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Same here in Germany. Airports in northern Germany are expected to close down on Sunday, those in southern Germany during Monday morning. The DB has already suspended the train binding for Sparpreis tickets, so that if there is a train cancelled (expect many of them) one can always change to an other one. However, anyone who can avoid a trip on Sunday afternoon or Monday should do so.

BTW, "our" storm calls herself Sabine.

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Here it is called Kade and is in New England now. Expecting to shave a good hour off flights to Europe this weekend.

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I'm a bit nervous. My chimney is in dire need of repointing but I keep putting it off due to the cost of scaffolding (no-one will climb a roof with a ladder any more!). Living on top off a seafront hill taking the brunt of every coastal storm means my house requires a lot of maintenance. The worry is that my bedroom is in the loft conversion with my bed lying almost directly underneath the chimney.

If it goes all quiet from me after Sunday you'll know why.

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Oh dear JC, hope all will be okay. Keep us posted.

For those in England, LNER posted an alternative timetable for tomorrow (Sunday Feb 9), noting that they are reducing their schedule due to the impending storm.

https://www.lner.co.uk/travel-information/travelling-now/travel-alerts/

Other companies may be following suit.

If I were traveling (or living) anywhere in Ireland or the UK, I would be checking my transport provider's website over the next couple of days.

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If I were traveling (or living) anywhere in Ireland or the UK, I would be checking my transport provider's website over the next couple of days.

Yes, but not just the British Isles. Whilst it is expected to give a battering there, it is also expected to move into northern France and the Low Countries.

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That's right, of course, Nick. I know Brittany and Normandy are preparing this evening.

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Sam...BA set a new subsonic record for NYC to London at 4 hrs 56 mins. It reached 800 mph.

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While BA set the record for NY to London, flights going the other way took up to two hours longer.

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This is going to annoy some people, including JC if his chimney pot is now in his bedroom, but where I currently am (a bit south east of Birmingham), its been a fuss about nothing. Yes, windy and some rain, but currently I can see blue sky and its quite mild.

Now obviously other parts of the country have been worse affected. There has been damage, floods and injuries. But despite the "storm" name, nowhere does it seem to have been like those storms that hit and devastate the US/Caribbean east coasts. A lot of the transport disruptions seem to be cancellations in anticipation, rather than actual consequences.

Storm names were introduced in Britain to make people more aware of incoming bad weather. Fair enough, but part of the unintentional effect seems to have been to get the media to panic excessively.

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Fortunately the chimney is holding steady but neighbours have been losing fence panels, there's debris of all sorts in the streets and the rain has been coming down in buckets but yes, it is just a bit windy, nothing like The Great Storm of '87.

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Glad that the chimney is holding and thus the bedroom is still dry! May it stay that way.

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They’ve closed the Eiffel Tower this afternoon due to the strong and gusty winds.

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Glad things are going ok for Emma and JC.

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JC and Emma, relieved you escaped the worst of the storm.

How does it compare to The Great Storm of '94 that took out the church window at Dibley?

Regards Ron

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We have been at the Florence airport most all day. Our flight to Munich was cancelled and luckily we were able to rebook on a later flight.

But an Austrian friend of mine has been transit waiting to pick us up at MUC.

Hopefully about to board.

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I was watching the National news this am and watched a plane attempting to land in Birmingham. Sounds like Heathrow will also have some disruption.

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I can't describe how much I dislike the Weather Channel's new practice of naming of winter storms. It's simply a way to sensationalize weather. You will do much better paying attention to the National Weather Service - weather.gov. They don't sensationalize and are generally much more accurate on their forecasts.

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I can't describe how much I dislike the Weather Channel's new practice of naming of winter storms.

Neither do I (although it's our Meteorolgical Office that does it). We now have Storm Dennis coming this weekend, a few years ago the forecast would simply have been for strong winds and heavy rain.

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The Weather Channel was to blame with its coining of "St Jude's" which kind of forced the Met Office to do something 'official'. At least the names are the same for Ireland and the Netherlands, although it might be useful if Germany partnered too.

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Sadly, the storm blew over a crane that had been used to repair the slate roof on the Kaiserdom. Smashed the roof, ruining days of work and the church is now closed to get it repaired. No idea why they left it in place or didn't secure it better considering they were telling people to stay home, the S-bahns were barely running, and all the schools were closed. Expensive mistake.
https://www.fnp.de/frankfurt/frankfurt-ein-desaster-kran-stuerzt-sturm-sabine-dach-doms-13533041.html