Storm Eunice.

[normal rules]

I never take too much notice of the weather. Because it’s usually hit and miss.
But this storm coming our way on Friday looks like a bit of a beast.
I’ve never seen winds of 80mph + forecast for out neck of the woods as we live East coast so the prevailing south westerlies usually burn out by the time they reach us. But forecast they are. Goodness knows what the West Coast will be getting.
Stay safe folks.

[mugnapper]

In Derby, it's pissing down and blowing a gale already!

[Filo]

We need to get over Storm Dudley first, it’s a tad brisk out there at the moment

[River Don]

I think Dudley has pretty much passed over York now. A lot of gusty wind and rain but it seems to be calming down now. No damage from what I could see driving home.

[normal rules]

Dudley is not the one that will hit central and eastern parts of the UK.
That’s just the warmup act for Eunice. The met office are saying for 80-90 miles per hour winds to hit central England is extraordinary.

[normal rules]

The gust speeds for tomorrow shown on ventusky do not make good viewing.the darkest colours at midday are wind gusts in excess of 140 km/h.
Consider this. 80mph winds exert twice as much force as 60mph winds. This will be particularly evident tomorrow sadly.

[rich1471]

Well it is not supposed to hit till 7 in the morning just after the curling final finishes with GB going for gold at 6

[River Don]

Fingers crossed. Donny does seem to be right on the northern edge of the amber warning areas of the maps. With a bit of luck it might not be quite so badly affected.

It's a close thing though, they are still predicting the East Midlands will see very high wind speeds.

Just looking at the BBC forecasts, as of now they are predicting Doncaster to see wind speeds of 50-55 mph around the hours of midday but Retford to see 70+ . Make of that what you will.

[silent majority]

We’ve had no power for the best part of 3 hours here in the Isle.

[Filo]

We’ve had no power for the best part of 3 hours here in the Isle.

A power line has been brought down on Sandtoft Road not far from the Riendeer

[big fat yorkshire pudding]

We’ve had no power for the best part of 3 hours here in the Isle.

Surprised there wasn't more of this, our lights flickered numerous times but stayed on.  Did see a neighbour's flat roof fly off though.  Fascinating in some ways to see the wind grinding things down.

2 broken fence panels for me but fixable.

[River Don]

We had a fairly placid day in York until late afternoon. Then we got two or three hours of wild weather. To be honest we had it worse the other night.

It looks like it's been a rough day, particularly down south where there have been some extremes but I don't think it's been on the 1987 sort of scale has it?

[Janso]

We’ve had no power for the best part of 3 hours here in the Isle.

A power line has been brought down on Sandtoft Road not far from the Riendeer

Always knew Santa was a bloody menace.

[Bentley Bullet]

It reindeer in Bentley this afternoon also.

[silent majority]

We’ve had no power for the best part of 3 hours here in the Isle.

A power line has been brought down on Sandtoft Road not far from the Riendeer

Cheers, back on again after 5 hours!!

[wilts rover]

We had a fairly placid day in York until late afternoon. Then we got two or three hours of wild weather. To be honest we had it worse the other night.

It looks like it's been a rough day, particularly down south where there have been some extremes but I don't think it's been on the 1987 sort of scale has it?

Been a bit breezy down here, lots of power outages and police reports of 140 trees/structures come down across the roads - at least one person seriously injured from them.

I think there are two big differences to 1987, that was in the Autumn and the trees were still in leaf making them more vulnerable - and this time we were prepared for it. Or as prepared as we could be.

[Nudga]

Well it moved my daughters trampoline a bit and I had to put a coat on.

[Donnywolf]

Surprised its not been renamed Storm EU nice on here

[BillyStubbsTears]

COVID denier take.

Eunice didn't blow MY house down therefore it never happened.

[Filo]

COVID denier take.

Eunice didn't blow MY house down therefore it never happened.

Only houses that were old and had pre existing conditions blew down

[Donnywolf]

Or massive mansions which got a tree on top of them

[wilts rover]

COVID denier take.

Eunice didn't blow MY house down therefore it never happened.

It didn't fall down because of the storm. It fell down during the storm.

[big fat yorkshire pudding]

COVID denier take.

Eunice didn't blow MY house down therefore it never happened.

Only houses that were old and had pre existing conditions blew down

Independent sage now calling for all trees to be filled, just in case

[Filo]

COVID denier take.

Eunice didn't blow MY house down therefore it never happened.

Only houses that were old and had pre existing conditions blew down

Independent sage now calling for all trees to be filled, just in case

Or possibly felled lol!

[Colemans Left Hook]

Surprised its not been renamed Storm EU nice on here

and we had downpours of UKraine   everywhere as well,  more foreign interference from Putin (who needs to be putin his place)

[Nudga]

Storm lockdowns, stay safe, stay at home.

[DRFCSouth]

Power was out for a day where we are.

I suppose it could be worse. I was expecting worse especially in the south West.

[rich1471]

The weather today in Donny is worse than the last 2 days ,the wind is really getting up now

[normal rules]

Trees that fell down for any reason but within 28 days of the storm.

[belton rover]

I was a bit worried about the caravan in the front garden this morning.

It wasn’t there last night.