It's not Quite all Storms...

[curiouswombat]

I took this picture up near Mum's, in the north of the island, yesterday, about 4pm.

It was the first fairly still evening for about a week.



Today we have only 30mph winds, gusting to 50, and the sea has stayed on the right side of the sea walls. Joy of joys, for tomorrow The Isle of Man Met Office has issued a red warning with more flooding predicted around mid afternoon because of another high tide (2.56pm), a significant storm surge and severe gale force winds with gusts of up to 65 miles per hour.

What fun...

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[thismaz.livejournal.com]

That's a really lovely picture.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Thank you - the sky caught my eye as I popped over to the village shop for Mum.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Beautiful

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

[(Anonymous)]

Dig out the Wellies and bring on the sand bags!

Stay dry.

Still a miserable 53 here with blue skies and fluffy clouds, I think we are supposed to get some rain later this week!

Huggs,
Lynda

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Fortunately we live well above the sea! But I do have a good pair of waterproof boots at the ready.

53 sounds quite warm to me - we are lucky to see 50 much at all between the end of October and the beginning of April.

[julia-here.livejournal.com]

Oh, good grief. At least our long run of storms was in June, and then August and September (and left July fine for Anna's wedding); it interfered with building the chicken pens I needed to finish and knocked down bits of the old peach tree with frightening regularity but you, well, you might as well be living in the freaking Aleutians or Haida Gwai for the weather you've been having: the Irish Sea is not meant to emulate the North Pacific!

Julia, we've been having eight to ten degrees of frost overnight and fog, so the biggest threat to our health and happiness is drivers loosing their grip on road ice and taking out power poles: so far, so good?

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

the Irish Sea is not meant to emulate the North Pacific!

It seems to have got ideas above its station at present...

But we haven't had any icy roads - and any within about a mile of the coast are naturally salted as there is so much salt in the air - so that's a blessing, I guess!

[petzipellepingo.livejournal.com]

A very peaceful photo.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Thank you - I think a few moments of peace are just what we need weatherwise, at the moment - you too, I think.

[petzipellepingo.livejournal.com]

Yes, although we won't be getting like peace until at least the end of the week.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

We are expected to get down below 20mph winds by Saturday - we won't know ourselves!

[lindi.livejournal.com]

Beautiful photo
x

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

[chaotic-binky.livejournal.com]

I hope you all remain safe.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

It's very blustery out there again, now. D-d's just dropped in on her way home - she's been up to my Mum's, and she says the road from Mum's village into the nearest town is quite badly flooded now.

[beanbeans.livejournal.com]

That's a very pretty photo.

I hope things don't get worse where your Mum lives. That's quite an ominous flood warning. :(

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Thank you. D-d says the road between Mum's village and the nearest town was flooding this afternoon when she was up visiting. It's raining again now - but hopefully it won't get into her house.

[ellynn-ithilwen.livejournal.com]

Beautiful photo - and good luck tomorrow!

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

It's getting so that high winds are the norm - calm days seem quite odd!

[the-winterwitch.livejournal.com]

What a beautiful picture! It would be nicer to know it's not exactly a "quiet before the storm" pic, though; I hope it's not going too bad for your island and you all! *hugs*

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Thank you. It is wet and windy outdoors again this evening - calm days are becoming a rarity!

[mrowe.livejournal.com]

Very nice shot - hope the next storm behaves itself

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

As long as the sea stays more or less where it ought to be I think we'll settle for it...

[cbtreks.livejournal.com]

That's very pretty. I love how you captured the ground and trees in silhouette against the sky.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Thank you. The sky caught my eye as I drove along the road and I'm glad I stopped to get the camera out.

[azalaisdep.livejournal.com]

Fingers crossed for less storm damage and flooding than is predicted - that's quite a forecast!

We have a flood warning for the area where our new house is (erk!) We have been checking regularly over the weekend and are reasonably sanguine, because the current prediction is that the rivers here are not predicted to reach their 2007 levels (the Big Flood) and our new street didn't flood then; all the local allotments, parks etc are lakes but that of course is what they are for at times like these; and everyone who lives in the street is fairly confident that all will be well and no-one is sandbagging. Still, it's a test of nerves and I keep refreshing the Environment Agency flood warning page even though I have them set up to text me any changes!

