Cornwall and Channel Islands hit by Storm Goretti - BBC News https://share.google/8i2C9RpwU4knM1kP8

 

5 hours ago, dave2013 said:

Hope you "weathered" the storm well

 

All okay, Dave. Shed took a battering but other than that no property damage.

Apparently a large metal shed took to the air here in Jersey and landed on a car. Quite a few homes lost power. 

 

Trees down all over the island.

 

A station in the SW of Jersey reported a gust of 63mph last evening. I would have preferred EGJJ to provide data but they don’t other than ATIS.

Up here in Cheshire it was a nonevent. It was raining last evening with an air temperature of just +1°C and a gust of just 28mph.

No overnight snow but I suspect there will be some where @jon b lives. Hope your sleep wasn’t disturbed. 😉

26 minutes ago, Ray Proudfoot said:

No overnight snow but I suspect there will be some where @jon b lives. Hope your sleep wasn’t disturbed. 😉

There’s snow, but it’s only about an inch of soggy wet snow, which is quickly melting,not the 30cm drifting that was forecast.

Still enough snow to close the school though sadly.

3 minutes ago, jon b said:

There’s snow, but it’s only about an inch of soggy wet snow, which is quickly melting,not the 30cm drifting that was forecast.

Still enough snow to close the school though sadly.

It looks like the Met Office got this storm wrong. Unusual for them. I can vaguely remember being unable to get home from school in the late 50s when heavy snow closed all roads from Letchworth to my village Ashwell in Hertfordshire. I travelled by bus and even it couldn’t get through. H&S didn’t exist back then! 🤣 Probably slept at the school.

1 hour ago, Ray Proudfoot said:

A station in the SW of Jersey reported a gust of 63mph last evening.

 

"The maximum wind gust recorded in Jersey last night, during Storm Goretti, peaked at approximately 95 mph (153 km/h). "

Edited January 9Jan 9 by martin-w

Glad you didn't have much damage Martin.  I lived in Tampa Florida as a kid and experienced two hurricanes.  They looked just like the video you posted from the news report.  Now the clean up begins.

Stay safe Martin.

12 minutes ago, martin-w said:

 

"The maximum wind gust recorded in Jersey last night, during Storm Goretti, peaked at approximately 95 mph (153 km/h). "

That would be at the airport I guess.

It looks like the core of the storm this morning is over the Netherlands. Winds have decreased, but still rather strong south of the low pressure center.

18 minutes ago, Ray Proudfoot said:

That would be at the airport I guess.

 

95 was the overall peak reported by Jersey Met. The airport recorded 91 mph.

 

19 minutes ago, tdflightsim said:

Glad you didn't have much damage Martin.  I lived in Tampa Florida as a kid and experienced two hurricanes.  They looked just like the video you posted from the news report.  Now the clean up begins.

Stay safe Martin.

 

What we experience is child's play compared to the extreme weather events in the US, of course. Sounded quite impressive though when I ventured into the garden. As we have a lot of adjacent trees, the wind sounded like a freight train as it blasted through them.

Edited January 9Jan 9 by martin-w

32 minutes ago, JRBarrett said:

It looks like the core of the storm this morning is over the Netherlands. Winds have decreased, but still rather strong south of the low pressure center.

 

Slightly breezy and bright sunshine where I am now. 

A breeze in Kent years ago uprooted over a million trees and took out all the Power lines. A bit of snow in the SW caused the government to send out the army and RAF helicopters as farmers were trapped in the house and could not get fed out to live stock.

In 24hrs the southeast was under several feet of snow closing all motorways from the Kent ports. but then they did not have names for storms now it`s a big deal and headline news.

Weird pink skies in Birmingham.

 

Storm Goretti: Why was the sky pink in Birmingham? - CBBC Newsround https://share.google/gILSmHtMaVoaJeqSY

18 minutes ago, G-RFRY said:

A breeze in Kent years ago uprooted over a million trees and took out all the Power lines. A bit of snow in the SW caused the government to send out the army and RAF helicopters as farmers were trapped in the house and could not get fed out to live stock.

In 24hrs the southeast was under several feet of snow closing all motorways from the Kent ports. but then they did not have names for storms now it`s a big deal and headline news.

 

A million trees sounds rather a lot. 😃 Quite a breeze.

Year?

Edited January 9Jan 9 by martin-w

25 minutes ago, martin-w said:

 

A million trees sounds rather a lot. 😃 Quite a breeze.

Year?

Sorry my mistake it was 15 million trees and 18 lives lost.

https://weather.metoffice.gov.uk/learn-about/weather/case-studies/great-storm

PS I lived in Kent till 1989. And lived through it and want to work next day.

I just got whacked in the head by a falling branch here earlier near Weilheim, Bavaria. It was perfectly sunny, calm, +6C. I drove out to a forest area to do some hiking. Suddenly, like out of nowhere, massive thick clouds, semi-darkness, gusting winds. I'd say 50 knots, but just guessing. I momentarily stopped dead in my tracks thinking I could get hit by a tree. They were bending at like 45 degree angles, wildly swaying back and forth. I briefly delibrated, there's a large snowy clearing to my right I could get away from the trees, or race about a km back to the car on a narrow forest path. And then just a second later, BAM!, I got hit, so I raced back to the car. I briefly looked at the branch, it was only a few cm thick, but man does it hurt! Anyway I'm sitting back in the car now and it's all sunny and calm again. Like a mini hurricane or tornado. I can't remember ever having experienced such an extremely rapid back and forth change in conditions with seemingly no warning (or more like I probably wasn't paying attention).