Hurricane Ophelia.....

[kiethton]

PositronicRay said:

Of course it is! The corner of Westmoreland Rd and Masons Hill.

They're horses not pigs

(Isn't that the junction with the police station in the middle of Bromley?)

[Puggit]

Crazy skies today!

[PositronicRay]

kiethton said:

PositronicRay said:

Of course it is! The corner of Westmoreland Rd and Masons Hill.

They're horses not pigs

(Isn't that the junction with the police station in the middle of Bromley?)

I remember when it was all fields around Bromley South!

[Moonhawk]

Digga said:

dazwalsh said:

I Gave my grandmother a ring, the storm is heading her way in the next hour or so and i asked her what she was doing to prepare for it.

"I've taken the washing in" was her response.

Good girl. Tell her to get a kettle boiled before the power lines come down and I think she's about fully prepared.

The guy in the "no such thing as zero" thread was wrong - zero does exist.

It can be precisely quantified as the the number of fks dazwalsh's grandmother gives.

[Puggit]

Brilliant video of Ophelia unwinding from being a hurricane in to a more typical Atlantic storm

https://twitter.com/StuOstro/status/91996277467923...

[MulsanneKinky]

[Mothersruin]

MulsanneKinky said:

Stating the obvious but Please, please, please don’t go trying to take photos of the sun with your telescope and just your eyes.

I'd use a camera.

[MulsanneKinky]

A decent camera is - strangely - the one thing the MrsKinky has prevented me from buying!

[LaurasOtherHalf]

19 degrees and not much of a breeze when I left work earlier-blowing a bloomin' gale now.

Still it'll be getting rid of a few leaves I suppose...

[Some Gump]

No picture of a prone wheelie bin? I am disappoint.

[untakenname]

Was so dark in Bromley that at 3pm the streetlights turned on! Haven't seen anything like it before, I assume it was all the debris and dust in the air.

[dazwalsh]

MartG said:

The roof of a Cork school has landed in someone's garden !



Video clip here https://twitter.com/eoinbearla/status/919904356614...

Holy moly!

[King Herald]

Been out walking the dog, 9pm, hard to believe the number of people that can’t ‘do the math’ about wind and light objects, must have seen a dozen wheelie bins laid om their sides, contests scattered.......

Is it really that difficult to wait and put them out in the morning?


I know they are trying to do their bit to lend value and interest to their mundane, featureless, workaday lives by advance planning, thinking ahead, trying to fill their day... but the blue bins don’t get collected until after lunch around here.

[anonymous-user]

He smoke from the fires in Spain held up in the atmosphere (mixed with the sand giving the red sky) made loads of UK aircraft report smoke in the cabins today,

One even took off, jettisoned loads of fuel and returned to Gatwick.

[TurboHatchback]

HRL said:

R8Steve said:

TurboHatchback said:

Well I'm scheduled to go sailing this afternoon which could be exciting. It's now practically dark and the sky is dark yellow here (Dorset) but the wind isn't anything to write home about yet.

I'd probably give it a miss today...

Er on the side of caution? That's not very PH, is it.

Pfft, it was great! After going dark yellow in the morning the sky cleared up, the sun came out and the wind really got going.

[B'stard Child]

TurboHatchback said:

Pfft, it was great! After going dark yellow in the morning the sky cleared up, the sun came out and the wind really got going.

That's a great place to mount a camera/go pro - good shots - guessing laser

[p1esk]

dazwalsh said:

MartG said:

The roof of a Cork school has landed in someone's garden !



Video clip here https://twitter.com/eoinbearla/status/919904356614...

Holy moly!

...and that looks like the roof of a modern(ish) building.

It amuses me to note (though amuses is not really the best word to use) that whenever we get these extreme weather events, the buildings that fail are those constructed in the modern regime of Building Regulations and fancy design codes, whereas the older buildings seem to survive much better.

[Murph7355]

p1esk said:

...and that looks like the roof of a modern(ish) building.

It amuses me to note (though amuses is not really the best word to use) that whenever we get these extreme weather events, the buildings that fail are those constructed in the modern regime of Building Regulations and fancy design codes, whereas the older buildings seem to survive much better.

There's very little that's amusing about modern building regs IME. But not to worry, the users of the school will be ultra warm with 120mm of modern wall insulation and great U value windows

[Eric Mc]

People have been comparing the yellow/orange sky with the fictional planet Tatooine. There are genuine places in the universe where the sky looks like that regularly -

[TurboHatchback]

B'stard Child said:

TurboHatchback said:

Pfft, it was great! After going dark yellow in the morning the sky cleared up, the sun came out and the wind really got going.

That's a great place to mount a camera/go pro - good shots - guessing laser

Yes it is indeed a laser. Fortunately I have access to a harbour so the water was relatively flat, out on the open sea was a different story and frankly would have been rather dangerous!