Northwest Weather Discussion - Dec 2023 onwards

[weatherobsuk]

Typical, as soon as the camera was out to record some timelapses the lightning died off  i'm not going to complain though as that was quite unexpected seeing some distant flashes out west towards Merseyside.

[Kasim Awan]

EF2/EF3 tornado has hit Stalybridge tonight.

[weatherobsuk]

Quite the damage in Stalybridge  

[matty40s]

Windiest night I have ever experienced on the boat....had to completely close stove down, and have had a thermal roof hatch ripped off roof.

It was the violent individual gusts that have been different, luckily, I tied extra lines to secure boat 2 days ago!

Edited December 28, 2023 by matty40s

[Weather-history]

More rain has fallen during the second half of 2023 than during the whole of 1996 for the region.

[Rush2019]

46 minutes ago, Weather-history said:

More rain has fallen during the second half of 2023 than during the whole of 1996 for the region.

Do you think the region for the whole of 2023 will make it into the top 10 for rainfall amounts?  

Few spits of rain earlier, there's blue sky at the moment, 8.8°C.  

[Jan]

Doesn't appear to be any damage where I am, I was woken about 2am, the house was shaking with the wind. Bright and sunny morning still a bit breezy

[PennineMark]

The rain train just keeps on coming. Yesterday's rain took us over 1600mm for the year. That's 300 to 400mm above an average year. We're also sat on just over 230mm for December, and if the rest of the month pans out as forecast, then that'll get above 250mm and be the wettest month of the year. With its constant low light and the inability for surfaces to dry out, December is a poor month to have so much rain. 28 days in and only 3 dry days. Grim. 

[Chris.R]

Interesting Liverpool Airport TAF. Thunderstorm with heavy rain and squalls with cumulonimbus and gusts up to 58 mph from 1000-1200. same at Manchester just an hour later.

I don't recall seeing squalls before.

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[iand61]

1 minute ago, PennineMark said:

The rain train just keeps on coming. Yesterday's rain took us over 1600mm for the year. That's 300 to 400mm above an average year. We're also sat on just over 230mm for December, and if the rest of the month pans out as forecast, then that'll get above 250mm and be the wettest month of the year. With its constant low light and the inability for surfaces to dry out, December is a poor month to have so much rain. 28 days in and only 3 dry days. Grim. 

Aye without that dryish spring we’d have been up there with the wettest years on record

[raul_sbd]

Best Xmas present!!!

[Weather-history]

32 minutes ago, Rush2019 said:

Do you think the region for the whole of 2023 will make it into the top 10 for rainfall amounts?  

Few spits of rain earlier, there's blue sky at the moment, 8.8°C.  

It has, just a question of where in top 10 it will lie.

[WillinGlossop]

9 hours ago, Kasim Awan said:

EF2/EF3 tornado has hit Stalybridge tonight.

Not far from couple of our rentals… just been looking online… jeez quite a bit of damage… poor people… 

8 hours ago, toggerob said:

Quite the damage in Stalybridge  

See Huddersfield Road closed due to fallen trees… backs onto one our properties… 

 

Storm Gerrit: 'Tornado' damages 100 homes in Stalybridge

WWW.BBC.CO.UK

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Roofs are torn off houses, trees are blown down and walls collapse in Tameside during Storm Gerrit.

 

Edited December 28, 2023 by WillinGlossop

[A Face like Thunder]

Too far south to be directly affected by the wind and thunder last night, although it was very blowy at 11pm. Very wet underfoot this morning, suggesting heavy overnight showers, although these had cleared to a bright start this morning. However, clouds building up again and I suspect we shall be in for a day of showers again. 

[Chris.R]

Haha a localised tornado. As opposed to a countrywide tornado  then. I get it.

Edited December 28, 2023 by Chris.R

[Joe Snow]

Some dramatic pictures of the Tornado  coming out of Tameside/ East Manchester last night and at an awful time of year to have your home damaged/ destroyed - just missed the edge of the supercell system here in Cheshire as it tracked north towards Gtr MCR. 
 

Was woken up by a squally shower around 7:30, some glimpses of brightness interspersed with some further showery rain this morning. Like many across the region I think many would welcome some drier, colder weather into the New Year but will January deliver? ️  

[Scuba steve]

Had some Thunder earlier 5 am ish thankfully nothing like that

[iand61]

29 minutes ago, Chris.R said:

Haha a localised tornado. As opposed to a countrywide tornado  then. I get it.

Aye BBC website are calling it a small Tornado.

not very small for the poor folk who now have seriously damaged homes and property and why did they need to put speech comma’s on Tornado unless it’s the politically correct written way of putting that bloody annoying so called in front of everything they’re not sure about.

back to today and what happened to a drier and brighter day

Wall to wall cloud since daybreak here and heavy and at times torrential rain for the last couple of hours

thankfully it’s a day for inside jobs.

[Chris.R]

Look out Blackpool and Morecambe Bay

[Scuba steve]

1 minute ago, Chris.R said:

Look out Blackpool and Morecambe Bay

Spotted that look’s dark out to sea

[WillinGlossop]

1 hour ago, WillinGlossop said:

Not far from couple of our rentals… just been looking online… jeez quite a bit of damage… poor people… 

See Huddersfield Road closed due to fallen trees… backs onto one our properties… 

 

Storm Gerrit: 'Tornado' damages 100 homes in Stalybridge

WWW.BBC.CO.UK

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Roofs are torn off houses, trees are blown down and walls collapse in Tameside during Storm Gerrit.

 

Just heading over to stalybridge one of our house’s chimneys collapsed tenants were moving in today

[Scuba steve]

2 minutes ago, WillinGlossop said:

Just heading over to stalybridge one of our house’s chimneys collapsed tenants were moving in today

Not good is it a gable chimney falling away from property?

[Chris.R]

5 minutes ago, Scuba steve said:

Spotted that look’s dark out to sea

You should hear Thunder soon although getting less frequent.

[Chris.R]

Died

[Scuba steve]

1 minute ago, Chris.R said:

Died

Never heard anything to windy