It's been windy and wet up to 10:00am on Sunday morning even before the arrival of storm Ciara. The worst of the storm is expected over the next 12 hours with the strong winds continuing on into Monday.
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| Rainfall, High Wind Speeds and Temperature Records 09 February 2020 |
The rainfall so far is 19.6mm (0.77in) the highest daily rainfall this year and it's forecast to continue raining for most of the day. There already reports of flooding in North Yorkshire. Whilst it's been very blustery we've had stronger gusts this month although the worst of the storm force winds are yet to arrive.
Needless to say we have no intentions of visiting the allotment today. After a few days of reasonable weather the plot was probably beginning to dry out a little bit but after all today's rain it will be back to square one.
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Thanks for the update, I am curious, always like to see how accurate the forecasts are. I see from your weather page that there has been a gust of 31, that's strong. Are your power lines vulnerable?
ReplyDeleteForecast turned out to be very accurate. Rainfall was very accurate, our second wettest day in the last ten years 1.6in, locally wind speeds maybe a bit less than forecast but it was enough to bring down a few trees locally. There's lots of flooding about from the rainfall. Locally our power lines are mainly underground so no problems but some parts of the country have been left without power where trees have fallen on to overhead power lines.
DeleteImpressively the weather models picked up this system a week ago but worryingly they are suggesting a repeat for next weekend. I'd like them to be wrong!