Tie down your boats, folks!

[Barton Seagoon]

Nasty winds forecast for the next 3 days. The forecast this lunchtime said that it will be one of the strongest to hit southern England in the past few decades.

Here's hoping that everyone comes through this with their boat and health intact. If you haven't checked your mooring recently, maybe you should.

Take care,
Barton.

 

[The Q]

I hope not..
Arwen broke an 18 inch diameter oak branch off a tree in our garden, nothing wrong with it, no rot or anything.. That also took six tiles off our roof..

 

[[70521]]

Nothing unusual for this time of year. F7-9 on the west coast then blowing through to the east for the next 48 hours.

 

[Seven Spades]

Gusts of 70knts forecast for the south cost on Friday lunchtime.

 

[Slowboat35]

Forecasts!
BBC forecasting 52mph just now. Ventusky say 35. I'm seeing 30-35. Felixstowe showing gusts to 25.
BBC suggesting peak 80 Weds noon and over 70 for 10hrs that morning and afternoon! Ventusky shows nothing over32.

Go figure!

 

[Povremeni pomorac]

People will die.

 

[MAGTRAD]

I shall be at Northney Marina, hayling Island this weekend. If anybody has a boat there and want's the mooring lines checked just give me a shout!

 

[dunedin]

Nothing unusual for this time of year. F7-9 on the west coast then blowing through to the east for the next 48 hours.

Our Inshore Waters shows "Severe gale 9, occasionally storm 10 at first", then a brief "decreasing" then in the Outlook "becoming .. severe gale 9 later". NI gets a brace of F10 forecasts.

Fairly unusual even up here to get two F9-10 in quick succession. Indeed it has been an exceptionally windy period for some weeks up here

And the wind slamming into here suggests forecasts weren't too far wrong

 

[LittleSister]

Local Met Office threatening gusts to Beaufort 11 here on Saturday Friday, and that's inland, low level terrain, and in the namby-pamby softy South-East!

I'll be rigging up some guy ropes to try to keep my canoe, kayak and dinghy from taking off. I'll also not be parking my car in its usual place next to a rather rickety fence, and hoping the creepers and climbing plants are sufficient to prevent my shed from heading off across the fields.

 

[capnsensible]

People will die.

The sun will rise.

 

[Davy_S]

Someone will think of a silly name for the next winter storm

 

[Giblets]

Better be on the lookout for flying trampolines on Saturday!

 

[wombat88]

The pressure drop might make your ears pop. XC weather can be a bit melodramatic at times but nevertheless it might be lively.

XCWeather Forecast

 

[KeelsonGraham]

Someone will think of a silly name for the next winter storm

Yes indeed. And before the advent of cynical attempts to stir mass hysteria as a means cowering the population into watching 24 hr news, ’storms’ used be called ’gales’.

Back in the 70’s the UK used to get a lot of ‘winter gales’ and no one batted an eyelid.

 

[Slowboat35]

Local Met Office threatening gusts to Beaufort 11 here on Saturday, and that's inland, low level terrain, and in the namby-pamby softy South-East!

Chainsaws at the ready!

 

[Slowboat35]

Someone will think of a silly name for the next winter storm

Puffin'

 

[dunedin]

Yes indeed. And before the advent of cynical attempts to stir mass hysteria as a means cowering the population into watching 24 hr news, ’storms’ used be called ’gales’.

Back in the 70’s the UK used to get a lot of ‘winter gales’ and no one batted an eyelid.

I think perhaps that you are slightly over 200 years out of date. Since Francis Beaufort developed his scale, F7-9 have been called “gale” and F10-11 “storm” (if caught in a F12 you probably won’t be debating the relevant terminology).

 

[LittleSister]

. . . cynical attempts to stir mass hysteria as a means cowering the population into watching 24 hr news . . .

If only we could tap the heat under the collar of conspiracy theorists, the energy crisis would be over!

 

[johnalison]

I think perhaps that you are slightly over 200 years out of date. Since Francis Beaufort developed his scale, F7-9 have been called “gale” and F10-11 “storm” (if caught in a F12 you probably won’t be debating the relevant terminology).

Although technically correct, ‘storm’ has a vernacular use for any strong blow, especially if accompanied by falling grot.

 

[LittleSister]

Although technically correct, ‘storm’ has a vernacular use for any strong blow. . .

Indeed. Whoever heard of a gale in a teacup?

And that's also why there isn't a yacht model called the 'Westerly Blowin' Dogs off Chains' or 'Westerly Seldom Experienced Inland'.