Yellow weather warnings - sensible precautions or scaremongering?

I like Accuweather, Aveline and good old Alexa!

My BBC weather app is obviously not communicating with the met office. No snow mentioned for us at all. It's now bright and sunny after another nasty bout of snow. Luckily it didn't lie but the pavements were pretty slippy. Thank goodness for stout footwear.

Very resourceful, MayBee70! My inner girl guide is impressed!

I was just writing ‘ the house is shaking’ when the power went off. Didn’t come on till late last night and internet has only just come back on. We’d bought a carbonara from M&S with the intention of freezing it, but it said not freezable. It’s use by date was yesterday. My inner girl guide was reactivated and I put several tea lights in a loaf tin, put the carbonara in another loaf tin which I placed above it, wrapped the whole lot in foil and, voila, steaming hot carbonara! I hate food waste of any kind and couldn’t face throwing it out. I’m usually quite ambivalent about best before dates but take use by dates seriously, especially as the fridge obviously was no longer working. My led light beanie hat served its purpose and I read more in one day than I’ve read in months.

Thank you all. Our boundary fence is large and is always vulnerable, because there is a field next to it and the wind always comes from that direction.
I'm just glasd the wind has died down, but is now snowing here.

Sorry to hear about your damage, Marydoll, hope you manage to get things sorted out with the minimum of fuss. OH has just been out with his chainsaw to help the neighbour further down the lane who was blocked in by the fallen tree. Two other neighbours had said they would help him, but then didn't bother to turn up. Maybe the snow put them off...

Family in Donegal without power since yesterday early morning

Marydoll

Enjoy the ballet Maw and safe journey.

Unfortunately, we have thousands of pounds of damage to deal with this morning and carnage in the garden to deal with. 😔

So very sorry to hear this.

DD and SIL have just left. They came down to see if they could help. I sent them home, because they live higher up in a village and it has started to snow. DD has just sent pictures of their garden, with a covering of snow.

At least the roof is OK, that was my main worry.

Aveline

Unbelievable!! Now it's snowing. Not forecast at all. Get a grip Met Office

Snow was certainly forecast for Scotland today, not a red /amber/yellow warning though.

Marydoll

Enjoy the ballet Maw and safe journey.

Unfortunately, we have thousands of pounds of damage to deal with this morning and carnage in the garden to deal with. 😔

Oh dear, Marydoll
Hope you're insured and that the company is helpful. Our neighbours had the same with Darragh and the insurance company were very prompt in clearing up the fallen tree at least.

RosiesMaw2

I hope nobody suffered any damage, or even worse, injury yesterday and that this particular storm has blown itself over the horizon.
All my travel plans went well, GD is here with me and we are off to London and “Ballet Shoes” later this morning 🩰

Enjoy yourselves, hope the weather is as lovely there as it is here 🌞

Marydoll
sorry to hear about the damage.
It was frightening here, but we are unscathed, except for some very dirty windows. The rain and wind must’ve been carrying a load of dust with it.

But there was a good frost earlier on the flat roofs I can see from my bedroom window. Bedroom was rather chilly too - unheated apart from the residual heat that comes up from the livingroom below it. Cosy when I'm actually in bed

Aveline

Unbelievable!! Now it's snowing. Not forecast at all. Get a grip Met Office

Not in this part of town, Aveline Your head must be above the snowline.

Aveline

Unbelievable!! Now it's snowing. Not forecast at all. Get a grip Met Office

It’s been reported several times this morning.

It was predicted here in Glasgow, so the Met Office got it right!
We had a covering of snow during the night.

Unbelievable!! Now it's snowing. Not forecast at all. Get a grip Met Office

Enjoy the ballet Maw and safe journey.

Unfortunately, we have thousands of pounds of damage to deal with this morning and carnage in the garden to deal with. 😔

It was lovely to wake up this morning to peace perfect peace. No more howling winds battering the building. Phew. Just the damage to deal with now.

I hope nobody suffered any damage, or even worse, injury yesterday and that this particular storm has blown itself over the horizon.
All my travel plans went well, GD is here with me and we are off to London and “Ballet Shoes” later this morning 🩰

We ve had nothing here in East Anglia just ordinary windy winter days with some sunshine and blue skies

That's good to hear, OldFrill. Thankfully, our power has remained on, although the lights have flickered a good few times. Large tree has been blown over right across our back lane, although luckily it's a bit further down from us so we could still get out if we needed too. Neighbours further down are going to be stuck in until they can get someone with a chainsaw to deal with it.

The emergency services, utility engineers and essential staff who work in the conditions we experienced today are second to none. Our power was out for a mere four hours which was amazing given the conditions.

escaped

TerriBull

In our small island, the disparity in the weather is staggering, commiserations to those who are being battered. I've just come home from a supermarket shop, here in my corner of the south east it's now calm, normal day, hardly any wind, it was a bit wilder earlier.

Not too bad here in Devon. I've seen worse.
Hope everyone in the danger zone stays safe.

Same here, rain this morning but then quite a nice day if a bit windy.