38mbs in 24 hrs

[drawp]

At our location, 60º30' N; 001º50'E, the barometer dropped from 1005mbs at 03:00hrs 21.02.02 to 967mbs at 03:00hrs 22.02.2202 - 38mbs in 24 hours. Would that be described as falling rapidly or as in freefall? The pressure has gone even lower since then but I haven't been game to look.

 

[kimhollamby]

That might be described as "where's the bomb shelter" or "thank the Lord I'm ashore" (are you?)

Pinned to my wall right now is a copy of the synoptic from three weekends back when a 930 low passed across the top of Scotland...

Stay safe.

Associate Publisher ybw.com websites kim_hollamby@ipcmedia.com

 

[claymore]

I guess that will blow dogs off their leads.
regards
JohnS

 

[Viking]

My location is to the north east of you 62 30N 006 20E its OK here - at the moment!

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[drawp]

Kim. I'm offshore halfway between the Shetlands and Bergen but at least I'm on a substantial 30,000 ton oilrig . Spare a thought for the crew of our standby boat which is only 33 metres long and 630 tons displacement. A couple of points that you might find interesting re that low you mentioned. I wasn't on board but the rig recorded winds of 90 knots with gusts to 100 kts that night. Also there is a waverider bouy south of the Faroes which recorded a significant wave height of 14.2m - their highest ever reading.

 

[kimhollamby]

You might be on legs but I'll spare a thought for you anyway...along with the crew of the support ship. Hell of a weather pattern and not the only one to come your way in the winter but certainly the hairiest I would imagine.

Me, in the office I live 23 floors up facing west (so into the weather quite a bit of the time) but surrounded by a lot of concrete and glass. Never felt the building sway either, which I'm note sure is a good or a bad thing.

Walked across the infamous swinging Millennium Bridge downriver and that didn't sway either, despite about 25-30 knots wind, half a Chinese army crossing and almost as many cameramen and roughened up presenters. Obviously we lead very unexciting lives down here!

Associate Publisher ybw.com websites kim_hollamby@ipcmedia.com

 

[Guest]

Are you at The Wharf, Kim?

If so, you're not the only habitue of these boards to work up there (not me any more - I used to climb up the tower, but the publication that was kind enough to employ me moved across the docks after getting a divorce from its sister tabloid) But the bridge isn't downriver from there, is it?

I'm sitting in the City basement of a.n. other media organisation and laughing at those very same presenters as the ob feeds come in...

 

[Guest]

During Billy Connolly's World Tour of Scotland when he was in the Shetlands he said that sometimes the weather is so wild up there that when a dog lifts it hind leg somwhere on the islands somebody in Norway gets dog's p** in the face a day later! Is that the sort of weather you have? Think I'll stay in Cornwall.

 

[ccscott49]

I'm on the ekofisk right now and we have 80 knot gusts, with 13.4 wave hieght, its no fun! Glad I'm not outside at present.

 

[drawp]

Fortunately for us the weather we actually experienced wasn't as bad as first forecast. But the impressive feature of the complex low behind it all is its sheer size. Centred across Scandinavia, it's influence extends from nearly 40º W to 30ºE and from 45ºN to 85ºN. That is one hell of an area.

 

[kimhollamby]

No, King's Reach Tower immediately upstream and south of Blackfriars Bridge.

Best OB out take for me on the Millennium Bridge was the guy for finally managed to get his three pars out, only to have the last two sentences ruined by 20 12-year-old schoolgirls in full uniform deciding that was the right moment to say hello to mum with a finale of the prod guy losing a clipboard full of paper that then flew straight across his face. Not much fun for him, great fun for us.

Associate Publisher ybw.com websites kim_hollamby@ipcmedia.com

 

[Guest]

It's been so windy over here in Ireland this past week that yesterday one of my hens layed the same egg three times.

 

[Guest]

Being a techno geek, I thought the subject line meant you had downloaded 34Mbytes in 24 hours which really wasn't anything to brag about unless it was with a mobile phone.

Glad you are there and not me!! As a matter of interest what do the oil rigs use for internet access? Satellite? Pigeon?

 

[Guest]

Sorry, I meant 38 not 34....

 

[drawp]

Satellite into the company's network but it is s-l-o-w. Not quite as bad as 38Mbytes in 24hrs but not much better.

 

[ccscott49]

This is not the worse weather I have seen out here, I was out here one winter when we had 20 meter waves and winds gusting 85 knots, that was real fun, I was on a floater that time! the waves were breaknig over the winch towers, 30 meters above normal sea level, we ahd to detact from the well head and hang on, no helicopters will work in those winds, so we were on our own, a touch hairy. 2182 sounded like radio one, with maydays going oput all over the place. Shouldn't go on, will get accused of war stories!

 

[ccscott49]

We have a dedicated sattelite link, I have access anytime, courtesy of Phillips Petroleum, apparently they rent space on the satellite and can have as many lines as they want, so its cheap, we also have unlimited telephone calss international, very rare in the oilfield, even in the UK they won't allow that, tight bas-----ds! With the obscene profits they make a couple of thousand a month for phone calss is nothing, tax deductable anyway! Just bloody minded! Bean counters!

 

[Guest]

Perhaps you should apply for a job on the Phillips rig?