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4 persons died, all hit by blown over trees.
A lot of damage.
Countless trees downed, damaging cars, railroads, and buildings, also roofs ripped off buildings and lorries blown over.

Speeds up to 145 km/h have been measured.
Rather unusual, these speeds were measured inland.
Normally it's the coast that sees the highest winds.

On a happy note, an 18-year old girl living in the south-west of the country received quite a bit of media coverage.
Her name: Eunice Storm.

The wind wasn't too bad in NW England yesterday, but we've now got snow - proper big fluffy flakes! Temperature is about 3C so it probably won't stick. More high winds forecast for Sunday and Monday.

At 6pm it is 15C

It's 4C here, and we had a bit of snow this morning. It disappeared almost as quickly as it fell.

We've had two fronts go through. First left hail holes in my newly planted lettuce and did not fully cover the bottom of my rain gauge. Second brought a chilly day and no rain. We are watching a Monarch chrysalis that's just about ready to open- I think it must be waiting for a little warmer sunnier day.

We have arctic air moving across our island. Temperature -2, dewpoint -12 winds NE15G42.

The wind died down here this afternoon as Franklin trotted out of sight. The sun came out and it was warm. If time had allowed I'd have put my chair outside for a cuppa

Sorry Joan (and others) I did not mean to cause so much damage.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/17710179/ ... in-eunice/

Woke up this morning in Northern Virginia and the weather app on my phone says it will be a high of 67^oF today and tomorrow will be in the 30s and sleeting. This has got to be the 4th time (at least) we've had that kind of weather change from one day to the next this winter. Absolutely maddening.

On the plus side, the wind seems to have finally died down. It never got quite as bad here as in the U.K., but Friday I did spend the better part of the day chasing garbage bins and garbage down the street and it was absolutely frigid then.

We've had a lot of those sudden temperature changes too here in the Pittsburgh area!

pommystuart wrote: ↑Tue Feb 22, 2022 10:21 pm Sorry Joan (and others) I did not mean to cause so much damage.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/17710179/ ... in-eunice/

No problem Stuart - I've got a broom ready any time you want to turn up and sweep up

Glad I did not take the caravan up to Queensland.
Up to 80,000 homes flooded.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-02-27/ ... 100864896?

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-02-27/ ... 100864790?

775mm of rain in 24hrs caused this flooding at Lismore NSW 28/02/2022.
6 1/2 hrs North of our place and its heading South. Expected to weaken a bit.

Good luck. Check your flippers and goggles. Seriously though I hope you are OK and stay safe.

Sure hope it weakens a lot before it gets to you!!!

Thanks for the thoughts.
If the BOM is correct then the deepening low and amplified upper trough should drift southward parallel to the coast.
They think the worst should miss my region and effect the coastal areas further southward.
They are still coping it up north.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-03-01/ ... 100869912?

At the bottom of that page is an interesting article on Solar storms.

WOW!!! Poor people!!!

Stuart, I saw your post about the flooding north of you and today saw a news report of flooding in Sydney. As I understand- you must have been in the direct path. Hoping everything is OK with you.

Where I am has faired well with the weather, some areas north and south have copped a beating with flooding up to the roof level.
We only had 73mm yesterday, some areas have had 700+ in 24hrs.
The rain seems to be diminishing now but it will take a long time to sort out the mess.
Thanks for your thoughts.