Storm Dudley/Eunice/Franklin

Checked the weather on the Met Office App last night and decided not to ride my bike to work today as it said 'gusting up to 45mph and 90% chance of heavy rain' around the time I would have been cycling home.

Left work at just after 1630 and it was a bit breezy, and a bit cloudy, but nothing I wouldn't have ridden in. As I was driving (about a third of the way home) I could see a massive wall of black clouds out to the North East. By the time I'd driven up the hill towards the back of Lincoln cathedral the wall of cloud was pretty much overhead and the wind had picked up. As I got to my front door it absolutely pissed it down solidly with horizontal rain for about 15 minutes.

If I'd have ridden home I'd have got caught in that rain at about the half way point, and I still would have had a steep cobbled climb to negotiate. So glad I took the car today.
 
BimboBob said:
Please do keep us informed of your travel arrangements for tomorrow. Riveting.
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Leave hotel at 4:45 for early flight from Lisbon to Alicante. Due to arrive into Spain around 9:45 and only having hand luggage hope to be in car and on my way home in good time. Expect to be in house for just before 11.
If anything changes I’ll let you know. :-)
 
I'm sure I remember having this sort of occurrence (stormy weather in winter) in the past. Before the advent of 'weather warnings' and giving a day or two of seasonal weather a name I seem to recall we either stayed in, or if we went out we put a coat on. I honestly don't recall any of this hysteria.
 
Eunice looking nasty..thankfully I'm off tomorrow..stay safe blues
 
Is it a coincidence that the female named storms are ‘bigger and badder’ storms than the male named ones, or do they do that on purpose?

Dudley was a fairly bad one last night but he was only a yellow warning, whereas Eunice is on the way and she’s an amber warning.
 
Psychedelic Casual said:
Is it a coincidence that the female named storms are ‘bigger and badder’ storms than the male named ones, or do they do that on purpose?

Dudley was a fairly bad one last night but he was only a yellow warning, whereas Eunice is on the way and she’s an amber warning.
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Storm Ciara made my bathroom ceiling leak and Storm Ophelia destroyed my garden fence and left us without power for a few afternoons so you may be onto something.

Edit: should say few hours
 
Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese said:
I'm sure I remember having this sort of occurrence (stormy weather in winter) in the past. Before the advent of 'weather warnings' and giving a day or two of seasonal weather a name I seem to recall we either stayed in, or if we went out we put a coat on. I honestly don't recall any of this hysteria.
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Whilst this is true, it does seem that since it was announced that we’ve not had enough wind for our turbines to produce enough energy, whatever controls our weather has gone into Fuck it mode and the wind hasn‘t stopped blowing a gale.
 
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