Storm threat: Thu 8th Dec

[peckerwoo]

,,,N Ire, Sco, NWales & NEngland.

Winds picking up now courtesy of a fractured low tracking NEwards off the Scottish coast but a system currently exiting Newfoundland shows highly probable signs of "bombing" along the converging polar maritime and Atlantic gulf stream air masses and projected for the centre to clip the outer hebrides midday thursday with a centre around 970mb which could well pack sum 70-80mph gusts possible 90mph? before pulling away and filling over southern Scandinavia. The affected regions are facing a real and subsequent threat for windblown trees coming up within 48hrs but I`ll try updating this when more data becomes available regarding intensity and track etc.

[born2trot]

Thanks pecker .. will start preparations tomorrow.

[tree monkey]

will it hit lancashire?

[peckerwoo]

difficult and inaccurate to determine this far out TM but your in a favored spot for severe gales 60mph+ gusts therefore structural damage possible?

[Gareth Dalzell]

Looks like we're in for a battering - we're on top of a hill about 600ft high and rather exposed. I set up a weather station at the weekend with a wind gauge - looks like it's going to get a good work out.

 

Thanks again Pecker woo - keep us informed with whatever you have:thumbup1:

[Big J]

Thanks for the heads up. We are supposed to be in the woods felling tomorrow, but I'm not sure that that is going to happen.

 

Can I request a sticky thread entitled "Peckerwoo's weekly weather forecast" please?!

[corylus]

From Met Office Mouintain Forecast; Yorkshire Dales for thurs........

 

"Maximum winds above 400m

 

Southwest 70 mph gusting 80, perhaps 90 mph."

[PeteB]

it is a bit windy in the East Midlands today!

[hazzygawa]

it is a bit windy in the East Midlands today!

 

 

Certainly was

[Ian Flatters]

We've been getting constant gust of around 35mph in Norfolk all day. Apparently its going to pick up to around 47mph tomorrow for us.