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"Severe weather warning"
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The wind wasn't too bad most of my westbound way this morning. In Ratho I got very excited that there was quite a lot of light over the eastern horizon but as I was approaching Livingston I noticed that Livingston was topped with very dark clouds.
As I started my climb to the Boulevard of Dreams a squall came. Wind picked up, horizontal rain came. Poor bus behind my was struggling not to die with my basically walking speed. The squall was over by the time I (eventually) got to the other end of the Boulevard of Dreams.Posted 4 years ago # -
As I started my climb to the Boulevard of Dreams a squall came.
@bill
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Boulevard of Broken Dreams is a great Jimmy Dean photo so maybe the Boulevard of Dreams takes you to a lock up on the Deans Industrial Estate - Livingston.
@IWRATS, meet me in Kays Bar sometime and I will tell you about my man from Phibbsboro in Dublin called Martin Finucane. He goes by the soubriquet The Influencer. Ask me anything about him.
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Proof that I did not invent the trampoline story.
https://twitter.com/AteliersCortada/status/1224319809116147712/photo/2
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Discretion, valour and all that. Bus I think.
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The pavement gritter appears also to have gritted my front yard. Which is nice. I see hail forecast for middle of the evening 9pm or so. . I think it might be slippy tomorrow. Windy and indeed cold. Like winter which is ridiculous given we are now in spring
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Hail from Polwarth to the Meadows just now. Then snow all the way to Waverley. Brrrr.
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It was sleeting strongly in That Roslin just earlier. The Beeb (and Alexa) reckon 8 degrees tomorrow.
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Snow fell softly in Balerno around 2am this morning. Looked heavy but all gone now.
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Wee scraper/gritter allowed me past first at the top of MMW yesterday evening. Didn't see if it went down MMW or along Lauriston Place as I was looking at the closed-off Teviot Pl right-turn lane in case something tried to barge through.
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Scraps of snow lying on the verges in Livingston. Roads clear.
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Snow on the Pentlands and the Fife hills
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Not too windy, no ice and some pleasant sun this morning.
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So where has my hurricane gone? Wished I'd put a fleece on last night but this is balmy and calm.
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8°C in Fairmilehead this morning, barely a breath of wind. The yellow warning that was in place yesterday evening (which only actually covered the west coast and the Hebrides - it wasn't even flagged on the Glasgow forecast) has gone.
However, we now have a yellow warning for Saturday night/Sunday that covers the whole of the UK (presumably RoI has some kind of anti-wind force field). I wonder how long that one will last?
I do wonder whether the Met Office is now over-compensating for previous occasions when it has been very windy and no warning was issued (see this thread passim, and arguably all the way back to Michael Fish in 1987). That said, the BBC forecast last night was warning of gale force winds, and they don't use the Met Office any more. Perhaps wind forecasting is just a lot less reliable than rain and snow?
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the rain / wind forecasted on yr.no tends to be quite pessimistic 48 to 24 hours in advance, then downgrades to the most likely rain level / wind speed within 12 hours to go.
if yr.no indicates imminent problems, then i'll tab over to ventusky to determine most likely rain level / wind gusts for each hour of the day that i'm interested in
its a reliable combo
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I use https://www.yr.no/place/United_Kingdom/Scotland/Edinburgh/ for my forecast needs now. They forecast a max of 13m/s ~= 29mph winds last night, so pretty accurate. Met Office have been very poor recently and I see little deviation in the MeteoGroup/BBC stuff from the Met Office line.
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@bax snap
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Met office weather etc. thinks there's going to be a serious storm for the next few days. yr.no as above doesn't seem to think so?
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/warnings-and-advice/uk-warnings#?id=ce4cfdda-9b52-4608-a125-400e5aa93aa7&date=2020-02-09https://www.yr.no/place/United_Kingdom/Scotland/Edinburgh/long.html "Strong breeze".
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I've recently found Meteoblue which gives all sorts of things including uncertainties and forecast from a host of different models. It may not get you closer to a correct answer but at least gives you far more incorrect forecasts to get annoyed about.
https://www.meteoblue.com/en/weather/forecast/multimodel/edinburgh_united-kingdom_2650225
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Sat outside for lunch again today. Second time this week.
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“yr.no as above doesn't seem to think so?”
Saying 1/2” of rain on Sunday morning.
I find yr.no often reliable, but does sometimes ‘predict’ extreme things (like rainfall) a few days in advance and then scales back significantly before due time.
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My experience of yr.no in norway last year was that they couldn't get their own countries forecast dialled in let alone the rest of the world.
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Feels like spring today. Heard reports of extreme phenology this year
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Hmm, loganair convinced enough by wind forecast that they suggested two colleagues shift their flight to Orkney from Sunday to Saturday. Northlink leaving Lerwick three hours early tomorrow (Friday) and saying may be late into Aberdeen anyway.
I am on the North boat from Aberdeen on Sunday night. I might have some concerns...
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@LivM: To be fair, the steady wind speed forecast is the same on Saturday evening for both the Met Office and yr.no: 12m/s is near as dammit 27mph. Right through the warning period there's not a huge discrepancy in the forecast speeds. Maybe a Norwegian "strong breeze" is what we call "blowin' a hoolie"? (Though you tend to notice it rather more if you're outdoors and getting slapped around by ~50mph guts.)
The Met Office warning is for wind on Saturday and Sunday, and wind+snow on Monday and Tuesday - with Edinburgh on the Eastern fringe of the affected area. The storm has been named Ciara - only the third to be named this winter storm season which I believe is quite unusual: AIUI it's usual for there to have been at least that many before the turn of the year.
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yr.no is the only one I really look at these days. I've noticed the same as chdot, that the outlook starts out more extreme and becomes moderated as it draws closer.
Now saying >42mm of rain between noon Saturday and noon Sunday so canoes at the ready.
More imminently, looks pretty cold overnight tonight - spikes on!
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Gritters out in Gilmerton tonight.
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@snowy:
>Now saying >42mm of rain between noon Saturday and noon Sunday so canoes at the readySo they'll be jumping over the flood gates at the Calcutta Cup
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