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An "exceptional" storm will hit Britain tonight - with people warned to stay in and avoid unnecessary journeys.
Forecasters say it will be the sort of weather only experienced once every seven years - prompting comparisons with the Great Storm of 1987.


Forecasters said the weather system currently forming out in the Atlantic is not an average winter storm and only 30 of a similar force have been recorded since 1821.



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...n_page_id=1770



UK regions most at risk:


Greater London: 70%

South East England: 60%

East of England: 60%

South West England: 60%

Wales: 60%

West & East Midlands: 40%

North West England: 40%

Northern Ireland: 30%

Yorkshire & Humber: 20%

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sounds bad ..fortunatly i live allong the river humber 20% risk so hopefully will escape the worst.

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Oh dear, and I've got to travel down to South Wales, better take me brolly :D

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I think your brolly might turn inside out Bop :erm:

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looks like it will miss scotland then :erm:

ik

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Oh dear, better not rely on anyone in London tomorrow then, had we? :p:

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remember if its all too much just click your heels together 3 times and say there's no place like home......there's is no place like home.... :D

ik

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Bare in mind that you will need to be wearing the right shoes.:D
.............http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u...4933429339.jpg

....:erm:...Suites you ikthius. :D

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You positive about this?I'm down here on the south coast(SE or SW depending where the line gets drawn)and it's absolutely gorgeous here.Brilliant sunshine after a damp morning.:confused:

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Oh great, i have to walk to work tomorrow as well.

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Lovely sunny and warm here, maybe this is going to be like the apparent huge snow storm we was supposed to have :p:

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Well the brilliant sunshine has now gone here and ominous looking clouds are on the horizon

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It was nice and sunny and now just had some hail.
Hopefully it won't be too bad tonight.

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Nice and sunny here at the moment, but the forecast looks grim. High tide is around 8.00am and the forecast is clear but very windy so I'll be down the sea front with my camera's in the morning.

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Have battened down the hatches, still perfectly calm here at the moment (Cornwall).;)

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Met Office Satellites have it just hitting Ireland at the moment. I think you've got a few more hours.

Clicky

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Thanks G, good to have an update.

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I have two children having seen the forecast very very happy and discussing how they will spend their snow day!!!??? and i thought it was some wind and rain on the way.

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The latest updates regarding the storm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/7286596.stm (In pictures)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7285859.stm

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UK regions most at risk from severe winds (UPDATED)


Greater London: 80%

South East England: 70%

East of England: 60%

South West England: 60%

Wales: 60%

Northern Ireland: 40%

West & East Midlands: 40%

North West England: 20%

Yorkshire & Humber: 20%

UK regions most at risk from blizzards & heavy snow:

Grampian

Strathclyde

Central, Tayside & Fife

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Oh well so we will miss the bad winds but might get hit by severe snow, the joys :)

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I was due to deliver a large canvas tomorrow morning to a client who lives right on the coast at St Annes on Sea. We both agree that it may be prudent not to be carrying a 5ft by 3.5ft canvas in a gale.

I guess I will be going to the coast a bit later in the week.

I hope everyone in the red alert areas gets through the storm, high tides and errrr the snow OK. Take care everyone.

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Rain Radar here http://www.meteogroup.co.uk/uk/home/...d_kingdom.html

meto office weather warnings here: http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/..._warnings.html

Good luck everyone

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Oh, go on!

I can just see you flying over Blackpool like a Northern Mary Poppins...

joglynne, as I live & breathe! ;)

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and your wellies.;)

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I'm bracing myself for a strong breeze and a few showers, on the basis of the weather reports. Had they forecast a strong breeze and a few showers, I'd be outside now - building an ark.

:D

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Cobby you are possibly the only male on the forum who has visions of Mary Poppins. :D

I was thinking more on the lines of:-http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u.../kiteflyin.gif

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OT but we went past a pub - "Red Kite". Mate turns to me - "Why's there an eagle on that pub sign" :rofl:

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surely carring a nice large piece of canvas in a gale will help him get there faster? :shrug:

no doubt if london is hit by gales the news will report it as 'gales batter the whole of the uk!!!!' as they like to do :rolleyes:

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Well the wind is making itself felt but it is only moderate at the moment..I've lived through worse.:erm:

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Took this one earlier today

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2008/03/38.jpg

I did wave at you incog, but I don't think you were looking :)

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That's a very nice pic Xaccers.

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Thank you.
Would have been better without the double glazing in the way, but I think the spinaker owners would have objected to me breaking it :D

The clouds were fantastic, took the shot with auto bracketing and processed as HDR, then tweaked it a little.

The drive home was horrendus, really bad rain and a load on lunatics on the M3.
Stopped at Fleet services just to let some of the rain blow over.

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appears wales and the south west are getting the worst of it, south east / north west getting the spill over but i expect the south east to get it later on

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It's been a bit blustery here to say the least :)

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Might be takeing me kite out soon.:p:

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I wouldn't, you'll either get blown away or struck by lightning, this weather is so unpredictable, we've got Sunshine here in Poole atm but with cloud on the horizon, that looks set to end abruptly

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the snow here is............. non existent

ik

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Ah sweetheart, I'm further along the coast towards Southampton but thanks for thinking of me.Haven't the clouds been fab recently.That would make a good entry for the photo comp BTW.

