Friday Wind Warning- Storm Eunice

[Athy]

23 minutes ago, matty40s said:

The name disnt appear on behalf of the Met Office, it was Met Eirrean who named it, as they could see the dangers. Our Met office doesn't work weekends as no storms happen then.

Don't they really (work, I mean)?

37 minutes ago, MtB said:

 

 

A better illustration of the southern-centric nature of the mainstream news providers would be hard to find. 

 

 

I'm sure you're not serious: BBC News gave coverage to weather conditions in Scotland and in the West Country, for instance But I didn't hear any mention of this Franklin fellow. Anyway, he's here now and seems fairly well behaved.

[GUMPY]

Freewheelin' Franklin

But not this time😱

 

 

[matty40s]

River Don at Meadowhall, the River Sheaf is about to overtop as well.

[mrsmelly]

Just tried he tv and its back on. Still a tad breezy, no storms here though. Pubs open so will go check its alright.

[Graham Davis]

If anyone is on the Severn, or near it, or thinking about going anywhere near it in the next week...........

DON'T BOTHER!!

The Severn, here at the first town from it's source, is currently at the highest level it has been for 25 years.
And it is still raining!

[Rob-M]

We drove over the Avon on the M5 and that had over topped the banks.

[Guest]

1 hour ago, matty40s said:

River Don at Meadowhall, the River Sheaf is about to overtop as well.

 

The flood proection guillotine gates at the bottom of NJC are likely to be down then.

[Tim Lewis]

6 hours ago, Tonka said:

Not really London, Croydon is in Surrey or always was.

 

 

It's in the London Borough Of Croydon

 

[Tonka]

21 minutes ago, Tim Lewis said:

 

It's in the London Borough Of Croydon

 

But London is one square mile. The city of Westminster is probably bigger then London.

[MtB]

1 hour ago, Rob-M said:

We drove over the Avon on the M5 and that had over topped the banks.

 

 

The M5 has overtopped the banks? Now that really IS bad news! 

[LadyG]

4 hours ago, Athy said:

Don't they really (work, I mean)?

I'm sure you're not serious: BBC News gave coverage to weather conditions in Scotland and in the West Country, for instance But I didn't hear any mention of this Franklin fellow. Anyway, he's here now and seems fairly well behaved.

Not up North, its been snow, hail, sleet and now rain, rain, rain, rain, and more rain. See the Ribble video, floods, floods, more floods. 

[MtB]

Wind here in Wiltshire seems worse tonight than when Eunice tip-toed past on Friday.

 

Perhaps it's from a different direction. Boat is rocking like, well, a rocking boat.

[tree monkey]

Just now, MtB said:

Wind here in Wiltshire seems worse tonight than when Eunice tip-toed past on Friday.

 

Perhaps it's from a different direction. Boat is rocking like, well, a rocking boat.

I would say the same, it's been almost constant for the last 5hrs or so and constant rain for the last 3

[Tim Lewis]

32 minutes ago, Tonka said:

But London is one square mile. The city of Westminster is probably bigger then London.

 

No, The City of London Is one square mile

[bizzard]

39 minutes ago, MtB said:

Wind here in Wiltshire seems worse tonight than when Eunice tip-toed past on Friday.

 

Perhaps it's from a different direction. Boat is rocking like, well, a rocking boat.

Eunice was from the southwest, Franklin from the northwest.

[matty40s]

39 minutes ago, bizzard said:

Eunice was from the southwest, Franklin from the northwest.

Next up is Gorkev from the East...

[matty40s]

Severe flooding of the Aire, Calder and surrounding rivers. Rotherham station doing its usual impression of a canal, and Leeds railways also stopped..due to a large work barge with attached JCB fittings rail bridge.

https://www.leeds-live.co.uk/news/leeds-news/gallery/jcb-digger-floats-down-leeds-23161748

 

Over the West side, the Mersey is approaching record levels and the winds will be building up for the next 12 hours.

 

https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/orthographic=-2.31,55.35,1626

 

[David Mack]

21 minutes ago, matty40s said:

Severe flooding of the Aire, Calder and surrounding rivers.

The Upper Calder only got a little higher than 'normal' levels and is now falling. Further downstream it doesn't look to have quite peaked yet.

[Bee]

Flood barriers up at Ironbridge, house in village flooded, river really thundering along ang rising awfully quickly.

[Graham Davis]

1 hour ago, Bee said:

Flood barriers up at Ironbridge, house in village flooded, river really thundering along ang rising awfully quickly.

And the Severn at Newtown is now 4.2 metres above normal levels, the highest it has ever been recorded at, so I really don't hold much hope out for anywhere further south, especially as the Vrynwy is also running at record levels. 

[Tim Lewis]

From Facebook:

 

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[robtheplod]

Franklin seems windier than the ones last week.....

[frangar]

12 minutes ago, Tim Lewis said:

From Facebook:

 

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I saw that on a plant group. I do love how someone on the van life thread is blaming CRT….some people do have an agenda!  
 

There was a 1000l bulk fuel tank on that raft which might be an issue

[mrsmelly]

Telly came back on last evening after two days, still no mobile fones though 🤣 I bet the local 12 year olds with farcebook and only a mobile connection are apopleptic 🤣

[enigmatic]

Franklin seems a bit blowier than Eunice, though that didn't seem to stop mad people from boating yesterday.