It's a Bit Blowy In Scotland.....

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Now I don't want all you chaps who live in the Hurricane belt laughing at us too much, but it's all fun and games here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-16082303

All the schools are shut, most non-essential public sector staff (is that the lot then?) have been sent home, and public transport is on a skeleton service.

Rolfe and I were just about to get smug about having snow tyres on our respective cars as well.......have to wait for the big freeze in January instead!
 
Architect said:
Now I don't want all you chaps who live in the Hurricane belt laughing at us too much, but it's all fun and games here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-16082303

All the schools are shut, most non-essential public sector staff (is that the lot then?) have been sent home, and public transport is on a skeleton service.

Rolfe and I were just about to get smug about having snow tyres on our respective cars as well.......have to wait for the big freeze in January instead!
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Eeek! :boggled:

We're next in line for that storm. I'd better go out tonight and strap everything down.

ETA: Just looked at the forecasts. Seems it will loose most of its vigour over land. However, the associated warm front will give us a lot of rain this night.

Hans
 
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One of the two offices which my practice operates is 400m from my house. Before that sounds too smug, I'll have to walk an extra 400m to avoid the tree-lined avenue on the original route!

Some of the other lads are working remotely using GoToMyPC (and I can even see them on the monitors) whilst one hardy soul is watching train disruption updates with trepidation.

I have to say, however, that so far it doesn't seem much worse than where I grew up in the Western Isles. Big jessies this far south, so they are!
 
Going to see Daddy Don. He lives in England but very much Ooop North. I hope he still has a roof when we get there.

I might take the Jaguar on the grounds that it's the heaviest car I own and so less likely to blow away
 
The Don said:
Going to see Daddy Don. He lives in England but very much Ooop North. I hope he still has a roof when we get there.

I might take the Jaguar on the grounds that it's the heaviest car I own and so less likely to blow away
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Lots of roads affected by blown-down trees according to the BBC Live reports, so I'd think you'd be better off warming up the tank.
 
Architect said:
Now I don't want all you chaps who live in the Hurricane belt laughing at us too much, but it's all fun and games here
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Well, while the BBC talks about gales, it also says >80mph winds, which is hurricane force. Presumably that's gusts rather than sustained, but it's still nothing to sniff at.

Ooo, in fact I just noticed the Met Office actually shows measurements as well as forecasts. Looks like you're getting mean winds of 69mph up there. And we're actually getting nearly 40mph down here, which would explain why it feels more like a gale than the "fresh breeze" we apparently should be having.
 
130 mph

That's what they say the wind has been gusting to this afternoon. Such has been the concern that we were sent home from work at lunchtime. It's blowy, but it doesn't at the moment seem that out of the ordinary to me.

The river, on the other hand, is something else. I think they must have opened the sluice gates on the reservoir in the hills above the village. What is normally a burn is coming down like a ton of bricks.

What wind-speed would other forumites consider deserved an afternoon off work?

Rolfe.
 
I've been on the mountains in 90mph winds, in the snow. Great fun, leaning into the wind at a ridiculous angle in order to move forward, then falling flat on your face when it abates for a second or two.

Mrs. Architect tells me that the motorway across the moors was "great fun". Or words to that effect.
 
Damn, I just started a thread in Community about this. Feel free to merge!

They sent us home from work at lunch time, but unfortunately I have work I can do remotely using my own computer, so I better get to it instead of watching crappy daytime TV.

They're saying 130 mph gusts, but it doesn't seem that bad here - or not from inside looking out anyway.

Rolfe.
 
Rolfe said:
...They sent us home from work at lunch time, but unfortunately I have work I can do remotely using my own computer, so I better get to it instead of watching crappy daytime TV.
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Tell me you've got a robotic telesurgery set-up at the practice! Please!
That would make you sooo cool, I mean even cooler than before!

Wow!

*cough* Yes, it's quite blustery up here too.
 
Thread title is out-of-date: 151 mph at the top of Cairngorm.

Don't expect many problems here at work, but can pretty much guarantee loose roof tiles when I get home. It's nice being at the top of a hill most of the time, except when it's windy.
 
At this rate you won't need to vote for independence, you'll be torn off the top of britain regardless :p

I made a funny
 
We just had winds like that in SoCal. A bunch of schools up in the San Fernando Valley were closed and nearly a thousand people are still without power a week later.
 
Rolfe said:
That's what they say the wind has been gusting to this afternoon. Such has been the concern that we were sent home from work at lunchtime. It's blowy, but it doesn't at the moment seem that out of the ordinary to me.

The river, on the other hand, is something else. I think they must have opened the sluice gates on the reservoir in the hills above the village. What is normally a burn is coming down like a ton of bricks.

What wind-speed would other forumites consider deserved an afternoon off work?

Rolfe.
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Gusting to 130 mph! Wow oh Wow!

Please be careful, that could be a very serious problem.
 
What a bunch of big girl's blouses.....


Incidentally, Helensburgh (where they keep reporting from) is on the Firth of Clyde and hence sheltered from the Atlantic. Imagine what the west coast of Kintryre must be like!
 
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