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  • Location: South East Sussex coast
  • Weather Preferences: Snow, storms and sun. Anything extreme.
  • Location: South East Sussex coast
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Thanks, Alexisj9 - I didn't know it wasn't active.

 

I have created a gallery of some of the pictures I took during and after the storm.

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Posted
  • Location: Coventry, 95m asl
  • Weather Preferences: Snow Nov - Feb. Thunderstorms, 20-29°C and sun any time!
  • Location: Coventry, 95m asl
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9 hours ago, ChannelThunder said:

The public and certain media outlets seem to have named Debi tomorrow themselves, when all that the system will bring to the UK is some rain and maybe a stiff breeze for the south. 🙄 Sick of seeing 'Debi' all over Facebook, and when you point out it's not true you get Metro articles claiming the MO have named it shoved in your face. 

I hope the Met Office spot all of this and do some kind of fact checking social media post to confirm that there's not a storm due tomorrow and it's definitely not named Debi!

Seeing a few nutters on tiktok pretending to be some sort of weather guru saying Debi (not even named at all by the UK Met) will slam the Channel Islands again and much bigger/stronger than Ciaran etc. They all use the same wind map as well I think from Zoom Earth. 

Another one livestreaming yesterday had a few hundred viewers I managed to briefly get his attention saying it has been named Domingoes and will impact Spain and France a lot more.

The good thing is that the Met Office social media accounts are gaining more attention, they're doing well on tiktok too so hopefully more people pays attention to them. 

 

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Posted
  • Location: Thorley, west Isle of Wight
  • Weather Preferences: Spanish plumes & stormy winters. Facebook @ Lance's Lightning Shots
  • Location: Thorley, west Isle of Wight
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43 minutes ago, Metwatch said:

 

Seeing a few nutters on tiktok pretending to be some sort of weather guru saying Debi (not even named at all by the UK Met) will slam the Channel Islands again and much bigger/stronger than Ciaran etc. They all use the same wind map as well I think from Zoom Earth. 

Another one livestreaming yesterday had a few hundred viewers I managed to briefly get his attention saying it has been named Domingoes and will impact Spain and France a lot more.

The good thing is that the Met Office social media accounts are gaining more attention, they're doing well on tiktok too so hopefully more people pays attention to them. 

 

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I really hate TikTok, and I'm not even on it 😅 I decided that at 36, I'm too old* for such nonsense.

*no offense meant to anybody older than me who uses it!

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Posted
  • Location: St rads Dover
  • Weather Preferences: Snow, T Storms.
  • Location: St rads Dover
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32 minutes ago, ChannelThunder said:

I really hate TikTok, and I'm not even on it 😅 I decided that at 36, I'm too old* for such nonsense.

*no offense meant to anybody older than me who uses it!

In the same boat here mate. My older kids use it, my eldest in London does not. My 13 year old does not.

Posted
  • Location: Highland Scotland
  • Location: Highland Scotland
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5 hours ago, Jo Farrow said:

 Yellow = be advised  Amber = Be prepared, red take action This was seemingly jettisoned by MO, with the all warnings are of Severe weather- but you need to understand the nuance of the matrix (which is hidden away) to read each colour, per event

Is there a case for:

Yellow - Adverse Weather 

Amber - Severe Weather

Red - Extreme Weather

Rather than the current matrix or the rigid Irish criteria for weather warning categories, something more akin to how the Met Office defines heatwaves, with thresholds for each region. These thresholds themselves can thus take account of the extent to whether a weather event is unusual for a given a location and factor in the severity of impacts.

At present we actually have what is effectively a 3D matrix represented as a 2D grid, where the X axis showing likelihood has to account for both the likelihood of the given weather event actually occurring and if it does occur the likelihood of the weather event actualling causing the impacts stated for the specified warning area.

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  • Location: Aviemore
  • Location: Aviemore
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10 minutes ago, skifreak said:

Rather than the current matrix or the rigid Irish criteria for weather warning categories, something more akin to how the Met Office defines heatwaves, with thresholds for each region. These thresholds themselves can thus take account of the extent to whether a weather event is unusual for a given a location and factor in the severity of impacts

I think it would need more nuance than that. For instance at the moment, with the rain we've had already, impacts of further rain are magnified, so they're going to warn about that for lower accumulations than usual at this time of year.

