General Chat

Cheers Teresa :)

I have just seen the rescue helicopter heading over the top of our house and out to along the coast now to, never a good sign.

update on iow

The hovercraft from Portsmouth to Ryde has been suspended, while the Red Jet catamaran service and the Red Funnel vehicle ferry between Southampton and the Isle of Wight were cancelled earlier

&O Ferries cancelled its Sunday sailing from Portsmouth to Bilbao, Spain, and the return journey on Tuesday

Solent Coastguard to expect more gales up to violent storm force 11. Ferries across the region have been affected.

Southsea seafront has been closed to traffic and floodgates in Old Portsmouth have been shut after a warning of very high tides.

tanker with 13 crew on board is in difficulty off the Isle of Wight as the island experienced 70mph gusts.

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/satpics/latest_IR.html

These will show the path of the storms and where they are now...^^

Well im back for a while lol It seems the thunder was just the odd clap and it brightened back up for a while. Its very odd here right at the moment as you just cannot seem to predict what is going to happen next. Its going really dark and one moment the wind dies down and then comes back with a vengance.

About two hours ago the wind and rain stopped and then turned to sunshine on the east Yorkshire coast but starting to dull down again now

Penny, just looked on the satellite pics, and although we have had it rough in Norwich this morning and it has brightened upa bit, though still very windy...the worst is about to hit us.

On the pic, there is a huge bank of cloud covering the whole country...then a gap, then a swirling part...that is the part that is over southern england at the moment and contains the thunder and worst winds..

The edge of that is about an hour away from me ...

Just a quick message before I switch off for a while.

Here right on the coast of the solent the wind has started to pick up and a thunder storm has just started with it. I came past the solent about an hour ago and looking at it I would be very surprised if any of the ferries to the isle of wight would be running at this time, the sea is really rough and the tide seems larger then normal.

We are not quite in the middle of this storm yet but hopefully it wont get too much worse then it has been.

Catch up soon :)

I live in Herne Bay, North Kent Coast - wasn't too bad when I left out at 6.30am this morning - bit windy - but the trains into London were put on a go slow, causing delays.

Was quite scary being on the train and feeling the force of the wind against it.

Now it's chucking it down and still windy outside (City of London).

If anyone else is going to be travelling on Southeastern trains - they recommended checking for cancellations/delays before travelling today.

Athena

Am doing my yearly trip to I.O.W next Monday (in dad's memory). hope weather changes for then
Janet

had my washing out this morning, lovely and sunny but it is clouding over now. I'm in S. Yorks
Janet

It was lovely blue skies and sunshine when i got up about 7am. We have since had some heavy rain and strong winds and just had about an inch of hail stones here in South Wales

Alyson

It said on the news that a lot of people in Cornwall have power done......hope yours holds out LWH.

It's been blowing a hoolie......and raining here on East Coast Norfolk since 9am...its starting to ease a bit and the sun keeps peeping out.......more to come later probably.
Glad I'm indoors again after getting our weekly big shop.

Thoughts and prayers are with you all in Cornwall, Devon and IoW... they seem to be having it badly as Joy said...

we are off Warning and now on Watch for the time being, thank goodness.
Love

Daff xxx

its mild weather in middlesbrough

so far

but good luck our Cornish friends

who according to the news

have it bad at the moment

at the moment its blue sky and sunshine ,in my part of east sussex....i got up to the vllage and back in the lull. the wind is begining to get up again now. iris

2nd wave of storm just reached portsmouth it's gone really dark and rain is lashing down.

My poor little dog is hiding under the computer desk.

lorraine

Its not to bad here in Manchester, but we are on the Gulf stream now.
Dx

steve

not looking good for iow i'm afraid just looked up on the website this if the info if you want to check it



Portsmouth - Ryde Service - 10th March 2008
Please be advised that due to high winds in the Solent, the Portsmouth to Ryde Catamaran service is operating on a trip-by-trip basis subject to the weather conditions at the time.

Passengers are advised to call Wightlink on 0871 376 1000 to check the latest situation. Wightlink would like to apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

Woke up to sunshine and went out early to do what had to be done. It is raining now and very black weather for our area says worst will hit this afternoon and tomorrow.

Staying put now.

Linda x