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"Severe weather warning"

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  1. SRD
    Moderator

    a roof has peeled off a tenement on Iona st, and one is coming off on harden place. and chimney pots falling bruntsfield. i thin k we can stop calling it fakeforecasts.

    Posted 3 years ago #
  2. gembo
    Member

    Anyone commut8ng by bike tonight will want t be travelling west east and also avoid exposed areas as the gusts are very strong

    Posted 3 years ago #
  3. crowriver
    Member

    Horrible out there just now. I was supposed to head to the shop, but may wait a while...

    Posted 3 years ago #
  4. steveo
    Member

    tree down in the school playground, this has caused much concern amongst the girls

    Posted 3 years ago #
  5. SRD
    Moderator

    we had to go out to talk to the fire service who are dealing with the roof across the road. it was not nice out there at all.

    Posted 3 years ago #
  6. crowriver
    Member

    Here's Iona Street earlier. Looks like roofing felt came off the flat part, rather than the entire roof.

    Posted 3 years ago #
  7. crowriver
    Member

    Saw a roofer's van parked opposite ours earlier, but did a quick inspection via skylights and no visible issues so far. Maybe a coinkidinky.

    Posted 3 years ago #
  8. SRD
    Moderator

    emergency roofers now at work. roped on.

    Posted 3 years ago #
  9. crowriver
    Member

    Presume they'll be lashing a tarpaulin on or something to make it watertight until proper repairs can be done?

    Posted 3 years ago #
  10. chdot
    Admin

    Seems to me that recent weather is increasingly ‘localised’ with more ‘micro effects’ than was previously normal.

    This seems to be both the amount/levels of gusting and dumps of rain.

    Warning that this is not “science fiction”, Sir James Bevan said on Tuesday that in recent years several of the “reasonable worst case scenarios” had happened in the UK, with more extreme weather and flooding. And he urged politicians to take action to reduce emissions and adapt to the “inevitable” impacts of the climate emergency.

    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/feb/23/climate-crisis-hitting-worst-case-scenarios-warns-environment-agency-head

    Posted 3 years ago #
  11. gembo
    Member

    Looks becalmed out there. I mean I can take you to where the wind will be blowing on The Whang as it almost always is but mostly looks like a great day to get out there

    Posted 3 years ago #
  12. minus six
    Member

    looks like a great day to get out there

    yes indeed, and back home in time for the first weekend of the cycling calendar, eurosport highlights 20:00 to 22:30, kuurne-brussels and gent-ninove

    Posted 3 years ago #
  13. gembo
    Member

    Pogacar laffing at Yates in UAE

    Posted 3 years ago #
  14. bill
    Member

    Pavements of Colinton and Juniper Green to Balerno gritted this morning. No ice on roads or pavements though since it has been dry.

    Posted 3 years ago #
  15. crowriver
    Member

    Beebly weather web is forecasting 40mph+ winds from Wednesday evening, then thunderstorms all day Thursday with up to 45mph winds!

    Mechty me!

    Posted 3 years ago #
  16. gembo
    Member

    Was windy coming back Along the Whang this evening I believe I experienced The Super Quickening

    Posted 3 years ago #
  17. crowriver
    Member

    Beebly forecast changed somewhat.

    Windy tonight, 40mph+ gusts. Yes, I can hear that.

    Windy tomorrow night and all day Thursday, 40mph+. However no thunderstorms now, but hailstorms instead!

    Mechty (2)!

    Posted 3 years ago #
  18. crowriver
    Member

    50mph+ winds in a couple of hours' time - be careful out there! (Hill Street Blues).

    Posted 3 years ago #
  19. steveo
    Member

    It is properly grim out there!

    Posted 3 years ago #
  20. gembo
    Member

    Sunshine and of course wind shine on the Whang this morning. No moon shine

    I did not have my boon companion with me this a.m. (he was there last night)

    Did spot His Mattness

    Also two Lapwing trying to work their Walkie talkies. I find the Lapwing call like trying to find a channel on your Walkie talkie.

    Posted 3 years ago #
  21. crowriver
    Member

    Beebly weather forecast has been downgraded from high winds to merely a fresh breeze. Yes I could have told them that by listening in.

    Sun is out. If I didn't have to work this afternoon it would be splendid weather to go for a bike ride.

    Posted 3 years ago #
  22. SRD
    Moderator

    still saying strong winds around 8pm

    Posted 3 years ago #
  23. gembo
    Member

    Sheltered areas maybe ok for cycle but Whang is fierce

    Posted 3 years ago #
  24. crowriver
    Member

    Hm, must be hyper localised forecasting as Beebly denies strong winds for these parts. However looking at the radar map points further south and west may be getting hail storms later?

    Posted 3 years ago #
  25. gembo
    Member

    LRT rerouting the 44 as Lanark Road Closed not sure why. sorry Lothian Buses.

    Posted 3 years ago #
  26. ejstubbs
    Member

    @gembo: Emergency utility repairs, apparently:

    Closed to westbound traffic between Craiglockhart Avenue and Inglis Green Road for emergency utility repairs.

    Also gas leak repairs at the Slateford Road/Chesser Avenue Junction.

    Expect increased levels of frustration, annoyance, aggression and selfish behaviour as a result. Fortunately I have no need to pass that way today.

    Posted 3 years ago #
  27. amir
    Member

    White stuff on the hills

    Posted 3 years ago #
  28. mcairney
    Member

    Was pretty chilly this morning. Regretted not wearing my liner gloves as my fingers were frozen this morning!

    Posted 3 years ago #
  29. gembo
    Member

    West Kip got the snow
    Chesser the gas

    Posted 3 years ago #
  30. ejstubbs
    Member

    Traffic displaced from Craiglockhart Avenue was queued practically the whole length of Colinton Road SW from the Firrhill roundabout when we passed by the other way after our state-sanctioned constitutional in Balerno. The folks in Colinton village will be loving that.

    Only got caught in one rain squall during our walk , but it was quite heavy and with a mean wind behind it. Didn't last very long, though.

    Posted 3 years ago #

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