Weatherwise

[Penny]

Morning all, a very miserable morning. Dark clouds, windy and very cold. Is it the same where you are. Keep warm.

cheers Penny

[vannin]

Yes, the same here. One cat and one owner keeping each other warm!

[Penny]

Lucky you, wish I still had both or one of. cheers Penny

[laurie53]

Bright spring morning here. Forecast isn't good, but so far everything's fine.

Windows open, fan going and the heating switched itself off an hour ago.

[laurie53]

Amber warning for wind tomorrow (disruption and damage), so it'll be Waltz of the Wheelie Bins again!

I've been given an emergency number for power cuts. That'll be Dudley.

Eunice is going to be even worse but I believe that is mainly going to be in England.

Good luck!

[Penny]

Hope you are O>K> Laurie. Are you missing the winds. fingers crossed Penny

[laurie53]

we seem to have missed the worst of it in this little corner, but there's been power cuts and travel disruption elsewhere.

Now we have to wait and see what Eunice brings. I think we're likely to get snow rather than high winds, but I doubt if I'll see so much as a flake.

I just don't believe some people.

After all the forecasts and warnings, amber warning which was only lifted at midnight, and the yellow warning which is still in place somebody rang the BBC before 7 this morning and complained their early morning train had been cancelled and they have to wait half an hour for the next one!

I suspect that many commuters down South face that sort of thing regularly without the assistance of spring tides and 90 mile an hour gusts on coastal routes!

Probably believes overhead power lines can be restrong and trees removed from tracks miraculously within minutes of the wind speed falling.

[Penny]

Beautiful and sunny morning here but very windy. Keeping fingers crossed that we don't get the heavy winds promised. cheers Penny

[laurie53]

Forecast of heavy snow or not, I've still got the window open and the fan going in the bedroom!

[vannin]

As forecast locally, this middle of today is sunny and the wind dropped - temporary I know!! I judged my little escape just right, to collect my dry-cleaning - two days late because the weather put me off before today. Batten the hatches for Eunice tomorrow, my daughter cancelled a trip to here by train and she is right to do so, the trains are disrupted as Laurie said, and I would be worrying.

[Penny]

Just sitting for lunch, ignoring the noise but the wretched wind blew down a tall piece of our fencing. I do so pity folk who are getting the stronger end of this gale.
cheers Penny

[vannin]

High Wycombe is on Red warning. The taller conifers at the front are a worry especially one which appears to nudge the telephone line when the gusts are strongest. Roof tiles are staying-put so far but if any are blown down, it will be the first time in decades.

[Penny]

Such a shock. Did not realize we were to continue with this weather, sat here watching the trees shaking like mad and then a cloud burst of rain, so heavy could not see a think thro' the window. Seems we are in for several days of this. Did anyone else get the same.
cheers Penny

[vannin]

Hi Penny, still bad here. I have described my (Storm Eunice) situation in some detail on the 'Dita and All' thread and am keeping fingers crossed.

[laurie53]

High Wycombe is on Red warning. The taller conifers at the front are a worry especially one which appears to nudge the telephone line when the gusts are strongest. Roof tiles are staying-put so far but if any are blown down, it will be the first time in decades.

Hope you survived OK.

Being ex RAF I often wished death and destruction on High Wycombe, it being the headquarters of Strike Command, but it was never personal!