Storm Eunice - 18th February

[Selliso]

19 minutes ago, khodds said:

Well when you are an hour into a red warning and it just seems like a normal windy day it is confusing! 

"Middle of the day" for worst of the forecasted wind impacts along South coast and South East.

[SnowBear]

This is the earth:nullschool estimate of how the winds are as at 8.00am.

The area circled is yet to come moving eastwards. 

[alexisj9]

5 hours ago, Essex Chelle said:

I'm laying here and in the last 20 mins it's gone from earily silent to a low roar which at first I thought was a ship in the estuary but its not its more consistent, my fence panels are rattling away!! 

That's what I heard.

[BornFromTheVoid]

The wind has gone quite wild the last 15 minutes. A new record high mean wind 78.1km/h and gust 93.7km/h (58 mph), though records are only since last December.

[Slysi100]

Nothing too crazy in South Devon just yet, windy and gusty but nothing out of the ordinary. Looks like the worse is still to come though looking at the satellite imagery. 

[mbrothers]

Getting very lively here in Newquay now. Taken a while but things definitely picking up.

[Bazza118]

i see the fastnet lighthouse recorded a gust of 107mph at 7:20.

[Chesil View]

Just moved into a new build half a mile inland from Chesil beach at Wyke Regis. Certainly starting to get a bit hairy here now. 

[Jayne aka Pembsgal]

It’s very windy here in Kilgetty, Pembrokeshire.  I’ve been awake since 2 with the wind but Eunice has definitely cleared her throat and is full roar now, it seems.  Not sure if she’s at her fiercest yet or is there worse to come.  It’s definitely lively! Stay safe all. X  

[emmett garland]

its unbelievably calm here by the sea on the coast in Dublin

[Mark Smithy]

3 minutes ago, emmett garland said:

its unbelievably calm here by the sea on the coast in Dublin

Eye of the storm right there

[sheikhy]

Very concerned this morning!!sting jet right over me once again this afternoon and shown to be even stronger!!how the metoffice havent issued a red warning for this part of the midlands is beyond me!!this could end up very bad for a lot of people!!

[Selliso]

Plenty of warnings along the storm's path beyond the UK

[Emz by the Thames]

So an hour ago I jumped in the car and drove to work before anyone else got there, stuffed the laptop and files in the car and drove home. Stuff it. I'm not taking holiday either.

On route, I was listening to 3 Counties Radio who were interviewing a roofer who was trying to get to work at a central London building site. He was at the station where he was told no trains and no replacement services - yet he was still trying to find a way to get into London to work on a roof at his bosses insistence! Madness.

[Ian Price]

1 minute ago, emmett garland said:

its unbelievably calm here by the sea on the coast in Dublin

Ties in nicely with the gfs. The calmness is moving east towards us in NW Wales before the wind will kick in again around 11 am.

[DaveL]

9 minutes ago, mbrothers said:

Getting very lively here in Newquay now. Taken a while but things definitely picking up.

Gusts have increased at Newquay from 48 knots to 63 knots (72 mph) in the last hour.

[Dreckly]

On 18/02/2022 at 08:17, mbrothers said:

Getting very lively here in Newquay now. Taken a while but things definitely picking up.

Yes very strong gusts here now North Cornwall too. 

[Lincs Observation]

Wind starting to pick up here in Lincolnshire, the odd gust in the last half hour or so but we not expecting the peak until later today.

LO

[Chris.R]

A shower just going overhead and some really strong gusts associated with it. Liverpool Airport 2 miles to my sw recording gusts to 46 kts associated with the shower.

[Mark Smithy]

1 minute ago, Dreckly said:

Yes very strong gusts here now North Cornwall too. 

Roche Point in southern Ireland just recorded 81 mph

 

[Nick F]

Blog from me on the latest for Storm Eunice:

Latest on Storm Eunice - 2 Red Wind Warnings for the south

WWW.NETWEATHER.TV

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The latest on #StormEunice which will bring damaging wind gusts to parts of England and Wales along with snow to northern areas

 

[Jayne aka Pembsgal]

29 minutes ago, JamesL said:

Well here in S Wales the wind turbines are still turning at 1300’ asl 

I would have thought they would be turned away from the wind today 

Guessing the strong winds aren't there yet then lol 

Nothing of note here nearly an hour into the red warning (we are right on the edge of it here in RCT) 

We’re getting into it in pembs since 7am

[Jake Lamparski]

There is currently no wind at all here all of a sudden 

[BornFromTheVoid]

First gust above 100 km/h for me, just hit 113.8 km/h (71 mph). Not bad for a sheltered inland spot.

[James1979]

Might be calm in many places but it's really, really windy here already - windiest I've seen in many a moon so given that this is nowhere near peak then I'd say I'm worried.  My instincts aren't good on this but I hope to have egg on my face in front of friends family and work colleagues later...