Weather Alert: Treeblown threat?

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

been blowing a hooley all day here in herts!

[Stephen Blair]

beautiful calm clear night here, just in from a walk in the woods.

 

going to take the rakers off with the grinder and look at the Florida Holiday brochures just incase:thumbup:

[RobArb]

got my florida/disney holiday all booked for next march for two weeks woop woop

 

anyway back to the wind, realy gusty here all day in sunny lancashire

[dandkgroundcare]

went out for a ride today the amount of debris over roads made it a joke......and got sandblasted on weston sea front

[peckerwoo]

Indications are that the system is currently advancing faster than initially thought,

Peak winds are now brought forward to Monday afternoon to early evening with slackening before nightfall.

The western Isles and west coast of Scotland look to bear the brunt of the highest winds but the quicker movement and less time for deepening may have slightly reduced the intensity somewhat but >70mph gusts still likely.

Bright and breezy throughout the UK then with scattered showers after the rain band moves SE and tapers out and not calming too much throughout the week with the wettest and windiest conditions the more North and West you are.

Unusual nevertheless for late May so will be looking to see what the max gusts are tomorrow? well, today now its monday cheers (Mcallan single malt nightcap tonight;))

[J.D]

Pouring down and quite gusty here on the west coast of Cumbria, we are not gonna get much work done today by the looks of it.

[Stephen Blair]

wet and windy here now.

[Robert_S]

wild here. i aint working in that unless i get lawyer rates:biggrin:

 

and judge dread is starting on sky:thumbup:

[blazer]

just watching a 1/2 dead Gum tree doing the 'fan dance' waiting for the bang.

 

Say 12 yrs ago a large storm came in and the estate manager went for a drive around and had a tree fall behind, then one dropped across the front so he took to the fields as more came down - very frightening to be out. I just stay out of the way untill it's settled but even then the odd bough will suddenly drop.

 

Will the dry weather affect the strength of trees and root systems besides being in leaf having a sail effect?

[RobRainford]

sunny lancashire

 

surely thats an oxymoron?

 

was wild here yesterday, dark clouds overhead and looks like more wind could be on its way, forecast some strong gusts of 60mph here