I saw on the news tonight that ya’ll across the sea have had a time with the weather. I was just wondering if everyone is ok ?
Been a bit on the windy side for the past few days but nothing serious.
Other parts of the country have other stories to tell but we got away lightly when all is said and done.
Slan,
D. 
Good to hear that. The stuff shown on the news here was pretty scary looking.
Been a few trees down, alas, but apart from that …
Local wisdom has it that living close to the confluence of two rivers keeps us safe from the vagaries of wind and water.
I don’t understand the reasoning behind that but it seems to work.
Slan,
D.
One reason I love my mountains is because they shelter us from most of the extremes of weather- far enough away from the ocean to only get a little wind from hurricanes occasionally and far enough away from the flat land that tornadoes are almost unheard of around here. So if your rivers are protecting you that’s a good thing, however they do it.
But that stuff on the news tonight? Wow, planes careening through the air attempting to land, huge trees down everywhere, whole buildings collapsing… it had me worried.
Indeed..
Weird things are going down on the National news.
The local news reports a bit of traffic chaos because a few trees went down and one guy is dead because his shed fell on him.
Luck of the draw, in many ways…
Tomorrow brings another corner to turn.
Slan,
D. 
I SAW that!!! 
It scared the heck out of me. I hate to fly, and when I see that kind of stuff, it just furthers my convictions that if humans were meant to fly, they’d have wings. I may never get overseas now 
Glad to hear that you’re doing fine Dubh. Take care with the next round, ok?
It was more England into Europe that got nailed. France, Germany, Poland Czechoslovakia all reported deaths due to near hurricane force winds - 41 in all. Lots of damage. I guess for people who aren’t used to that sort of weather it must have scared the bejezus out of them.
djm
I want to know how they get hurricane force wind in places where there aren’t warm oceans to feed them.
Also, it says they had it in 1999 too.
All it takes is a strong high pressure area bumping up against a strong low. The pressure gradiant can result in winds in excess of 75 MPH which is the low end of the hurricane wind speed scale.
There can be storms with those wind speeds just about anywhere on the planet, even on the ice caps.
The highest wind speed recorded, (excepting ones due to torandos) is 231 MPH on Mt Washington NH in April, during a snow storm
As Dubh said it was windy but it has been windy since early november and this last storm didn’t exceed what we’ve been getting at least once a week since (i.e. 130-150 km/h gusts). Parts of the UK and the continent just aren’t used taking that.
I think we had 4 deaths in Sweden as well, and lots of people injured and without electricity for weeks out in the country side.
It rained a couple of days ago. Apart from that we’ve missed the whole thing, been quite a mild week to be honest.
The footage of that plane taking off sideways from Birmingham scared the crap out of me though. Who thought it was a good idea to let planes take off if the cross winds were doing that to them?
a few roads were blocked by trees, a few roofs had minor damage, but otherwise no harm here.
I’m glad to hear the Chrisoff and Claudine have fared well. I was wondering about some of the other European Chiffers. Henke, I’m sorry that things have been a bit more wild for you. Stay safe!
It was one scary night here, had been the worst storm in 10 years and at a time we normally have no storms but deap winter with, at the moment the temperatures here can be 12 degrees Celsius and higher, incredible. Quite some trees came down in my local village. I was supposed to go to meet up with Colin at a concert venue, he had left the house earlier in the afternoon. By the time I wanted to leave the storm had become much more powerful, we got hit with gaelforce 12 at the peak of it which was about 21/22 oclock in the evening so I followed catastrophy advices and did not leave home… I was sitting in the attic room and it was howling around the roof, rattling windows and front door and when the waves (?) hit, it was all shaking joijoijoi , probably checked twenty time or more if something had fallen down the roof, trees still standing, workshop not blown away etc. when I heard strange noises. My direct neighbours did even more often after they lost the top corner tile of the roof which was facing the storm front and were lucky it did not fall into the windows when it came down. At some point I thought this is so dangerous to run around the house in that storm waiting that a tile falls on your head… All long distance and later also short distance train connections where shut down. Bridges and motorways in our area were closed for traffic. No trains going in Germany has never happened before they said on the radio. And we were not hit worse in Northrhine-Westfalia, still 5 people died. The airpressure difference the strom ballanced out in Germany was 965 to 1015 which I learned is really a lot. My friends little son (10 years old) commented on the storm “now this is the climate catastrophy arriving, I wonder when we experience Tornados or Hurricanes”. I guess if someone has to deal with the outcomings of nature raping then it is the now children and the next generations to come… 
Brigitte
(ooops, hope this answer does not belong into the rubber room )
It’s tempting to think of climate change, we had a seemingly endless succession of storm and gale force winds since November and half the average annual rainfall with it. In fact outside we’re up to force ten again at the moment.
Some ten years ago we had one or two winters with similar weather though but with some storms thrown in bigger than what we’ve seen so far this year.
Most years the jetstream will push these storms more northward leaving us with some peace.
And if they were meant to ride on rails, they would have little metal wheels instead of feets.
Brigitte, it sounds like you really had a scary time. Glad you and the others that have posted are ok.
thanks for caring cowtime. i wonder what it is like to live in the appalachian mountains. i hope i will see that part of the world one day.