Thinking of our many friends in the UK now who have been such a part of our community and hope they are surviving the weather. The reports are pretty bad and those of us who have been thru really bad weather can certainly sympathize with them..Hope to hear from.them.soon.
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The storm has now moved east into central Europe (Saturday 10 December 2026). Cornwall and the Channel Islands experienced the strongest of the winds and much of Wales and the Midlands (middle England - Birmingham etc) had the most snowfall. Flooding may occur when the snow melts.
Today things are getting back to normal and next week will be much milder with south-westerly winds.
Those interested in the weather may like to click the following link which I have set to temperature, but you can use the menu to change to other things such as precipitation and even sea temperature. If you move the map to your home area, you might like to then bookmark it for future reference. https://www.windy.com/-Temperature-temp?temp,48.763,-5.757,5
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UK
1117 posts
The beautiful gardens at St Michael’s Mount have been badly hit. They report about 80% of their trees have been blown down.
A lot of trees down around the Penzance area, lots of people without power since Friday, but things have calmed down now.
I live in the SW on the coast, but not in the worst hit area. The winds were scary on Friday night even in my very modern snug little flat.
Posted by
Lincolnshire, UK
2856 posts
One of the advantages of living in North Lincolnshire is that bad weather usually misses us, and it did this time. It's been cold with frost but that's what we expect in January. Wer've also had some lovely sunny days with blue skies too...
Posted by
London
1072 posts
Thanks for thinking of us! In London we were relatively unaffected, all we got was some rain. Looks like it will start to get a bit warmer tomorrow, which I am looking forward to as I have not been enjoying the freezing temperatures (and trying to navigate icy pavements).
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Arctophilia, Northamptonshire, England
36279 posts
Thanks for thinking of us...
I personally haven't been particularly affected so we had rain but no snow, and hospital appointments continued apace.
15 miles west of me got quite a lot of snow, and where I used to live in the West Midlands got about a foot which is unheard of. Gritters grit the roads, but we don't have snowploughs.
Boaty friends of mine are both iced in and unmoveable, on at Foxton Locks near Market Harborough and one at Braunston near Daventry. The southern of the two felt there may be melting and they may be able to move in a day or two, the other has frozen slush on top of thick ice and isn't going anywhere.
Hard to melt ice in the shade at 2 degrees C (about 35 F).
Posted by
TX, USA
5883 posts
Thanks for reporting in, everyone! And Gail for asking!
Posted by
Duluth, MN🌲
11189 posts
The beautiful gardens at St Michael’s Mount have been badly hit. They report about 80% of their trees have been blown down.
Oh no, I'm so sorry to hear that, Golden Girl! I really hope that the worst is over. And thanks so much for the updates, everyone.
Posted by
Lake District, England
11114 posts
The weather has also been rough in the north of Scotland for over a week now, with a lot of snow.
Last Sunday all Church services were cancelled in Shetland as it simply wasn't safe to go anywhere, and this Sunday (tomorrow) all but two services (in Lerwick, and on Whalsay) are now cancelled. Last week the presbytery had an online service (from Aberdeen), not sure about this week.
At least it was just about good enough last night for Scalloway Fire Festival (the first Up Helly Aa of the season) to go ahead.
Aberdeenshire has been particularly badly affected on the Scottish mainland.