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    The Storms & Severe Weather Thread

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    Posted · Edited by FlyerTon

    Hold on to your hats at the end of the week, gonna be blowy.

    Its actually a better forecast for 9am Friday than it was yesterday, gusts of 94mph have lessened, but still...

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    Saturday looking interesting, whipped in westerly gusts 60mph +

    http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/surface-pressure/#?tab=surfacePressureColour&fcTime=1420718400

    Mallaig forecast gusts of 74mph on Saturday. Surprisingly, no Met Office weather warning out yet.

    Maybe they are waiting to closer the time?

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    Lockerbie - 26 years on

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    26 years ago today.

    The flight path of PA103 had it flying over Scotland's biggest city just about 7 minutes or so after Lockerbie.

    From: http://lockerbiedivide.blogspot.co.uk/2010/12/but-flight-103-was-behind-schedule.html

    To establish the flight Path across the UK, I return to the conversation with ATC Brown:
    Q And then A20 route?
    A It was a low level airway from London Heathrow going through a reporting point called
    Trent, which is TNT.
    Q And then, "upper alfa 2 Pole Hill UB for [156] Margo direct Glasgow."
    A That's the route that the aircraft would continue to take. After Trent, it would proceed via Upper Humber 2, via Pole Hill, upper Bravo 4 to Margo, flight direct from Margo to Glasgow, and then follows the upper air route 590 to 59 north and 10 west.

    Flight_Path_small.jpg

    R.I.P.

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    The Storms & Severe Weather Thread

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    From:

    http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/uk-weather-polar-vortex-bring-4810075

    "A polar vortex is expected to bring Siberian weather to Britain over Christmas, causing travel chaos for millions.
    Forecasters predict storms, snow, ice and temperatures as low as -12C.
    The Met Office said a weakening of the polar vortex – the North Pole’s dominant low pressure system – will block mild weather from the West and allow a cold front to arrive from the East"
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    The Storms & Severe Weather Thread

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    Posted · Edited by FlyerTon

    Yellow warning of high winds out early for next Wednesday, 10th Dec.
    Currently yellow, but expect this to be upgraded to amber if the 70mph gusts are expected nearer the time.

    High wind warning now upgraded to an amber in some areas.

    "Very large swell generated over the Atlantic to the south of the very deep depression will lead to exceptionally large waves affecting west coasts"

    http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/warnings/#?tab=map&map=Warnings&zoom=5&lon=-3.50&lat=55.50&fcTime=1418083200

    Warning also out for snow on Friday:

    http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/warnings/#?tab=warnings&map=Warnings&zoom=5&lon=-3.50&lat=55.50&fcTime=1418342400&regionName=st

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    The Storms & Severe Weather Thread

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    Posted · Edited by FlyerTon

    This is a useful site I've come across (tis' for surfers),http://magicseaweed.com/news/black-wednesday-swell-for-north-atlantic/7017/nice animation of the storm as it moves towards us. I've heard concerns about high tides and the possibility that a storm surge could cause problems.

    This chart looks worrying (below) with that storm's pressure dropping as much as 950mb in the center with those tightly packed millibars to the south, that's going to be a beast if it happens and the west coast is going to get the worst of it.

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    The isobars on the Met Office forecast pressure chart for Wednesday on the link look tightly squeezed. 940mb low.

    Current forecast winds showing sustained westerly at 41mph, whipped in gusts 71mph, later veering NW.

    http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/surface-pressure/#?tab=surfacePressureBW&fcTime=1418169600

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    The Storms & Severe Weather Thread

    in The General Nonsense Forum

    Posted · Edited by FlyerTon

    Yellow warning of high winds out early for next Wednesday, 10th Dec.


    Currently yellow, but expect this to be upgraded to amber if the 70mph gusts are expected nearer the time.




    Risk of storm force winds, western Scotland on Wednesday.



    NB: Out of a scale of 1-12, storm force is a 10:



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    The Storms & Severe Weather Thread

    in The General Nonsense Forum

    Posted · Edited by FlyerTon

    This system that people were getting hysterical about last week has stuck between Greenland and Iceland, all its done so far is send a warm front towards us as it weakened in the Atlantic a couple of days ago and as it reaches us its pushing the cold air from the Arctic away from us at least briefly. http://www.yr.no/satellitt/europa_animasjon.html

    Still keeping an eye on that system since it could affect us during the week.

    Met Office forecasting gusts of 66mph on Wednesday, central west coast.

    ETA: Update now showing 69mph.

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