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Went shopping during the eye of the storm despite hubby suggesting I didn't.
Got a fence panel down but that was where next door backed into the post and cracked it and then did a botched repair last summer.:mad:

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Big old roll of thunder overhead but nothing else, just pelting the window with rain and looking really cloudy :(

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I drove through the end of a rainbow yesterday, never seen the end of one before :D
Weather is fairly bad here. The thing i want to know is why does a bit of rain and wind suddenly make some people awful drivers? Had several people pull out on me while im going near the limit and their going 45 on a motorway :confused: :)

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Damn! I think there was a power cut during the night and my landline is down.It takes a lot to knock out the VM phone service.:(

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What storm? Only a drizzle here, I am amazed to hear that there was rain on the M3/Fleet. The sun is shining too ....

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Typical, west/central Scotland was blown to hell and back last month, 10,000 people without power for a day or more, and it got one or two mentions after the fact. Southern England is threatened and the BBC treats us to 12 hours of build-up reports, followed up with blow-by-blow (geddit) accounts of each gust and shower.

For the record, it got a little blowy up here around breakfast time, but now all we have is light rain and an attractive blanket of snow on the hilltops.

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It's only because we're more important down here ;)

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Or just soft southerners! :p:

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That's what the other lanes are for, so you can go faster than sensible ;)

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It got a bit windy here in sunny Sandy, loud enough to wake me up but no more than that.

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was sunny this morning, now its raining and windy

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I think this storm story is a made up by the media. Nothing here, I just lit the BBQ....

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:) Sunny Teeside, well it is at the moment, I think we may get off lightly http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/im...ons/icon12.gif

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Alternating between bright sunshine and horizontal stair rod rain here.Weird!

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More like storm in a tea cup. The British media do love a crisis don't they ?

We have no real understanding of what a real storm is,what a real flood is or for that matter,what a real earthquake is.

We live in such a dull, boring,grey little country where nothing ever happens and therefore we latch onto any little story and make it a big one so that we can wail and gnash our teeth if our chimney pot gets blown off the roof or something..

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bbc 2 spent 30 mins off out and about trying to find someone/something that died or hurt its self in the storms after learning about a few fences getting blown down they they went onto to see if the met office had over reacted..
a slow news day and trying to make news up shouldnt be on the bbc :)
anyway
was windy where i was all night and my palm tree fell down. i put the fella backup so hopefully he will be ok

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Well, fingers crossed that, if someones chimney pot gets blown down anywhere near you, it doesn't land on your head...

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I ish ihad a chimney pot. I could light a real fire under it then. Alas my house hasnt gotone.

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Far be it from me to presume that you had - that's why I just said 'someones' ;)

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In which case you should be rich having just found your pot of gold :cool:

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Thankfully this seems to have been a bit of a non event which i am glad about. Hopefully it will continue that way and we won't see any headlines of death and injuries.

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stoped for the rain ? is that what they call an all day breakfast darn sarf :D:D:D

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It was a wild night here last night, sounds like we are in for more of the same again tonight. :shocked:

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A bit of rain and wind in the morning and late afternoon here, nothing major. The sun even appeared ;)

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last night and in the early hours of the morning here it was very windy but nothing compared to how it was in the late afternoon around 4pm-6pm... the wind was extremely fears and very strong... it actually became so strong for a time people started running into the nearest shops it was quite funny.

it rained very heavy in the late afternoon too.

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i remember walking into uni at the start of last year, even though it was a built up area it was still windy enough to require a bracing stance or you'd be on the floor. what made it more challenging to walk was the wind wasn't in one direction. one second you'd be using all your strength to move forward only to get the wind from behind and be almost on the floor. good times that was :p:

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it was really windy here middx/surrey about 3 am ish but I only woke with the wind about 6 ish and didnt think it was that bad. lots of stuff blown around though but not like winds last year when there was debris every where and trees down in this area.

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As forecast - showers and breeze :)

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You lucky thing :naughty:

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^I agree, yestersdays "storm" was pathetic, although now the wind aint half getting up. :erm:

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well i for one am glad the wind has died down i have 5 chimneys on my house ,its like trying to sleep in a bag pipe testing center :D

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Nothing much happened here today either...again...a bit of rain and some wind that wasn't that strong...

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In Jersey, yesterday -my favourite place to be - so far... (bar Tresco, Scilly Isles)

The storm did what nothing during, or since, WWII has been able to.

A child on a school bus recorded this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywQ8V2MK0d8
it wasn't even high tide.

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A bit breezy on the coast this morning.
I'm not as quick as I used to be and got a little bit wet at one point. :)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/deltawh...7604104052223/

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You could describe the winds in Manchester as a tad blustery.

I was knocked over on to my derrière as I came around the side of my house this morning. :(

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I've uploaded a video of this morning's fun -http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJ2x_s7h3_0

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Looks pretty bad, did u use your phone to take it?

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:doh:

got pretty windy here last night / morning, could here the tiles on the roof rattling all over the place

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Blimey, all starts going pear shaped after the 1 min mark. Hope you didn't get your shoes and socks wet DW.

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wow it got a bit windy empty bins toppled over but thats about all I noticed I just thought was a windy night but I am in east midlands we tend to not get the worst of weather here as too far from all coasts.

But in 1987 I was on a old creaking ship going from guernsey back to england right in the middle of the storm now that was a different story.

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No, I used both my digital camera (Fuji S5700) and my video camera (Canon MV800i).

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Yup, I was gotten. Just had enough time to turn around to protect the camera :D http://tinyurl.com/2ctgvt

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It got a bit blustery, especially down near the Lowry Centre ;)

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I felt really dumb when this bloke that lives next door came round yesterday and told me half our tree was in his garden..I hadn't noticed and I don't think he believed me ! Wind..what wind

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Perhaps you could stick a bow and a tag on it "Belated Christmas wishes from next door"

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Best laugh of the night :D :LOL:

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Marevellous. I couldn't take my eyes off that, DW - cheers.