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  • Location: Highland Scotland
  • Location: Highland Scotland
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9 minutes ago, Paul said:

I think it would need more nuance than that. For instance at the moment, with the rain we've had already, impacts of further rain are magnified, so they're going to warn about that for lower accumulations than usual at this time of year.

That raises a further question as to whether that consideration is a matter for SEPA / EA flood warning systems as opposed to weather warnings? At the other end of the warning matrix there is an issue that Red Rain warnings cover where the rain falls, while obviously that rain has impacts until it reaches the coast and is in the sea, but that seems to be regarded as a matter for the flood warning systems rather than weather warnings. 

I realise there isn't a perfect way of doing this, but there does seem to be some inconsistencies in the current arrangements and in my opinion the over issuance of yellow warnings  in winter for light snow, frost, fog etc  when it is routine winter weather devalues the warning matrix as people no longer seem to grasp that a yellow warning could be a warning of something really bad coming down the line!

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  • Location: on a canal , probably near Northampton...
  • Weather Preferences: extremes n snow
  • Location: on a canal , probably near Northampton...
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NW France during Cieran...

 

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Posted
  • Location: Rye East Sussex
  • Weather Preferences: snow (but who doesnt like that)
  • Location: Rye East Sussex
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I’m curious why they didn’t put out a yellow rain warning for this evening, driving home from Work was horrendous, it was like driving on a very shallow lake. 

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  • Location: Coventry, 95m asl
  • Weather Preferences: Snow Nov - Feb. Thunderstorms, 20-29°C and sun any time!
  • Location: Coventry, 95m asl
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From Dan Holley.

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Posted
  • Location: Whitefield, Manchester @ 100m
  • Location: Whitefield, Manchester @ 100m
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The flipping outlooks at the end of the BBC forecasts do my head in because they only usually use the 4 capital cities.

Fat lot of good for the 30 million people who live nowhere near any of them.

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  • Location: Home :Peterborough Work : St Ives
  • Location: Home :Peterborough Work : St Ives
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2 hours ago, skifreak said:

Is there a case for:

Yellow - Adverse Weather 

Amber - Severe Weather

Red - Extreme Weather

Rather than the current matrix or the rigid Irish criteria for weather warning categories, something more akin to how the Met Office defines heatwaves, with thresholds for each region. These thresholds themselves can thus take account of the extent to whether a weather event is unusual for a given a location and factor in the severity of impacts.

At present we actually have what is effectively a 3D matrix represented as a 2D grid, where the X axis showing likelihood has to account for both the likelihood of the given weather event actually occurring and if it does occur the likelihood of the weather event actualling causing the impacts stated for the specified warning area.

The severe weather warnings are not about whether the weather will occur but about the impacts that the severe weather may have. In the video in the link from Mets that I posted earlier, the Deputy Chief Forecaster who was presenting went out of her way to explain that. 

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  • Location: Herne Bay, Kent (14 m)
  • Weather Preferences: Thunderstorms & Snow
  • Location: Herne Bay, Kent (14 m)
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Fliquet in Jersey

Original pic is from:

 

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  • Location: Jersey, Channel Islands
  • Weather Preferences: Extremes
  • Location: Jersey, Channel Islands
Posted
13 hours ago, matty40s said:

NW France during Cieran...

 

Terrifying to watch so one can only imagine what the tenants experienced, feeling wise 😮

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Posted
  • Location: Bexhill or eastbourne
  • Weather Preferences: Thunderstorms, tornadoes, and significant events
  • Location: Bexhill or eastbourne
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Got some flooding, I don’t know if it’s caused by ciarán or not.

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  • Location: on a canal , probably near Northampton...
  • Weather Preferences: extremes n snow
  • Location: on a canal , probably near Northampton...
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So has Greece now...

 

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  • Location: Fairlight,nr H,East Sussex,Hither Green,SE London.
  • Location: Fairlight,nr H,East Sussex,Hither Green,SE London.
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A final roundup on some local stats and info on the coastline of England worst effected.

I was more than a little surprised by some of the damage done locally considering my peak gust was 67mph and the nearest official station hit 62mph.

Damage to beach huts,that normally stand your 60mphish gusts.

Trees down in a fair few places,some quite sizeable ( due in part to saturated soil)

Various fences and some damage to outbuildings.

A few dislodged tiles.

Nothing to compare with France and the channel Isles of course.

There seems to be some evidence locally of gusts a touch up on the reporting between 4am and 7am.

