Poll: Winter 2021/22 - Will we see lots of snow?

What will we see this winter?

  • Snow blizzards and minus 50 degrees

    Votes: 60 15.5%

  • Drizzle and wind

    Votes: 241 62.4%

  • Hurricane Pancakes

    Votes: 72 18.7%

  • Highest xxxx since records began

    Votes: 78 20.2%
  • Total voters
    386
Im not going to temp fate again, very very windy and its making me very nervous, keep doing checks, found out the problem with my plastic greenhouse panes(replaced my broken glass ones) are they bow and become too narrow so been down with the gorrila tape
 
What we didn't get yesterday we are certaily getting it now.

Had to rig up a very easy way for dustman to undo strap I have put around the bin to hold it shut till they come tomorrow - also all rubbish is in a dustbin bag and sealed with a cable strap, I now hope it is heavy enough to survive the winds of tonight.
 
think this is the worst of it 70mph for the next few hours ,lost another greenhouse quarter pane ,but the tiles are chattering ,if i get through this winter maybe need to get a roof ladder and stixall them down
 
problem in cambridgeshire is the dam thunder/lightening/hail - 40mph wind alone, or 70's from Friday would be fine for going out.
 
el_dazza said:
It honestly feels windier now than it did on Friday..
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Didn't really notice while on the turbo trainer, but now I've stopped, tamer here than Fri 1000-1300... Tree opposite hasn't lost any more 7m+ branches and not read about any houses losing roof like Fri on Pound St!:eek:
 
Very wet and quite windy in Surrey. Not as bad as Friday though.

I managed to fix my front fence this afternoon. Happily the rokstraps I used to tether it to a post during Friday's storm stopped any further damage and I was able to use some brackets today to permanently fix it. No big damage done. Next weekend I'll take a look at the two trellises along the back fence which have come down.
 
Hades said:
Very wet and quite windy in Surrey. Not as bad as Friday though.

I managed to fix my front fence this afternoon. Happily the rokstraps I used to tether it to a post during Friday's storm stopped any further damage and I was able to use some brackets today to permanently fix it. No big damage done. Next weekend I'll take a look at the two trellises along the back fence which have come down.
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Yep.. Surrey a bit further out .. Tipping down and blowing a gale. Cold and miserable. Better go and get a beer :)

Oh.. and the lights keep blinking.
 
Fixed the gate yesterday just in time for tonight's wind :)

Roofer is busy until next Saturday however, just hoping I don't get any more damage before then (already 1 tile broken, and 2 more looked to have slipped - all on the very edge row)
 
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Horendous rain, and now a power cut which didn't happen with Eunice! Bit of snow forecast for tonight now too lol.
 
I've just left the fence where it fell, two panels but another panel and post are for the bin as well moving around a lot.
I can't even walk up stairs without being out of breath after having Covid, so doing any garden work is not on the cards for now.
Neighbor seems completely uninterested in it so I'll probably just remove the fence and leave it like that.
 
The wind has really picked up once again down here in Southampton. Hope we don't have a power cut our house lights have flickered a few times.
 
Jesus another storm wasn't it supposed to be over? Its blowing a gale out there not nice driving over the bypass in that and the rain. The building next along has a number of roofing tiles down not the red kind but the big heavy concrete type the turf in front looks like a load of unexploded shells have landed all various roofing tiles sticking out at various angles

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How to do you think this compared to the great storm of 1987? I know we got a new record for the strongest gust of 122 of the isles off Scilly, but I think the 1987 storm was a lot worse from what I remember in terms of actual destruction.
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Not even on teh same planet '87 was apocalyptic it wasn't just gusts it was a sustained blast the like of which I've never heard before or since almost every house down my road had a tree through its roof whole avenues of trees down local parks trees were almost totally flattened main road blocked most of the day phones down for the best part of a week power out for something like 5 hours. The whole town looked like a war zone. Eunice had a few downed trees across the county some train disruption and big waves on the beach. And thats about it.

UTmaniac said:
I would have been 13 back in the '87 storm, but back then I was living in Heswall in Wirral and I don't recall the storm hitting us at all up there.
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No it wasn't I remember because some telephone engineers turned up to sort out the phones and they were scousers they'd been bussed in from up north because there simply weren't enough engineers down here to sort it all out and they said they'd seen it on the news but couldn't believe how bad it was and that was almost a week later.
 
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I was 9 years old during the '87 storm. We moved up to Southampton from Plymouth a few months prior, I still remember it now. I guess being so young and never experiencing anything quite like that before gave me those everlasting memories. We lost all power in the house for 3 days, the house was being redecorated so we had no carpets in several rooms. Floor boards were up where dad was redoing all the central heating himself. We lived a few days by candlelight wrapped up in douvets and blankets. Trees where down everywhere locally, a house in the street even lost it's roof. Crazy storm that was, even though the ones we are having now are bad, they're nothing compared to '87, or that's how it feels to me now.
 
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