Originally Posted by Chris

The eye is forecast to drop to around 935mB before it starts to fill again, which is as deep as a cat 4 hurricane. So yes, it’s going to be very bad. Thankfully it isn’t a hurricane, the physics are different thanks to our latitude, and the winds won’t reach persistently hurricane force speeds, and the storm will weaken as soon as it gets close to land. But as we don’t have a hurricane season here, we don’t have the infrastructure to cope with hurricane force storms. So things are going to get a bit hairy over the next 18 hours.

Originally Posted by heero_yuy (Post 36189964)

Well despite the doom laden warnings we've only got a light zephyr down here, even the met office charts only show 15MPH breeze.

Originally Posted by Stephen (Post 36189960)

A few of our neighbours ignored the do not put your bins out and now gardens are filled with rubbish as they blew around. My garden fence is blowing around and my neighbour trampoline is really not secure. To get worse in next couple of hours as the winds sweep round to be more westerly.