Storm Jake

[Paul]

Jake is the latest named storm - this one has been named by Met Eireann to cover the high winds later tonight and into tomorrow. Impacts on the UK will be more limited, but still severe gales possible in exposed parts of SW England and Wales. 

Another impact with this one is the threat of snow..

 

[Liam J]

Surprised it got a name! But the Irish Met have named it as Ireland does appear to be getting the strongest wind gusts and the NetWx-SR is predicting gusts in excess of 70mph for a time over the far W/SW.

 

 

6z NetWx-SR still showing some very heavy snow over N England tomorrow morning.

 

 

[Abyss]

1 hour ago, *Sub*Zero* said:

Surprised it got a name! But the Irish Met have named it as Ireland does appear to be getting the strongest wind gusts and the NetWx-SR is predicting gusts in excess of 70mph for a time 

 

Winds need to reach Amber or Orange level for it to be named and the Irish met fc gusts up to 80mph

Status Orange

Wind Warning for Galway, Mayo, Clare, Cork, Kerry and Limerick

Westerly winds, veering northwest will increase to mean speeds of 65 to 75km/h with gusts of 110 to 130km/h at times overnight in exposed areas especially in the coastal fringes with high sea also.

[Dale Hay]

I'm confused... I thought the naming was for the storms during Autumn and Winter, and correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't today the start of meteorological Spring? *confused look*

Although, saying that, I do enjoy a good storm - I've still not got over how amazing the seafront was from Imogen.

[alexisj9]

2 minutes ago, Dale Hay said:

I'm confused... I thought the naming was for the storms during Autumn and Winter, and correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't today the start of meteorological Spring? *confused look*

Although, saying that, I do enjoy a good storm - I've still not got over how amazing the seafront was from Imogen.

Still winter till the 20th meteorological wise, beginning of march is calender wise, and is the american way.

[Summer Sun]

5 minutes ago, Dale Hay said:

I'm confused... I thought the naming was for the storms during Autumn and Winter, and correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't today the start of meteorological Spring? *confused look*

Although, saying that, I do enjoy a good storm - I've still not got over how amazing the seafront was from Imogen.

Yes Its a bit confusing I agree technically its still winter until March 20th but as you say meteorological Spring also began today so they could be going by the spring Equinox

[weather09]

6 minutes ago, alexisj9 said:

Still winter till the 20th meteorological wise, beginning of march is calender wise, and is the american way.

No.  Meteorological (calendar) Spring begins today.  Astronomical Spring begins 20th March.  

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/learning/learn-about-the-weather/how-weather-works/when-does-spring-start 

[The PIT]

First and I expect probably the only storm of spring but then what do i know.

[Nick F]

Quite a potent occluding cold front wrapping around the centre of jake as it sweeps SE across England and Wales in the morning,

some strong forcing as a sharpening shortwave trough moves in straight behind the front from the NW, as shown by relative vorticity chart below

so we could see a narrow squall line develop along the front with small hail, low risk of thunder, sleet and hill snow mixed in but more importantly some strong and damaging convective straight-line winds up to 60-70 knots across SW/S UK with exposure

A fairly sharp drop in temperature as the squall clears with showers following increasingly wintry in nature, with sleet and wet snow even to lower levels in heavier showers

Even a tornado can't be ruled out across SW or Sern areas as we see a marked wind veer with passage of front combined with some modest low-level instability

so hail, damaging wind gusts, snow and even thunder possible, though tornadoes a very small risk in any one area. An interesting day in the offing from Jake ...

[Abyss]

83mph gust recorded at Mace Head Ireland 4am

52mph sustained wind recorded at Newport

[Nick F]

Gust of 81mph at Aberdaron on Llyn Peninsula of NW Wales 8am, 75mph more recently.

quite an active squall line cleared South Wales and now marching SE across SW. England, a few lightning strikes from it. Plenty of rain, hail,  sleet and hill snow showers following in across Wales, Midlands and N England, some thunder and lightning from them over northern England

imagine there must be blizzard conditions for the Welsh mountains with winds gusting 60-70mph.

[MP-R]

19 hours ago, Summer Sun said:

Yes Its a bit confusing I agree technically its still winter until March 20th but as you say meteorological Spring also began today so they could be going by the spring Equinox

When does the Atlantic storm season start from a naming point of view? Is it September 21st?

[matty40s]

Superb deep  mammatus when the cold front pushed down in Peterborough

[sunnijim]

Some very lively gusts here in the capital from Jake, compatible to anything seen this winter here.Certainly 50mph and at times a little higher.

 

[IgCorcaigh]

Winds picked up a lot in Cork during the past hour or so, 50 Kts gusts.

[Jo Farrow]

On 3/1/2016 at 5:09 PM, Dale Hay said:

I'm confused... I thought the naming was for the storms during Autumn and Winter, and correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't today the start of meteorological Spring? *confused look*

Although, saying that, I do enjoy a good storm - I've still not got over how amazing the seafront was from Imogen.

I asked Met Office Press office about this    

"Name our Storms is a pilot project between the Met Office and Met Eireann, as such parts of it are likely to change as the project develops. This was initially going to be an Autumn and Winter 2015/16 project. However, the exact end date has not been decided and so we will continue to name storms for the time being at least.

Even if we decide to continue the project through spring and summer, we will start again from A when we get to Autumn. Chances are we won’t reach Wendy, but it we do a decision will be made then what the following names will be, whether we go back to A or use the Greek alphabet as used in other naming series."

[Dale Hay]

On 02/03/2016 at 9:59 PM, Jo Farrow said:

I asked Met Office Press office about this    

"Name our Storms is a pilot project between the Met Office and Met Eireann, as such parts of it are likely to change as the project develops. This was initially going to be an Autumn and Winter 2015/16 project. However, the exact end date has not been decided and so we will continue to name storms for the time being at least.

Even if we decide to continue the project through spring and summer, we will start again from A when we get to Autumn. Chances are we won’t reach Wendy, but it we do a decision will be made then what the following names will be, whether we go back to A or use the Greek alphabet as used in other naming series."

Ah, I see.  Thank you, Jo.