The wet and windy, with occasional snow, 2019/2020 thread

[p1stonhead]

My little old stream near my house almost back to normal.

[JakeT]

Puggit said:

Wet Feb tends to lead to dry/warm March: https://twitter.com/supercell_1996/status/12305723...

Best news all winter Pugs. Hopefully history repeats itself this time.

It would me more welcomed for the farming community. The ground is going to need some proper drying!

[Sophisticated Sarah]

eharding said:

Just heard that a hangar at North Weald collapsed in the high winds, crushing my old Yak-52 which had been up there for maintenance - looking like a write off.

Just metal at the end of the day, nobody hurt, but still gutting.

They’re not just metal, aircraft have soul

Used to see a lovely Yak at Popham when I was getting my licence, in fact we followed it out on my first ever flight

[MartG]

Oh joy

[popeyewhite]

MartG said:

Oh joy

Drove over the Pennines last night from South Cheshire to Sheffield. Despite numerous weather warnings there were no floods, blocked roads, sandbags etc. Not a thing. We seem to have got away with it so far. It does flood around here, very rarely, but it's more of the flash flood type event rather than ground saturation related.

[eharding]

Sophisticated Sarah said:

eharding said:

Just heard that a hangar at North Weald collapsed in the high winds, crushing my old Yak-52 which had been up there for maintenance - looking like a write off.

Just metal at the end of the day, nobody hurt, but still gutting.

They’re not just metal, aircraft have soul

Used to see a lovely Yak at Popham when I was getting my licence, in fact we followed it out on my first ever flight

Damage is apparently repairable, but whether economic to do so remains to be seen.

A lot of other aircraft would have been reduced to kindling. The 52 is the only aircraft I've flown in which one of the vital pre-flight checks involves vigorously and repeatedly smacking it about.

[Digga]

p1stonhead said:

My little old stream near my house almost back to normal.

That looks like quite a big wave. I'd get the sandbags ready.

[magpie215]

eharding said:

Sophisticated Sarah said:

eharding said:

Just heard that a hangar at North Weald collapsed in the high winds, crushing my old Yak-52 which had been up there for maintenance - looking like a write off.

Just metal at the end of the day, nobody hurt, but still gutting.

They’re not just metal, aircraft have soul

Used to see a lovely Yak at Popham when I was getting my licence, in fact we followed it out on my first ever flight

Damage is apparently repairable, but whether economic to do so remains to be seen.

A lot of other aircraft would have been reduced to kindling. The 52 is the only aircraft I've flown in which one of the vital pre-flight checks involves vigorously and repeatedly smacking it about.

[bolidemichael]

Having just taken a pit stop, it's wet outside Carlisle. Very wet.

[colin_p]

East Berks dog walk about an hour ago - dry but blowy AF.

Driving about this week, the Thames is high but thankfully no real issues. I really feel for those who have been flooded elsewhere.

[David87]

Currently on the western coast of the Highlands and the rain over the past few days has been unbelievable. It’s pretty much not stopped at all for hours upon hours. Even for here it’s unusually grim.

Pretty windy too, but not excessively so. Think the wind we had in Essex a week or two ago was worse than this.

[magpie215]

Rare yellow ball in the sky on the Fylde......still windy though...

[BigRusko]

magpie215 said:

Rare yellow ball in the sky on the Fylde......still windy though...

That's only because the wind has blown the clouds away just like my wheelie bins.

[SeeFive]

3rd weekend on the trot we are blown out down here in Pompey. Can’t get anything done outside. Getting seriously pissed off with this now.

[VEA]

bolidemichael said:

Having just taken a pit stop, it's wet outside Carlisle. Very wet.

I did Edingburgh to Henley yesterday. It was VERY wet in the North wasn't it.

[Scabutz]

Spent the week in Newquay. Only 1 day it didnt rain at some point. But the wind has been howling everyday. It hits you when you walk outside and takes your breath away, literally.

[Mort7]

I've compared photos of the Thames floods which I took in 2014 with observations yesterday. 2014 was a lot worse. I seem to remember that it was worse still in 2008, so despite some incredibly heavy rain we seem to have got off relatively lightly this time around - particularly when compared to the poor unfortunates in other parts of the UK who seem to be getting a month's worth on rain on an almost daily basis.

[jet_noise]

SeeFive said:

3rd weekend on the trot we are blown out down here in Pompey. Can’t get anything done outside. Getting seriously pissed off with this now.

I feel your pain.
I've been trying to build a log store since Christmas.
It's been so wet and windy up here (NW Highlands) that I haven't been able to get a roof on.

Even one whole day'd do it!

[MartG]

magpie215 said:

Rare yellow ball in the sky on the Fylde......still windy though...

Yes - it was very windy overnight

[hyphen]

SeeFive said:

3rd weekend on the trot we are blown out down here in Pompey. Can’t get anything done outside. Getting seriously pissed off with this now.

Why not. Just some wind and rain.

Man up and get out there