The British Storm - It's gone get bad.

Well I'm in Portsmouth and the wind was pretty strong last night, but now it's just a little bit windy... Bit of a let down really. Some of our garden fence is missing though so that's something.

It seems like your storm has moved on to the Netherlands and it's quite windy out here, but nothing to bad. Its supposed to get worse during the afternoon. But as of right now it's kinda tame

An infra-red view from around 30 minutes ago. It was a veritable falcon punch of a front that struck, then drifted into the mainland. Curious to see how the glans top will dissolve over time.

Same in Germany . In my place I got a red weather warning from 8 in the Morning to 8 in the evening. Looks quite dark outside and somewhat windy but nothing serious so far.

Cor fuckin ell!

My fence fell over.

Nothing to speak of in Gothenburg yet. Some rain, but that's hardly out of the ordinary. Last I heard the front got postponed from 1500 to 2000 local time. Guess we'll see in a few hours. From the sound of it the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute is still considering winds of 30-40 m/s a possibility but I seriously doubt that.

Oh, they also named it "Simone".

Didn't even knock over my wheelie bin.

Still, the news coverage frightened me into finally getting home insurance so I guess I should be thankful that I was nudged into being a responsible adult without the drag of having the small tree outside my house go through the window.

edit: My boss was supposed to be phoning me today but hasn't yet. I think he was in Southampton over the weekend. HAS HE BEEN WASHED OUT TO SEA!?

Storm seemed ok for me, living in London we don't really have that many trees to be knocked over. I think at one point this morning 10 of the 13 tube lines were closed, weirdly/luckily enough for me I only had to use 2 of the 3 open ones to make it work!

Anyway, hope all other UK duders made it out unscathed and without trees crushing cars/houses/dreams.

I live in Essex and the storm knocked out power for 5 hours and removed 3 panels from my garden fence! Hope all you fellow UK duders are doing ok.

WHY GOD WHY?!?!

We all break bad sooner or later.

It was a bit windy.

The bastard's hitting Finland in the next couple of hours. Time to break out an ancient vinyl copy of Belarusian organ music that I found from my dads basement and pour me a glass of bourbon. I'm one of those crazy bastards who enjoys a good storm, but I will have to go clear out some trees and hopefully not too many broken boats and piers at our seaside cabin next weekend. Any repairs would have to be done in the next few weeks before the ice sets in.

@canteu: Newcastle duders checking in :D

It was windy but only slightly more than usual. Kinda disappointed in the lack of danger.

@mx said:

A huge tree got lifted, roots and all, and fell sideways in my neigbourhood. It was a hefty tree too. It was pretty bad to be on the streets.

I live near old street in London where there is an enormous beach ball tethered on top of a roundabout; it got blown off. Super hilarious.

All it did was rain a bit for us, which is what it always does.