited November 25, 2012 by suffolkboy_

[Ben_Cambs]

Had a gust of 53mph around 4:30am: currently gusting to around 45mph, temperature is 8C.

[Dexter29]

Morning guys, just woke up, didn't here a thing last night. Anyone know if Essex recorded a high gust?

Beautiful blue sky now and pavement drying ip nicely, a moderate steady breeze! Where's the gale force winds? :-(

[Coast]

The Met Office said it expected the weather to become drier and colder in most areas by the middle of the week, and overnight frost could bring the risk of some icy roads after the recent rain. It said that snow was possible in Scotland and northern and eastern England next weekend.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/nov/24/rain-pours-down-on-saturated-britain

[Dexter29]

Morning guys, just woke up, didn't here a thing last night. Anyone know if Essex recorded a high gust?

Beautiful blue sky now and pavement drying up nicely, a moderate steady breeze! Where's the gale force winds? :-(

Slept through it all, was knackered.

More excited about the prospect of snow though in a week to 10 days time!

When we have had no let up though after 3 months I wonder if we will still enjoy it as much ;-)

Me too, didn't here nothing!

Really hope we are talking about the prospect of snow this time next week. The thought of it gives me that nice warm feeling inside ;-)

[Dexter29]

Top gusts shown below courtesy of NetWeather's Top 20 feature. Nothing out of the ordinary for an Autumn storm. Ho hum....was hoping for a 70mph gust here....been a while since I recorded one of them

62mph - Weybourne

56mph - Manston

54mph - Andrewsfield

51mph - Shoeburyness

51mph - Marham

50mph - Wattisham

50mph - Wainfleet

49mph - Cambridge

47mph - Holbeach

47mph - Thorney Island

47mph - Northolt

47mph - Isle Of Portland

46mph - Kenley

46mph - South Farnborough

46mph - Scampton

46mph - Wittering

46mph - Heathrow

45mph - Odiham

45mph - Cranwell

45mph - Herstmonceux

Is that it? I was expecting to wake up with reports of 70mph +

[suffolkboy_]

Is that it? I was expecting to wake up with reports of 70mph +

Silly me....I have selected the current high gusts...go here: http://www.netweather.tv/index.cgi?action=daily;type=maxg

Only one report of 70mph - Isle of Portland....no surprise there....everywhere else, nothing out of the ordinary.

[Keraunic]

Mornin each. Wind picked up here about 5am and its still going strong and the sky is leaden. It's very windy but my indicator of very high wind is how many wheely bins are blown around the courtyard.....all here are still in place.

Have a good day everyone.

[Coast]

Met office latest observations show it is calming down now:

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/observations/

[Dexter29]

Just had a mooch around outside and I can confirm nothing happened here in Epping last night, all wheelie bins and recycle boxes are still upright and not moved, no branches or debris anywhere.

Seems the wind packed more of a punch for us on Thursday, everything was getting blown everywhere.

[Rezillo]

55.5mph max gust here so far here in Mid Suffolk, just after 6am. Similar figures to Wattisham so far and still occasionally gusting to 50mph.

John

[knightrider]

Oh it was awful, roof tiles where flying about, our road is inpassable due to fallen trees, windows have been blown out, houses are severely damaged or destroyed it was a super hurricane!!!!!!! Adam Knight reporting for The Daily Exagerate...urm hum Express!

Being serious though ok it did get quite squally about 5 or 6 this morning but nothing out of the ordinary for an autumnal weather system, probably 25-30mph mean speeds with gusts of 45-55mph, might have a few branches snaped off but that's about it! Somewhere near the coasts it might have been a little more severe perhaps 35-40mph means with 65-75mph gusts.