Mikes weather bits & Photo Blog: The Storm & locally the storm (updates will be added)

Wednesday 30 December 2015

The Storm & locally the storm (updates will be added)

Once again nothing new on the front page of the Express with "Frank" the latest storm battering the UK this morning

This Sky News story has reports from Ireland where the storm hit first and there's a video of the collapsing Tadcaster bridge just before 17:00 yesterday.

the 06:00 rain radar this morning shows Scotland and to a lesser degree the Lake District getting the full force of the storm and a quite large area of rain just leaving the Irish coast, the storm does appear to be tracking North West so locally we might not get too much rain.

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These two pics front a story in the Mail about looters in York stories of people in "white vans" targeting flooded houses. Reports say that it is "unbelievably cruel" and that it was "impossible to comprehend" why heartless opportunists would want to bring further suffering to those already hit by the crisis. - - - sad - - -

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straying from the weather, only a short while i noticed this on the BBC's "Tech" page. The Fairphone 2 is a modular designed phone for those who want to poke around inside it. There's a video in the story about hoe easy it is to take apart or add/change a module. Great idea but at not far off £400 i dont think its a goer. Why the Fairphone 2? because there was/is a Fairphone 1

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the http://www.xcweather.co.uk/ wind and isobar chart shows the current storm having its effect right now

the Rain chart has some rain now in the far South of the UK which probably means locally we will see more rain very quickly

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Local stats are showing a double figure Temp and 20.8mph on the anemometer it doesn't record gusts just a general reading every 5 minutes so its some indication of how consistent it is just now

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Knowing the weather was going to change I determined to do a bit of tidying up at the logging site so it was an early start for me yesterday

just before crossing the river at Darley Bridge i snapped this pic of the sun coming up with Riber Castle illuminated on the skyline

with the moon still visible it was quite cold as the rabbits scurried away from my track down to the site

the first job was to make these smashed up rounds into log burner sized pieces and stack them under cover, so the i uncovered the pile in preparation

90 minutes later the jobs done and i turn my attention to the remnants of the tree

Moving all the small stuff to the pile i decided to get rid of the smaller branches onto the bonfire pile. By this time 11:40 the sun is on the area but its still quite cold in the biting wind. Time to return home
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update 08:35

still very windy with just a bit of rain - - more to come

scudding clouds at the moment they should turn black quite soon
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UPDATE 09:50

A heavy band of rain is sweeping up the valley South (L) to North (R) see it live on the webcam link below
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UPDATE 13:20