Storm ciara

[Kidds]

Crazy place Talacre. Not so long ago two horses got stuck in deep mud and the whole area was gridlocked with traffic. On an other occasion the council workers left the access gate to the beach carpark unlocked, with a very high tide due, and people returned to their cars to find them up to their radiator grills in sea water.

In '86 there wasn't a car park, you could just drive anywhere on the beach and cars with water in the headlights were quite common in spring tides.. Rank introduced the gates, locks etc when they bought the campsite further up the coast. There was still one old lady left living in the dunes at that time too, security from the campsite gave her a hard time too. RIP Lottie.

Sun is out now.

 

[sean m]

£80k at least

nah,half that,it needs a new engine and a good valeting

 

[Gong Farmer]

Must be improving, the old Severn Bridge has just been partially re-opened.

 

[Hindsight]

Touched 80mph wind here around 9am ... but if a zephyr tbh but a fair sluice of rain around 10.30.

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Has it blown away (literally) your Starlings?

 

[Christoph1945]

Sun breaking through here and rain stopped but still quite breezy but not at storm level.

 

[Kidds]

Must be improving, the old Severn Bridge has just been partially re-opened.

How partially? And what's the point if you can't go all the way over it.

 

[Ormond]

Cumbria, heavy rain over night and strong winds....water running everywhere when arriving at the farm this morning, a lot of water in fields standing 10am calmed down but heavy rain and strong wind again now at 2pm

 

[Jon 3085]

 

[Bald Rick]

Has it blown away (literally) your Starlings?

No ... they’ve all moved in to the sheds. All the better to sh!t all over the cows

 

[Still Farming]

Early Bristol not too bad , old Serern Bridge closed ,new one 40mph limits, closed in heavy rain ,then around here ,lots of small wood out of trees etc blown out onto roads, wind strong with showers and sunny periods now??

 

[valtra]

Almost Desmond levels at 10am this morning then it all stopped for an hour or two river level dropped slightly, but just started raining again with strong gales.. Cumbria

 

[Lincs Lass]

Blue ish skies ,suns trying to break out but the wind has dropped

 

[Hindsight]

No ... they’ve all moved in to the sheds. All the better to sh!t all over the cows

I ticked like although hardly appropriate in the circumstances. I see that Starlings are still on the Red list. Bizarre.

 

[topground]

Tree down in North Somerset (again FFS!)

 

[Red Fred]

Judging from the way the Ifor is bouncing about on its springs outside the kitchen window, the wind is actually getting gustier here.

 

[Adeptandy]

She doesn't trust anyone else with her cattle!
"You're not doing it right"
"That's the wrong bucket"

I get that with the dogs

 

[Lowland1]

Blown the roof of our old feed/mill shed. I saw it on the cctv here in Kenya told my Dad but he can't open the house door to have a look because it's blowing too much.

 

[Northeastfarmer]

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Tree down in North Somerset (again FFS!)

I absolutely KNEW you’d put that pic up...I nearly tagged you ???

 

[Nearly]

Blown the roof of our old feed/mill shed. I saw it on the cctv here in Kenya told my Dad but he can't open the house door to have a look because it's blowing too much.

Pictures! (sorry for the damage obviously)

 

[Sharpy]

Edge of the rain just passing over now, not much between here and America.
Just normal weather for west of Scotland, most of January has been like this, and often is.

"If your going out stay out, keep that bloody door shut" kind of day.View attachment 857508

A familiar scene.