Preparing for Winter V

mardatha

Me too SS, if I vanish tomorrow you'll know the elect went off, I'm expecting it to. My weak spot is the freezer, its an American style f/f and useless in power cuts, wish I had got a chest one instead.

Skinny_Selkie

Aye Mardatha, I'm not looking forward to this one, the sustained wind speeds alone are pretty brutal but the 90+ mph gusts are just adding insult to injury!!:(
Hope you stay safe..............and that goes for everyone else in the firing line over the next couple of days.

Skinny_Selkie

Hi Mardatha,
I don't know if you know but the Met Office have now put out a yellow warning for snow and ice from early Sat morning through till lunchtime Sun, that's as well as the wind warnings:eek:
ps. Snow warnings appear to be out for much of the North of England too now as well.
Stay warm folks.

mardatha

Yea am watching the weather forums and goggling at the shipping forecast for the north west.. Thank god I'm not up there :eek:

Gale warnings - Issued: 0330 UTC Thu 8 Jan
Severe gale force 9 increasing hurricane force 12 later and veering westerly
Shipping Forecast - Issued: 1030 UTC Thu 8 Jan
Wind
West 5 to 7, backing south then becoming cyclonic for a time, severe gale 9 to violent storm 11, increasing hurricane force 12 for a time.
Sea state
Very high or phenomenal.
Weather
Rain or squally showers.
Visibility
Poor.

Skinny_Selkie

lol, your'e right Mardatha, it does make for some scary reading:eek:
My side (Cromarty) is forecast to get off a touch lighter.............Gale force 8 increasing to Violent storm 11 !!
My hubby is an ex fisherman and he thinks I'm mad for worrying about a "wee blaw o' wind" as he puts it!!

mardatha

On the shipping radar there's a couple of west coast trawlers heading right out into it now, west of Fair Isle!

Skinny_Selkie

Hardy souls!!
Supposing I had to tie him up and keep him prisoner in the house I swear I'll never let the hubby go back to sea.................too many sleepless nights and bitten fingernails:(
Out of all the crap weather systems we get I hate the wind most, scares the heck out of me:eek:

mardatha

My dad's family go back generations on the boats (Anstruther and Pittenweem) SS, I know how dangerous a life that is.

icontinuetodream

hope everyone is safe and well...:grouphug:

mardatha

SS are you ok? 17000 without power, but amazingly ours stayed on.
Was reading the Scots weather forum and needed to copy this ok -
First post:
Hi Desperately need to know whether the worst has hit the isle of Lewis as mum needs to know whether to make a run from her house as her windows have blown out n the roof may go as well?

Then:
Mum has been forced to make a run for it as the roof is gonna go with 3 of them stuck in the house she's calling 999 to help as she also has 2 dogs there.
Edited: she's been told to stay put by the police don't think even they can risk it either