Todays Weather where you live?

[Mythocentric]

Waiting for Hurricane Ophelia. Time to test the new seawall defence measures!

 

[Terre]

I hope all goes well.

 

[Terre]

Myth, how are things going? A friend who lives about 100 miles westish of London says there are 120,000 people in Ireland without power.
ETA: He just said 4000 in Wales are in the same boat.

 

[tparo]

I'm in the east of the UK there wind but nothing dramatic but the sky is incredible it darken about 4 o'clock I think and was a bright orange for a good hour or so.

 

[Terre]

I think my friend is in a similar boat. He mentioned winds in the high 40s and darkness but seemed to be OK otherwise.

 

[Mythocentric]

Last reports said Ophelia was reduced in status to Storm. Yesterday here was a calm, mild windless day with light overcast. Today has been darker but nowhere near as severe as the Met Office forecast. It looks like Ireland has taken the brunt of it again and my prayers are with them. Still keeping my fingers crossed though. General approach direction for Ophilia is south-west so theres still a good chance of it striking the Bay with Barrow-In-Furness first in the firing line. I haven't checked sea conditions today but I'll be popping down to the shore later to see.

 

[Bonnie2001]

Ophelia swept across Ireland today. We had very heavy winds in the east but most of the damage was in the west of the country. The wind is still strong where I live but the storm is gradually moving north.
Part of the fence in our back garden blew away, but we were lucky. Three people were killed and lots of damage done in other areas.

 

[Alisa]

Yikes. Glad things weren't worse for you, Bonnie, but sad to hear about the deaths and damage

 

[Hornet3d]

Ophelia swept across Ireland today. We had very heavy winds in the east but most of the damage was in the west of the country. The wind is still strong where I live but the storm is gradually moving north.
Part of the fence in our back garden blew away, but we were lucky. Three people were killed and lots of damage done in other areas.

Glad you are safe, fences can be repaired.

 

[AlphinaNovaStar]

It is cloudy with chance of meatballs. Or otherwise cloudy with a chance of being my bed time. Waiting to go to sleep.

 

[Mythocentric]

Windy, 14 C (8C wind chill), cloudy, rain expected soon. A big change in the last few hours.

 

[Miss B]

Well it was chilly and very windy here today, and it's supposed to stay this way until the weekend, so Fall is here, and Winter is on the way.

 

[Bonnie2001]

We got yesterday and today off school thanks to Ophelia, which has now left Ireland. Today is nice and sunny.

 

[AlphinaNovaStar]

Hurricanes can attack Ireland?

 

[Satira Capriccio]

It's been rare. Hurricanes that form in the Atlantic tend to move west/northwest (with the trade winds) ... at least those in the Northern Hemisphere. Ophelia formed both further north and east than is common.

 

[Glitterati3D]

Ccccoooooold......shiver!

30 degree drop in temps from yesterday. It's in the 40s here, but it feels colder because it dropped so fast. 90s one day, rain, then 40s overnight.

Brrrrrrrr

 

[Mythocentric]

Hurricanes can attack Ireland?

Hurricanes can and do indeed attack Ireland and the UK. Strictly speaking, we get the remnants of them as they break up and I can recall six in the last ten years, including Katrina which caused so much devastation in the US. Just a couple of weeks back we had Hugo which, happily for us, turned out to be a bit of a damp squib, but as Satira pointed out, Ophelia originated much further north-east from the more usual Carribean origins, hence the extensive damage and, sadly lost lives. Actually, in the scheme of things, this is an increasing trend in our weather patterns partly because of global warming (At this point I would suggest that deniers go visit www.nasa.gov and view the vast amount of evidence before spouting forth the usual emotional claptrap). Also contributing is the falling temperature of the Gulf Stream, because of icemelt, which flows past the UK from the north and is largely responsible for the UK's moderate climate.

 

[James R.]

We are under a severe Wind Warning right now.

Wind? On the Canadian prairies, who knew?!

Well, it does get windy here...it's the prairies; it's flat. Many thousands of years ago this was the bottom of a lake. There isn't much here to stop the wind!

(Saskatchewan joke: They say Saskatchewan is flat! How flat is it? Saskatchewan is so flat you can see your dog run away from home. For three days!)

But they've said we're to expect 90 to 110 km/h winds tonight (around 60-70 mph). That kind of windspeed is quite unusual and the city (and province) is on alert for damage. I wouldn't want to be in the South part of the province. By comparison to those of you who've recently survived hurricanes (glad you're unscathed, by the way!!!), this insane wind will be brief, and comparatively nothing at all. It's just quite unusual.

The wind has picked up in the past half hour. It sounds kind of intense out there already, rattling the house and shaking the windows. If nothing else, it sounds right creepy!

 

[Glitterati3D]

Stay safe, James!

 

[Miss B]

Here's hoping your house doesn't suffer any damage, and if it does, that it's minor and easy to fix.