Storm Eunice - 18th February

[Man With Beard]

AROME 06Z ... still showing a 100mph streak from the Midlands east. 90-95mph all the way to the E Anglia coast. Will this really verify? It's in the 1987 category for any areas affected, if it does.

[Marcus_surfer]

1 minute ago, Liam Burge said:

There she is.

Scary

[Skullzrulerz]

Just had a Red Warning notification from the Met office and as soon as I clicked it was cancelled.

 

[weirpig]

1 minute ago, Jake Lamparski said:

Warning updated, no red

Yes there is  south west

[MKN]

1 minute ago, Jake Lamparski said:

Warning updated, no red

There is a red warning

 

[simonhall6]

[Mark Smithy]

There we go. The Met Office clearly agrees!! 

RED issued for north Devon and Cornwall and South Wales. I imagine other places will follow later in the day.

Edited February 17, 2022 by Mark Smithy

[Andrew snow hope]

Red Warning now west cost 

UK weather warnings

WWW.METOFFICE.GOV.UK

---

Met Office UK weather warnings for rain, snow, wind, fog and ice. Choose your location to keep up to date with local weather warnings.

 

 

[Nick L]

Simply inadequate red warning from the Met Office.

[matty40s]

3 minutes ago, Jake Lamparski said:

Warning updated, no red

This post aged well....

[weirpig]

Highest winds from the Arome,

[Sara_south_yorks]

Im so pleased my location is still in the yellow warning area, hopefully miss the worse of it. 

Stay safe tomorrow everyone! I do not envy those of you in the south. 

[simonhall6]

Most of the red warning is out at sea 

[Skullzrulerz]

1 minute ago, Mark Smithy said:

There we go. The Met Office clearly agrees!! 

RED issued for north Devon and Cornwall. I imagine other places will follow later in the day.

St Austell is about 5-6 miles from that Red Warning area.

I'm surprised that southern Cornwall isn't in the red area.

[Evening thunder]

2 minutes ago, Jayces said:

I imagine there are some deep discussions going on at the METO around this. It's been a tough couple of years for everyone and the country doesn't need more disruption if it's not warranted. I would hope there are no political drivers to the warnings but I imagine anyone in a red area would be advised not to travel unless absolutely neccesary which impacts people going to work.

Hopefully sensible heads prevail and I imagine the METO will push for a red warning if it's warranted.

I agree, despite what I have said if a red is what is needed then of course it's better to issue it and perhaps it shouldn't necessarily be reserved for the very strongest events possible .

and there we have the answer! red issued.

[Liam Burge]

Since I have now been issued a red warning I am going to take the necessary actions and make sure everything in my garden is secure. What is worrying is looking out at other peoples gardens and seeing things that can easily become flying debris.

[ChannelThunder]

I didn't know any of the models had the capability of picking up on sting jet potential. If that's indeed what they're showing, then all hail science!

[Battleground Snow]

1 minute ago, Nick L said:

Simply inadequate red warning from the Met Office.

Yes, I agree, people outside the red zone will carry on with "business as usual"

[Skullzrulerz]

2 minutes ago, Nick L said:

Simply inadequate red warning from the Met Office.

What others areas did you think that the red warning would be issued?

[Jayces]

Just now, matty40s said:

This post aged well....

Was probbaly looking at local, made the same mistake on my phone, no red showing for SW but then looking at all of the UK it appears.

[kev238]

I’m assuming there might be further red warnings to come in next hour or so

[khodds]

5 minutes ago, Liam Burge said:

There she is.

I’m literally on the edge of it.. not sure whether to come to work tomorrow in Bridgy?!

[Mark Smithy]

I suspect they will extend the Red later today to some other areas.

But it's right to issue Red for the north coast of Devon and Cornwall and South Wales. As I mentioned earlier, the overnight runs and 6z have shown an intensification and danger to life with wind gusts possible to 100 mph.

This is very dangerous.

[Stabilo19]

70mph winds in the middle of a working day in London justifies a red warning. This has been consistently modelled for days now.

[snow raven]

26 minutes ago, Nick L said:

Precisely. As others have said, the general public don't seem to be taking this seriously and who can blame them?

To be honest, the media of recent times haven't helped with situations like this.  They usually blow all potential weather disruptions with OTT headlines (like weather bombs, the UK being buried under 2 foot of snow etc) that no one believes anything anymore.  You can see why the general public don't take any notice anymore.