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Non-Wargaming Discussion => Chat & News => Topic started by: Techno on 10 August 2014, 08:03:28 AM

Title: Hurricane Bertha ?
Post by: Techno on 10 August 2014, 08:03:28 AM
Anyone notice it ?
Rained a fair amount early this morning, over here...But nothing really out of the ordinary.
Didn't notice anything that you could call a gale though. :-\
Cheers - Phil
Title: Re: Hurricane Bertha ?
Post by: Leman on 10 August 2014, 08:45:20 AM
Raining this morning on the Lancs coast and a bit of a breeze. Gorgeous yesterday though.
Title: Re: Hurricane Bertha ?
Post by: fsn on 10 August 2014, 08:51:06 AM
Bit rainy in Runcorn.

You'd not make a disaster movie about it.
Title: Re: Hurricane Bertha ?
Post by: Duke Speedy of Leighton on 10 August 2014, 09:45:37 AM
Wet as a wet thing here.
Title: Re: Hurricane Bertha ?
Post by: Techno on 10 August 2014, 10:11:11 AM
Hah !

I knew I was pushing it.
About 15 minutes after I posted we had a nice thunderstorm.....It positively hurled it down for a while then !
Still very little in the way of wind, though. (Wait for the comments !  ;))
Cheers - Phil.
Title: Re: Hurricane Bertha ?
Post by: Hertsblue on 10 August 2014, 10:37:38 AM
Apparently the A10 Great Cambridge Road was under water up near Cambridge. Nothing much around here, though.
Title: Re: Hurricane Bertha ?
Post by: Sandinista on 10 August 2014, 10:53:57 AM
There was very heavy rain and strong winds earlier this morning in this bit of SW London
Title: Re: Hurricane Bertha ?
Post by: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 10 August 2014, 11:15:34 AM
Rain and wind, since died down...

IanS
Title: Re: Hurricane Bertha ?
Post by: Ithoriel on 10 August 2014, 11:18:25 AM
My newly laid turf is getting well watered in!
Title: Re: Hurricane Bertha ?
Post by: Leman on 10 August 2014, 11:56:48 AM
Lancs coast now has some blue sky.
Title: Re: Hurricane Bertha ?
Post by: Kiwidave on 10 August 2014, 12:31:22 PM
Loads of rain in Cheltenham this morning, with a couple of bolts of lightening. Skies starting to clear now though.
Title: Re: Hurricane Bertha ?
Post by: mollinary on 10 August 2014, 12:44:06 PM
Spectacular amount of rainfall, a bit of thunder, flooded lanes - nothing unusual for a British August!  ;)

Mollinary
Title: Re: Hurricane Bertha ?
Post by: Leman on 10 August 2014, 01:38:10 PM
Gusty, very heavy rain on the Lancs coast now.
Title: Re: Hurricane Bertha ?
Post by: Duke Speedy of Leighton on 10 August 2014, 02:27:10 PM
Trees down and horizontal rain here an hour ago, now it's lovely!
Title: Re: Hurricane Bertha ?
Post by: Leman on 10 August 2014, 02:50:55 PM
Brightening up again. Looks lovely in Surrey at the London Surrey Classic.
Title: Re: Hurricane Bertha ?
Post by: Leman on 10 August 2014, 03:42:26 PM
Arse end of hurricane now hitting us.
Title: Re: Hurricane Bertha ?
Post by: fred. on 10 August 2014, 06:17:55 PM
Very wild now in the NW
Title: Re: Hurricane Bertha ?
Post by: Techno on 10 August 2014, 07:03:50 PM
Odd thing here, in SW Wales, is that it's now getting windier than it's been all day. (Wouldn't call it that strong tho')
I thought it was supposed to have cleared this area completely by now. :-\
Cheers - Phil
Title: Re: Hurricane Bertha ?
Post by: paulr on 10 August 2014, 07:56:20 PM
Is this the other 5% of human conversation we were warned about in another thread  :-\

Or to summarise, not quite varnishing weather  ;D
Title: Re: Hurricane Bertha ?
Post by: Leman on 10 August 2014, 09:11:55 PM
Hopefully soon vanishing.
Title: Re: Hurricane Bertha ?
Post by: Poggle on 10 August 2014, 10:10:06 PM
My stepdaughter was at the Viking re-enactment event at Sutton Hoo in Suffolk. She reports their camp got hit hard by high wind and horizontal rain. 
Title: Re: Hurricane Bertha ?
Post by: Maenoferren on 10 August 2014, 11:35:04 PM
A month worth of rain up on Shetland, a number of landslides and a river running through the middle of my tent.. which was a bugger as We were in it at the time  :(
Title: Re: Hurricane Bertha ?
Post by: Leman on 11 August 2014, 05:19:50 AM
Oh dear.
Title: Re: Hurricane Bertha ?
Post by: Techno on 11 August 2014, 05:59:29 AM
Indeed !
Cheers - Phil
Title: Re: Hurricane Bertha ?
Post by: Hertsblue on 11 August 2014, 07:31:07 AM
Quote from: Maenoferren on 10 August 2014, 11:35:04 PM
A month worth of rain up on Shetland, a number of landslides and a river running through the middle of my tent.. which was a bugger as We were in it at the time  :(


Well, there can't be many tents with running water....  :D
Title: Re: Hurricane Bertha ?
Post by: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 11 August 2014, 07:41:03 AM
Seems like it's passed over - bright and sunny this morning. (Phil the sun is that bright thing in the sky......surrounded by blue and white stuff). [Sky - in Wales the grey stuff what pees on you]

IanS  :D
Title: Re: Hurricane Bertha ?
Post by: toxicpixie on 11 August 2014, 08:36:42 AM
It was spectacularly wet and the bean teepee is now coming down!

Apart from that, bit of a damp squib ;)
Title: Re: Hurricane Bertha ?
Post by: Techno on 11 August 2014, 11:42:58 AM
Quote from: ianrs54 on 11 August 2014, 07:41:03 AM
Seems like it's passed over - bright and sunny this morning. (Phil the sun is that bright thing in the sky......surrounded by blue and white stuff). [Sky - in Wales the grey stuff what pees on you] IanS  :D

;D ;D ;D.....I thought it was a UAP !

Similar day to yesterday here. Odd showers.....But the wind is still gusting around like a windy thing.
Cheers - Phil
Title: Re: Hurricane Bertha ?
Post by: Leman on 11 August 2014, 01:48:38 PM
Now it's mostly blown over the downed leaves are making it look very autumnal.
Title: Re: Hurricane Bertha ?
Post by: Nosher on 11 August 2014, 02:04:55 PM
Drove from Ipswich to Saxmundahm Ambulance station and it wasn't anything particularly specatcular to talk about at 6.30am. Bit squally, sporadic short but violent rain storms.

Ran a blue light transfer from ipswich to Papworth and it was hammering it down between Ipswich and Newmarket with clear blue skys and bright sunshine in Cambridge.

Spent most of the day in Cambridge where there were sporadic downpours. Dricing home via a couple of jobs in Ipswich and Saxmundam it was a glorious evening.

The cloud formations were pretty spectacular and last nights full moon and constellations were crystal clear.

Happy Days :)
Title: Re: Hurricane Bertha ?
Post by: Leman on 11 August 2014, 02:07:06 PM
You don't get a day like that in Tenerife.
Title: Re: Hurricane Bertha ?
Post by: Hertsblue on 12 August 2014, 08:26:12 AM
Oh, I don't know. A couple of years ago in mid-January we drank champagne and ate birthday cake in the snow at the foot of Mount Tiede and then drove down into bright sunshine on the coast.