Storm Baraa

[Graham]

Storm Barra was a damp squib here thankfully!
We had warnings for ice, snow and wind. They also mentioned blizzards
over the highest hills, dont see anything at the winking man or the cat
& fiddle, they had more yesterday:)
We managed a gust of 39mph around midday, now the wind is much lighter
and the sun it out!
Patchy rain this morning with the temperature quickly rising to 5.3c so
no chance of sleet or snow here.
There was a short spell of very heavy rain with hail just before the
clearance.

Much milder from Sunday I'm pleased to say, lets hope it remains that
way for the foreseeable future.
I do hate this cold wet muck!


Graham (Weston Coyney)

[Martin Brown]

On 07/12/2021 15:25, Graham wrote:
> Storm Barra was a damp squib here thankfully!
> We had warnings for ice, snow and wind. They also mentioned blizzards
> over the highest hills, dont see anything at the winking man or the cat
> & fiddle, they had more yesterday:)
> We managed a gust of 39mph around midday, now the wind is much lighter
> and the sun it out!

It is fairly wild up here in North Yorkshire now. Hard frost overnight
and a fair amount of ice on rural roads (main ones were gritted). It was
briefly sunny just after dawn - red sky in the morning and all that.

Yesterday there was a lot of rain and resulting puddles froze overnight.
Wind is still getting stronger and gusts to 50+mph have snapped the odd
big branch. No trees that I know of down near me as yet. It is howling
around the house and things are flying about in the air outside.

Seems to be a bit quieter inland towards Leeming and wilder near the N
York Moors (if their observations are to be believed).

Wind is gusting from SE/SSE at the moment and so breaking a different
set of branches to the previous Northerly gales of Arwen. Some of the
things falling now have probably been weakened by the previous storm.

So far so good - the electricity is still on!

> Patchy rain this morning with the temperature quickly rising to 5.3c so
> no chance of sleet or snow here.
> There was a short spell of very heavy rain with hail just before the
> clearance.

We will probably get snow overnight if not before. Temperature hovering
around 2C all day and was colder in more exposed areas. Colder daytime
maximum than was forecast.

> Much milder from Sunday I'm pleased to say, lets hope it remains that
> way for the foreseeable future.
> I do hate this cold wet muck!

I suspect it will be wet snow slush that then freezes on the roads
overnight. Presently it is still raining from a dark grey sky.

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Regards,
Martin Brown

[N_Cook]

On 07/12/2021 15:25, Graham wrote:

For Southampton I thought our problem , wind ->windtress -> surge, would
be the high tide overnight 07-08 but the problem was 07 Dec midday.
30 years at trying to understand the tides and surges and still learning
stuff.
Not just me but the premier NTSLF got it wrong.
Still researching why we all had the surge underplayed, locally IoW area
that is, about 1m at its peak, NTSLF had predicted 0.55 which would have
been fine . The peak combined tide was just 0.05m lower than the
previous house flooding tide (if no property protection measures in
place), Valentines day 2014.
It could have been partly a reflection surge off the north French coast
from NW wind half a day before or some local enhancement beyond the
hi-res wind model outputs, not found on any local wind records yet.
We even had sewage flooding problems, galling thing is other peoples
sewage, from the high ground outside our area but their pipe goes under
us to the local sewage works and fountaining out of a local sewer.
Surcharge of that sewer by about 2.3m due to about 8mm of rain in 1/4
hour, roof run-off and "combined sewers"


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