Thank you, DelightfuL! Hope for you it's snow only!!

Public transport isn't operating here either this afternoon.
It's slowly building up, but not really bad yet. But it's supposed to strike real fast.
I got 3 straps on the gates, car is parked around the corner, I checked the garage. Nothing more I can do but keep my fingers crossed.

My girl had to cross the bridge to go home this afternoon just before 3. I had already told her it wasn't smart during a real bad storm.
But she's so damned headstrong!
I was worried, hoping a colleague would convince her to go home early.
She phoned me just after noon to let me know that she was already on her way home!
I was SO relieved!! Advice is to not travel at all unless absolutely necessary, and certainly avoid bridges, and this one spans 6-7 kms from island to island, basically a stone-throw from the open sea.
But my girlie is safe!!

Right now it's almost unreal to think we're going to be hit by a vicious storm within an hour?

Oh well... fingers crossed that all will still be standing when it's done!

Holy moly, this is NOT funny
The sun is shining, as forecast but the wind...
This is worse than Ciara we had in 2020 or 2019!
And 5 more hours of this (the peak) to go, bloody hell!

I sympathise with you.

Nothing you can do but ride it out sadly.

Hoping you come out the other unscathed.

Despite the prediction of heavy snow we haven’t had any! I’m grateful for that. It’s just very windy but not stormy here.

Oh gosh, every time when I think it's getting a li'l better it gets worse again...

We just even got a National Alert via SMS (text).
That has NEVER happened before...

What I was thinking, how ridiculous government is. Telling people to work at home because of a virus that isn't really all that deadly, but when something happens that IS acutely dangerous they do NOT tell people to go home/stay home/work from home.

Anywho... 3,5 more hours than the peak should be over and normal storm force.
But seriously, this is INSANE!
Seen a lot of storms since I moved here 9,5 years ago, but never anything like this...

Sounds horrendous Crystal. Let’s hope that you don’t get to witness another!

Stay safe

No, once in a lifetime is enough, hihi.
I guess it's (been) pretty much the same as in England.

I put on a movie, like I had planned, so I don't hear the wind so much.
Cooking was also good in that sense as the extractor's noise cancel's out much of the wind too.

So far so good though! Everything's still standing. Fingers crossed that it'll keep for the 3,5 hrs of the peak that are left. . Basically halfway through that now.
Then it should get a little less, more like regular storm.
And I'm SO happy this peak was during the day. Had in been at night I wouldn't have slept much.

Well, we're out of Code Red now! There's still a storm with strong gusts but now more regular level.

And... everything is still standing!! I can NOT believe it!
The neighbours fence, which also borders my garden of course, is also still upright even though I've never seen it move like it did in this storm. I had actually expected that to go.

A few people have died in the storm, 3 because of falling trees.
Lots of damage, fencing, part of roofs, roof tiles flying round, accidents because of trucks blowing over etc. etc.
Urgent request to not call 112 (Dutch 999) unless there was danger of lives because calling centres couldn't handle it anymore.

Anywho, we should've had the worst of it, phew!!
Tomorrow I'll check if all the screws etc. are still okay and if my car got through undamaged. It's around the corner so I cannot see and I'm not going out now in the dark while there is still a storm.

4°C Showers

Rainfall in last 24 hrs 30mm
Humidity 87%
Wind 7 mph
Feels Like 2°C
Pressure 1001 hPa
Visibility 7 miles
UV Index 1
Air Quality 3

Potentially another storm could roll in tomorrow (Franklin). It’s not yet been declared a storm but severe winds are forecast.

Yes, this evening the wind will pick up again here in the SW, die down a bit during the night, and pick up again tomorrow late afternoon until early Monday morning, with stronger gusts than tonight.

They're giving us a treat for sure :/

8C a very sunny morning! Now more clouds are rolling in.

9°C Mostly Cloudy

Rainfall in last 24 hrs 21 mm
Humidity 87%
Wind 24 mph
Feels Like 5°C
Pressure 987 hPa
Visibility 6 miles
UV Index 0
Air Quality 3

10C overcast & grey, showers, storm winds building up.

Gone from Code Yellow to Code Orange. Very strong storm gusts.
This will go on all night, again/still very strong storm gusts tomorrow until late afternoon.
Then wind will be NW which is the worst possible for me.
Oh joy.
I'm seriously sick and tired of this chit now!

9°C Partly Cloudy

Rainfall in last 24 hrs 25 mm
Humidity 73%
Wind 23 mph
Feels Like 5°C
Pressure 1005 hPa
Visibility 10 miles
UV Index 1
Air Quality 3

Well Storm Franklin went all through the night with very heavy rain alongside very strong winds. Thankfully the winds have abated now.

Found a video on YouTube which shows a small clip of my area during Storm Franklin

Phew, that water was really high up in your area!
Happy to hear it's over for you there and you successfully weathered 3 storms.
I read S England had 196 kmph gusts!! Way off the Beaufort chart, insane! Here we had 145 during Eunice which is also of the Beaufort.

Over here we still got some hours to go. Wind should die down end afternoon/evening.
Then tomorrow it'll pick up again but more regular storm force (hopefully!).

Everyone's totally fed up with it, even the Zeeuwen, the people from this province, that usually quite like hard wind.

Over here also lot of accidents with trucks, esp during Eunice. I don't understand why they hit the road when people were clearly told to not go out unless strictly necessary.
If you say something about that you get a lot of flak, as if they're sacred, but I feel it's totally insane. It means rescue workers have to risk their lives to sort out the mess, other people in traffic are endangered by it, damaged trucks etc. etc.
One trucker got badly injured and ended up in hospital.
Then WTH drive through that weather?
4 people have died due to the storms, I believe all cos of falling trees.

Anywho, let's hope this was it for this year. Or the next 5, haha.


OT - 9C currently blue skies and sun while the storm is still raging.

8°C Drizzle

Rainfall in last 24 hrs 5 mm
Humidity 74%
Wind 22 mph
Feels Like 3°C
Pressure 1007 hPa
Visibility 9 miles
UV Index 1
Air Quality 3

11C overcast, showers expected, wind will pick up again to some 7 Beaufort. So 1 strap on the gates again.

8°C Mostly Cloudy

Rainfall in last 24 hrs 3 mm
Humidity 80%
Wind 29 mph
Feels Like 2°C
Pressure 1005 hPa
Visibility 9 miles
UV Index 0
Air Quality 3

We have a yellow warning for snow and lightning for the next 24 hrs.

11C we had a fair amount of sun this afternoon! Now it's mostly overcast.
Wind is still 6 Beaufort, and cold, but when walking in the sun it was nice!

Code Yellow for tomorrow, again bad storm gusts. Hotdangit! Fed up with that shizzel!

63F/17C
Sunny and windy
Goes back to being winter tomorrow, haha

2°C Mostly Cloudy

Wintry Mix in last 24 hrs 33 mm
Humidity 90%
Wind 16 mph
Feels Like -4°C
Pressure 999 hPa
Visibility 10 miles
UV Index 0
Air Quality 3

Yesterday’s prediction came true. Had a lot of snow fall in a short time. All is white here!