Your current weather.

[Alicecow]

Nice day! Calm, mostly dry, mild.

8.20pm gentle rain started. Pressure steady at 74.5cmHg. Humidity up from 65% to 68% since this morning.

Hurricane Ophelia due to arrive around 6am.
RTE news saying it's "the worst storm to hit Ireland since 1961".
RTE weather saying " mild with showers, becoming heavy at times"

Next thing we'll have Teresa Mannion hanging onto a lamppost and telling us not to make any unnecessary journeys

 

[Alicecow]

 

[7610 super q]

Very dark, windy, and very warm. Possibly the warmest day since June.

Weird.

 

[Wombat]

Showers and fog. No wind so far, mild also

 

[Alicecow]

1025 hrs pressure down to 72.6 cmHg. Rain starting too. Wet rain at that.

Has any pointed out that this is hurricane Ophelia, technically now ex hurricane, but that's just technicality.

 

[Gong Farmer]

Everything's yellow!

Edit: now it's black. Is there an eclipse or something associated with this storm ?

 

[Alicecow]

Bright sunshine now!

 

[ollieN4]

Same thought crossed my mind this morning! It's getting blowey here in the midlands but my post still arrived about 10mins ago - well done An Post!

 

[bobk]

Very dark , it's that Juncker bloke switched the lights off .

 

[Spartacus]

Apparently the orange/ red sun is due to the wind direction, something to do with sands from the Sahara and wild fires in Portugal coming north with the hurricane!

 

[bumkin]

its a bit breezy here particularly up on the cliffs

 

[Alicecow]

Very wet & very windy here since 2pm (now 4pm). Nasty weather. Pressure 71.0 cmHg.

 

[bovrill]

It's like looking at the world through a pair of those orange sunglasses at the moment!
Warm and windy otherwise (not as windy as some are getting it, I'm sure).

 

[Still Farming]

Really dark this morning like an eclipse twilight until 11.30 am with car lights on etc.
Eerie .

 

[bumkin]

funny thing about tv they think we need some one out side freezing their t-ts of and p-s wet through to tel us what the weather is out side we know we can look out the window or in our case we have been out in it because we have to

 

[RushesToo]

@Old McDonald How is it with you - hope you are fire free and all your trees are standing?

 

[Old McDonald]

Fine thank you Rushes. A fairly big one (by Portuguese standards - nowhere like Australia or the US for size) started about 2 miles from us yesterday and did not get within a mile.

Another bloke, from about 5 miles away, and I work together a bit and he is presently in South Africa so I checked his place this morning. The fire missed him by about 200 yards. A very strong SW wind quite miraculously kept the fire in timber country and missed (I think) all habitation. It was within about 50 yards of the edge of a village and just brushed the walls of a building that is sometimes inhabited.

I intend to begin the olive harvest on Thursday provided it is not raining too much and expect it to take about a month. Apart from a bit of moisture stress (difficult to keep up the correct amount of irrigation near harvest) they are all OK thank you.

I am reliably informed (my son is part of the Jodrell Bank team at Manchest University) that the 4% atmospheric transparency in parts of the UK is due to Saharan dust. Nothing to do with fires in Portugal because the wind is taking the smoke in a different direction to the UK.

29.7ºC here yesterday - abnormally high, but that is for discussion on the Global Warming thread.

 

[franklin]

Windy. Was warm, now cooler.

 

[Old Boar]

Not looking forward to Sat now...

Rain too this time. I may refuse to pay my council tax if this carries on!

 

[linga]

Not looking forward to Sat now...
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Rain too this time. I may refuse to pay my council tax if this carries on!

No need to withhold council tax...max gusts probably only going to be 48 !