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Severe gales in SE overnight - please heed!

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OhYoubadbadKitten · 24/11/2012 07:31

Just saw the met office forecast for wind along the SE coast in around 3am on their map. 78mph! That is certainly of damaging strength, both to trees and structurally.

Take down or at least remove nets from trampolines and weight them down! Sort out those dodgy fences and tuck your wheelie bins away!

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I'm not going to be around this morning, please bump. Cos it could save some people a lot of hassle.

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RumBaaBaa · 24/11/2012 07:44

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Fenton · 24/11/2012 07:51

Thanks Kitten, will get busy with that today.

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purplerainbow · 24/11/2012 07:56

im supposed to be driving across to southampton and coming back this evening. Im reading it that the worst wont start until later tonight? Is that correct?

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NoKnownAllergies · 24/11/2012 08:05

Thanks and bump.

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Pascha · 24/11/2012 08:09

Eek! Cant see the warning map on my phone so I will assume that's me included in Kent? May have to get out of bed now to secure the bins and stuff.

Ho hum.

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Iggly · 24/11/2012 08:11

Bumping. We had a tree blown over in our garden from the wind the other day - that was already dead but it didn't take much. Freaked me out a bit...!

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WhoKnowsWhereTheTimeGoes · 24/11/2012 08:13

Thanks and bump, it does make me nervous. Will be keeping a close eye on the warnings.

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OhYoubadbadKitten · 24/11/2012 08:42

Correct purple, just the rain to contend with. Worst area and time fir wind 3am-6am on Sussex coast.
Am on phone, dh driving. Very bumpy and crap signal!

Couldn't sleep last night so I devised an easy way for people to work out wind direction in a storm. Close your right fist over the low pressure when you are looking at a weather chart. Follow your fingers round, see how they go anticlockwise and in towards the centre? That's the same as the direction of the wind wherever you are relative to the low.
Thanks fir bumping, you are all stars!

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HappyTurquoise · 24/11/2012 08:47

The severe weather warnings are red for tonight for a lot of the British Isles. Please follow this link and put in your postcode/town to see if you are in an area at risk.

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HappyTurquoise · 24/11/2012 08:49

Or, if you want someone else to put in a town or postcode because you're on a phone, post your request.

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OhYoubadbadKitten · 24/11/2012 08:58

that's fir floods turquoise? Please can you put that link also on to the 'lots of rain warnings' thread too where people are following the flood potential. Thanks!

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WhoKnowsWhereTheTimeGoes · 24/11/2012 08:59

I've just checked our postcode, we are not in a known flood risk area. The main problem here tends to be the street drains not coping, which is worse at this time of year because they get clogged with leaves. My particular worry is the wind because we have tall trees close to our house.

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OhYoubadbadKitten · 24/11/2012 09:00
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HappyTurquoise · 24/11/2012 09:13
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OhComeAllYeZombies · 24/11/2012 10:54

Bumping and asking a question:

Is anyone else having trouble with the MetOffice pages loading? Well, not the page itself, but the maps or whatever. Even if I leave the tab open and go back 10 or 15 minutes later it still just has the green "loading" bar up. It doesn't matter whether I click a link or go direct to the site btw.

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WhoKnowsWhereTheTimeGoes · 24/11/2012 11:06

I had that on the Ipad Zombies, on the main computer now and it opened right away.

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OhComeAllYeZombies · 24/11/2012 11:10

I'm on a very high spec laptop, WhoKnows. I had the same problem yesterday as well.

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WhoKnowsWhereTheTimeGoes · 24/11/2012 11:19

Ah, I wondered if it was just incompatible with mobile devices, obviously not then. I don't really have any other suggestions, sorry.

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OhYoubadbadKitten · 24/11/2012 11:32

On my iPad I have to go on to another tab and then back again to get met office map to load a new time slot. Very irritating.
Back in bumpy car, roads flooding.

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WhoKnowsWhereTheTimeGoes · 24/11/2012 12:02

I just picked up my phone which I left it loading on in a window a few hours ago and it had opened eventually. Hope you have a safe journey Kitten.

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GloriaSmud · 24/11/2012 13:08

It's just started raining here in Leicester.
DD1's in London on a school trip and is due to be back at Leicester train station, at 9.30pm. While I know it's going to be a wet day for them, I hope they'll have left by the time the proper gales start.

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OhYoubadbadKitten · 24/11/2012 13:22

old style met office warnings page works much better for a quick glance if its playing up for you.
Back safe and sound! Much drier away from the coast.

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OhYoubadbadKitten · 24/11/2012 13:31

Top gusts now shown by met office to be a little lower at 72mph, but remember that local topology can cause increased gust speeds and sometimes the met office under plays it a little on their maps. Still looks to be between 3am and 6am for Sussex at the worst of it wind wise.

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OhYoubadbadKitten · 24/11/2012 13:39

Still the models aren't concurring about the depth and track of the low tonight!!! As I've said before on other threads these are crucial as to how badly people will be affected. If it goes further south, then the severe gust wind field will be out over the channel and northern France. If it goes further north more will be exposed to damaging winds. a shallower solution means less wind, a deeper solution more.
Aargh!!

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