St Jude's Storm

still before the storm

their is no storm, just a gust or 2

yourl get 50mph winds .................if yer lucky............Its all punch & judy...........

Looking forward to it imo, I'll be cycling to work at 0730 tomorrow and according to the Met office I'll have 22mph winds at my back. It's like Point Break's 50 year wave but for middle aged salarymen.

'St Jude's Storm'  , makes you think Britain is a religous country .

Ken

My neighbour's tree blew down this morning!

The wind is starting to blow now.

no trees have been blown down, rotten ones have fallen.

no trees have been blown down, rotten ones have fallen

fallen??? or were they pushed?

where are you TC?

New York

Is this the official fred???

Woodside, South Norwood

London ?

Hey jude, don't make it bad.
Take a sad song and make it better.
Remember to let her into your heart,
Then you can start to make it better.

according to Wikipedia St Jude is revered by many religions. I guess that is a good reference if you were interviewing him for a job.

and St Jude is patron saint of lost causes and desperate situations.
One for every gambler's prayer book.

Well that was eXXtreme - To the MAxXx!

Must have been easily a minute faster than usual.

Lee Westwood won the St Jude Cassic after a 3 way play-off. However if Robert Garrigus had held his nerve on the 18th in normal play and not triple bogyed Westwood would have been blown away.

down here in the south east - the soft southern shandy drinking heartland, it's fine.
Only real damage I've seen is a couple of snapped For Sale signs.
Still a bit breezy, so probably a lot of extra hair gel needed by the estate agents when replacing them this morning.

It's horrific in SW18 - A terrific blast of wind almost took the sprinkles off the top of my skinny decaf extra hot caramel mochaccino. I was lucky, some may not be. Please, take care.

First death 17 year old girl died when tree fell on static home.

Well that's cheered the thread up no end.

We have quick a big bit of someone's (the house at the bottom of the garden) tree in our back garden.

What's the law? Tell them to come and get it?

It appears to have damaged the fence too - down to them I assume.

this storm is a pu$$y compared with 1987

Well it was a bit of a non event here in Norfolk, but as the Eastern Daily Press points out in this graphic picture a car did have to go through a puddle.

http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/how_the_st_jude_storm_is_affecting_the_norwich_area_1_2936637

^^ check out the bus that toppled over on the A140 - must be in your paper

Blow ,blow thou winter's wind-     [pronounced 'wined'!]
Thou art not so unkind
As man's ingratitude .
( William Shakespeare)

A bit pouty, did someone forget to thank him when he held a door open?

Worse than i expected in my area, to be honest i thought the weather people were just being over cautious after Michael Fish's balls up in 87. But no it was very windy, a few trees down in the streets near mine, a couple of collapsed walls and numerous recycling bins scattered about.

Felt sorry for the poor sod with a tree on their car roof, not only do you have the inconvenience of ringing up to get the tree removed, you need a new car as well.

The house was literally shaking during the night, the garden is upside down and it's now lashing down with rain and still blowing a hooley. SE21.

Blimey, I'm in SE11 which is, what, 10 less and it's a bit breezy and bright sunshine. A lovely day for sailing.

Yeah it's actually quite bright and sunny out now, it certainly wasn't about 7-8 hours ago though.

Kennington is not that far away but it's a filthy day here, anyway I thought you worked in Hammersmith?

Not any more, and as I type it's just clouded over and started tipping down. We've got enough Nespresso capsules to last the week if necessary, if it goes beyond then I don't want to think of the depravities I'll be forced to undertake.

JUST IN !!!!!!!!!!!


GIANT WHEEL HUB IF YOU ASK ME BUT THE EYEWITNESS THINKS OTHERWISE !!!!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPKb9z4l7eM   

Bit breezy at 5am I must say..nearly lost me Tupay nosing out of the window !

Can you believe 15m trees came down in '87 ???

Incredible scenes the day after the night before.. If that storm came in the day I think thousands may have died...

STRONGEST WINDS

1)    Needles Old Battery, Isle of Wight – 99mph
2)    Langdon Bay, Kent – 82mph
3)    Isle of Portland, Dorset – 81mph
4)    Andrewsfield, Essex – 79mph
5)    Odiham, Hampshire – 78mph

MOST RAINFALL

1)    Otterbourne, Hampshire – 50mm
2)    Wychcroft, East Sussex – 45.4mm
3)    Cardiff – 44.8mm
4)    Hurn, Dorset – 42mm
5)    Wiggonholt, West Sussex – 37.2mm
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Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2478056/Girl-17-killed-falling-tree-...

122 mph in Eastern England in 1987


137mph off the north west coast of France