Gales at the weekend?

[simonjk]

Hi,

Things are starting to look very windy for the start ot the weekend with a risk of some severe gales affecting much of the country.

Current predictions suggest the track of the low pressure will be close to Ireland and then into Scotland early on Saturday. We then get left with a brisk and showery southwesterly flow, before yet anotuher deep low arrives in southern Ireland late on Sunday.

It could be that most of the country is lucky and we get a weather window between these two lows when winds will typically be a F5 or F6, at least from the middle of Saturday onwards.

Above our heads the jet stream is over southern England and Wales with the classic left exit region of the jet stream over Ireland and Scotland, hence the rapid deepening of the area of low pressure.

Will keep you up to date on this one.

Simon

 

[Daedelus]

Above our heads the jet stream is over southern England and Wales with the classic left exit region of the jet stream over Ireland and Scotland, hence the rapid deepening of the area of low pressure.

Simon

Well I just hope you are going to explain all that lot in Reading in Feb. Classic left exit - pursued by a bear ?

 

[wotayottie]

Im hope the lull is on Sunday since we are racing then, but the met office synoptics suggest the Saturday winds get here on Sunday with the Monday winds coming maybe Tuesday.

And its a long downtide race too!

 

[webcraft]

Its . . .

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It's Thursday night and we've had two spells of F8 in the last 24 hours already . . . .

- W

 

[DogWatch]

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It's Thursday night and we've had two spells of F8 in the last 24 hours already . . . .

- W

Well, it's early November, it always blows in early November.