The dangerous wind this week. Self-help

Cat501

brilliant, will do that now Frugal - just looking at some of the graphics posted on the netweather forum, they do look scary!:eek:

Fruball

Cat501 wrote: »

brilliant, will do that now Frugal - just looking at some of the graphics posted on the netweather forum, they do look scary!:eek:

Just had a look and the snowcast for this area at the end of the week has decreased... Not to say it won't change again though.

7_week_wonder

Frugal wrote: »

Its all on the Prep for Winter board if you want to read thru the last couple of days posts.

Thanks frugal, and kittie for the original info. I am now a bit more clued up and busy thinking of various plan B's

mardatha

Netweather forums do seem to like their charts yes As long as we're aware and keep an eye on the weather sites, you never know, things might change a bit before next week.

Rummer

I am dreading poor weather, I wouldn't mind if I could stay at home however travelling to work is a worry

beanrua

fail to prepare - prepare to fail

greenbee

Listening to the wind outside I'm wondering whether it's my bins or my neighbours' that may have been blown over... But I'm not going out to check!

[Deleted User]

I was a bit horrified to hear our local weather presenter Ian Fergusson (he is very very good and always puts up pressure charts) describing fridays storm as ferocious, now that is really scary to me. The winds and rain last night were fierce but I could cope with that. Pressure is still very low and I have heated the tank and filled 2 big vac flasks. Several power lines came down eg wilts, glos, plymouth. Amazon have sent all the camping gas stuff so fingers crossed that they arrive this week. I was glad to see that a canister lasts about 90 mins. I need to do a few food plans today re using the camping stuff, the fridge and freezers will be off so I won`t want to be opening them. I`ll base my one pot meals on tins and quick pulses like lentils and my dried vegies and pasta and rice and I`ll jazz them up with hm chutneys. I`ll also be using my smallest pressure cooker

I am afraid that netweather is consistently wrong re our local weather and I am trusting my own weather station plus rain today for precipitation in a 2 hour slot

Fruball

Storm was bad in Berkshire last night - howling winds and unreal rainfall... Thankfully it all started to die down at about 7am but up to that point it was awful. It even kept me awake :eek: And I am known to sleep thru absolutely anything, inc the storm of '87 and my next door but one having a fire and the fire engine parked right outside my house with sirens and blue lights!!! lol!

The wind picked up a large piece of mdf that was outside the back door in the passage way and threw it against my back door - It sounded like someone kicking the door in :eek:

All very calm out there now and we have sunshine!

Anybody know what the forecast is for Berkshire area for the next few days? I don't fully understand weather charts but I am learning.... fast!!!

mardatha

Bloody terrible up here Frugal - just every bit as bad as last Thurs. Vicious huge gusts of wind and its snowing. I wonder why they didnt make any fuss about this hitting us cos its going to cause a hell of a lot of damage.