A couple of local observers say there Ano hit 71mph and 73mph respectively,one with elevation 2 miles inland and the other with some height on the coastline.

Interested the geek in me,because the sort of minor damage seen is not in line with gusts maxing around 65mph from past experience.

Around 70mph yes.

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  • Location: St rads Dover
  • Weather Preferences: Snow, T Storms.
  • Location: St rads Dover
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2 hours ago, Thunders said:

Got some flooding, I don’t know if it’s caused by ciarán or not.

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Is that today?

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  • Location: Bexhill or eastbourne
  • Weather Preferences: Thunderstorms, tornadoes, and significant events
  • Location: Bexhill or eastbourne
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4 minutes ago, alexisj9 said:

Is that today?

yes

Posted
  • Location: Bexhill or eastbourne
  • Weather Preferences: Thunderstorms, tornadoes, and significant events
  • Location: Bexhill or eastbourne
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19 minutes ago, sunnijim said:

A final roundup on some local stats and info on the coastline of England worst effected.

I was more than a little surprised by some of the damage done locally considering my peak gust was 67mph and the nearest official station hit 62mph.

Damage to beach huts,that normally stand your 60mphish gusts.

Trees down in a fair few places,some quite sizeable ( due in part to saturated soil)

Various fences and some damage to outbuildings.

A few dislodged tiles.

Nothing to compare with France and the channel Isles of course.

There seems to be some evidence locally of gusts a touch up on the reporting between 4am and 7am.

A couple of local observers say there Ano hit 71mph and 73mph respectively,one with elevation 2 miles inland and the other with some height on the coastline.

Interested the geek in me,because the sort of minor damage seen is not in line with gusts maxing around 65mph from past experience.

Around 70mph yes.

the damages didn't seem to line up with the gusts that they said hit. you estimate of about 70mph would make more sense aswell as just how saturated the ground is.  here, the damages weren't as bad as some were expecting. 

 

some of those odd wooden pole things with he wires had come down, i think they are telephone cables or something. sticks and branches littered the pathways and roads.  quite a few trees are down in the downs, im guessing that they were probably pulled out of the ground because of how wet the soil was ( and still is ).  also inline with your damages that you seen, a few tiles were down and some TV antenna are a bit bent. everyone bins were down that i could see and there was ( and still is ) a lot of rubbish flying around.  

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  • Location: St rads Dover
  • Weather Preferences: Snow, T Storms.
  • Location: St rads Dover
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8 minutes ago, Thunders said:

yes

The ground is so saturated due to the amount of rain that's fallen, I think whatever has fallen today is accountable. Which would be attributed to storm Domingos.

Posted
  • Location: Coulsdon, Surrey 147M (asl)
  • Location: Coulsdon, Surrey 147M (asl)
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Just had a look at the pressure drop here in Cousldon when storm Ciaran arrived. The lowest pressure recorded was on Thursday morning at 955.2MB, 24 hours earlier it was 988.4 so we had a drop of 33.2MB in 24 hours so that is definately "explosive cyclogenesis".  In fact if it was to be 25hours it would have gone from 991.6 to 955.2 so 36.4MB.   Interestingly we have had a 20MB drop since 10pm last night as well althiugh that seems to have bottomed out now.

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  • Location: Thrapston | Northamptonshire
  • Weather Preferences: Severe weather
  • Location: Thrapston | Northamptonshire
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We sadly did lose an apple tree to storm Ciaran. I believe it was a  45mph gust that did it.

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  • Location: Bexhill or eastbourne
  • Weather Preferences: Thunderstorms, tornadoes, and significant events
  • Location: Bexhill or eastbourne
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29 minutes ago, The Tall Weatherman said:

We sadly did lose an apple tree to storm Ciaran. I believe it was a  45mph gust that did it.

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it might grow a bit odd now.

Posted
  • Location: Cheshire
  • Location: Cheshire
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33 minutes ago, Bazza118 said:

Just had a look at the pressure drop here in Cousldon when storm Ciaran arrived. The lowest pressure recorded was on Thursday morning at 955.2MB, 24 hours earlier it was 988.4 so we had a drop of 33.2MB in 24 hours so that is definately "explosive cyclogenesis".  In fact if it was to be 25hours it would have gone from 991.6 to 955.2 so 36.4MB.   Interestingly we have had a 20MB drop since 10pm last night as well althiugh that seems to have bottomed out now.

I hope the weather cheers up for the Veteran Cars coming through the town tomorrow morning!

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