(Of course, there is the argument that if the new house did have to flood, much better to do it now before we've had any building work done or any furnishings in, but I'd much rather it doesn't flood at all...:)

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

The forecast is getting a bit boring - we just look at it and 'yeah... same old same old...'!

I do hope they are being over-zealous about your new home. it sounds like it - if everyone else thinks it will be fine it probably will be. When D-d moved into the shared house in York the river was at the end of the street and so 'is it likely to flood?' was a relevant question - all the people who told them 'no' were absolutely right. I hope it's the same for you.

[azalaisdep.livejournal.com]

Thanks - rationally it looks as though we'll be fine (we wouldn't have bought the house if we hadn't been reasonably confident that it wasn't at serious flood risk - and several streets closer to streams in 2 directions would have to be underwater before we are...) The current prediction is that "properties closest to the rivers will flood", which is definitely not us by a long chalk.

But the Environment Agency warnings are pretty general - not street-specific - and of course they probably feel they have to cover themselves by being extra careful: so you get an alert saying "Flood Warning: Take Action Now!" which of course is a bit unnerving.

I think I will persuade the RG to invest in a set of proper flood boards and air brick covers for the future - just because they would be a lot easier to put up in a hurry than faffing about with filling sandbags...

[azalaisdep.livejournal.com]

BTW (and completely OT); the Small People and I were watching James May's Toy Stories programme earlier - the episode where they build a Meccano motorbike and drive it round the TT course on the IoM, I don't know if you've seen it?

Anyway, near the end of the programme when they are finally coasting towards the grandstand and the finish line, I could almost swear I caught a glimpse of you and a redhead who I thought might have been D-d, waving madly as they passed! Is that remotely possible?

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Yes I watched it when it was on the other day - it was a gloriously silly project, wasn't it? But no, we weren't there at the end - although I was actually about 50 yards away when he finished, at church helping with the teas.

[azalaisdep.livejournal.com]

Oh well, it was only the briefest glimpse. It was both silly and quite inspiring I thought - the depth of engineering ingenuity that went into powering it, in particular, was amazing. First Small Person was quite impressed - had it been before Christmas rather than after, perhaps Meccano might have made it on to his wish list!

[slaymesoftly.livejournal.com]

Oh dear. Enjoy your (relatively) quiet day!

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

It's wet and windy out there again - but I've reached the point where I hardly notice now. Well, as long as I'm indoors, anyway.

[sparrow2000.livejournal.com]

That's a really great picture.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Thank you. It was a rather beautiful sky.

[nutmeg3.livejournal.com]

Very pretty. You get real extremes there, don't you?

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Thank you - we do. In theory being surrounded by water should even the weather out a bit - but whilst it does mean less extreme temperatures, when it comes to changes of light, and the difference between calm and storm, we have a big swing!

[sulien.livejournal.com]

That is a truly lovely picture! The weather has been fair here, without even much wind lately, so I can't complain at all.

As for that weather forecast, Holy Crap! I complain about the severe storms we get up here on the Washington coast, but I think you folks on the Isle of Man have us beat. We tend to get the severe blows like that only about once or twice a Winter and the really bad ones once every few years, but you guys are just getting hammered on a regular basis. I hope you all weather this next one well and that things simmer down for a good long while afterward.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Thank you. We usually get this sort of weather half a dozen times or so each winter and the flooding only some years when, as now, the tide and storm combine. But this year it has been almost none stop since the end of November and we are getting almost used to it :(

[bojojoti.livejournal.com]

Winds can get so tiring when they go on and on. However, there is little chance for smog and pollution to remain (not that we have to worry about that in a rural community).

We're in the midst of a cold snap. It's -19°C and going to get colder. I'm so glad I pooh-poohed the USDA's redistricting of growing zones a few years ago and didn't buy plants for the warmer designation. (http://planthardiness.ars.usda.gov/phzmweb/interactivemap.aspx) People who trusted that are going to lose lots of landscaping plants.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Meep! -19C makes me want to curl up under a duvet just thinking about it!

Definitely you need cold-hardy plants for that.

[zanthinegirl.livejournal.com]

Wow, gorgeous!

And yikes! That's a lot of wind!

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Thank you. The wind is dying down a bit now - the boat might even sail tomorrow, which would be good. The last one in was on Saturday afternoon.