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Time to consult the old interactrive Ventusky weather map. Wind speeds at the moment along the Cornish coast are around 40 - 50mph which is nothing out of the ordinary, but it looks like Wales is going to hit badly.
https://www.ventusky.com/?p=54.0;-4.7;5&l=wind-10m
That's a very interesting site, Joe, but have you found it to be reasonably accurate?
Should we say the gales in Wales will decimate their sails?
Sorry... the coffee hasn't kicked in yet and I'm feeling silly.
Should we say the gales in Wales will decimate their sails?
Sorry... the coffee hasn't kicked in yet and I'm feeling silly.
That's a very interesting site, Joe, but have you found it to be reasonably accurate?
Hi Jack,
It's the same site that quite a few newspapers use, and winds are now dying down here, just as it shows. A while back I did a demo in Webplus showing how to add it to your website
Joe
I'm rather hacked off because our home weather station anemometer stopped working a few days ago, after only having been working again for a couple of months since the last time it stopped working. It requires a reset, which is fine if you don't mind shinning up a ladder to get the whole shebang down from something like 30 foot up. Which neither OH or I can do.
The lovely chap who has re-done our bathroom helped us get it reset just before Christmas, after 5 months of no windspeed readings. When OH got back to the people he bought it from they told him it needs resetting again, just as before. Obviously, the last few days have made it too risky to be shinning up ladders so Glyn will sort it for us when things calm down again.
OH is too nice. If it was me, I'd be demanding a new weather station as it is not fit for purpose if you have to keep resetting the anemometer every couple of months. If it goes again, I think he will finally kick up a stink.
In the meantime, when I'd really like to know what the windspeed is, I'm left with nothing. 
It hasn't been too bad here in the Midlands so far. Only now does the wind seem to be really picking up. OH and his bee-keeping friend Chris are hoping that their hives in the various out-apiaries come through unscathed. Chris said she'll be taking her binoculars when they go to have a look tomorrow as one of the sites is a bit muddy at the best of times. When they went a few days ago, the farmer offered to take them over in his 4WD, and even that managed to get bogged down, so it may just be a quick look from a distance, and hope all is well.
Still, one thing amuses us. My late Mother-in-Law was called Eunice. We wonder what she would have thought about having a storm bearing her name, and it being likely to be the worst one in 32 years. 
Sorry... the coffee hasn't kicked in yet and I'm feeling silly.
Robert,
Being silly is a prerequisite for joining this forum and for being Welsh. This is the longest town name in Wales:
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch
Google it and see, and then tell me if that's silly.
Joe
This is the longest town name in Wales:
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch
Here’s a pronunciation guide:
(I’m not sure why they’ve put “llandus-ilio” instead of “llan-dusilio” or “llan-tusilio”, given that it refers to the seventh-century bishop, Saint Tysilio.)
Just been out to get the emptied recycle bin back in to safety, as the binmen (and bin lady) are still out and about today, despite the weather. I took a very quick walk up the back garden to look at the weather station. The post it is on is swaying like a good'un, and the little anemometer is whizzing around like crazy. Even in the relative shelter of the back garden, I was being blown around like mad.
It's not quite as strong, though, as the time we went up Addleborough in the Yorkshire Dales. Going up we were in the lee of the hill and thus protected, but once we got on top we estimated the wind was blowing, not gusting, at around a steady 40-50 knots. This based on the fact that neither of us could move forward very easily, and if we turned our backs and tried to lean back, it was impossible. We decided it was wiser to walk back the way we had come, rather than carrying on the round walk. It's probable that we could easily have been plucked off the path by the wind if we had continued on the route. Ah, memories... 
Sorry... the coffee hasn't kicked in yet and I'm feeling silly.
Robert,
Being silly is a prerequisite for joining this forum and for being Welsh. This is the longest town name in Wales:
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch
Google it and see, and then tell me if that's silly.
Joe
Not silly at all, a good bit of marketing strategy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHxO0UdpoxM
William
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