Weather type:
Heavy rain with severe gales for a time
Alert risk period:
18/01/08 06:00 until 20/01/08 23:59
Alert details:
This alert follows the Weather Watch that was issued by Net-weather at 18:34 yesterday and consists of two parts.
A deepening Atlantic low is still expected to track close to northwestern Scotland during Friday, clearing away into the northern North Sea by early Saturday. This will bring gales or severe gales across Northern Ireland and Scotland during Friday, with gusts of up to 75mph possible for a time over exposed hills and coasts, especially in the northwest. During Friday night, winds may strengthen further over northern and northeastern Scotland with severe gale or storm force west or northwesterly winds gusting to 85mph for a time. This will bring the risk of distruption from falling trees or branches and structural damage.
Also associated with this system will be further spells of heavy rain moving eastwards across the UK, followed by showers. Rainfall amounts on Friday are not expected to reach alert levels, but need to be monitored carefully with the current flooding situation.
The second part of this alert relates to the cold front associated with Friday's low. The front is expected to become very slow moving over Wales and central/southern England over the weekend. Therefore, further spells of rain, heavy at times, is expected over Wales, the Midlands, East Anglia and parts of central and southern England for much of Saturday and into Sunday. The heaviest and most persistent rain looks like falling over Wales, where rainfall totals of up to 50mm may fall. This could lead to further flooding problems over the weekend, along with hazardous travelling conditions.
If you are worried about flooding in your areas, please use the Environment Agency website for England and Wales or the SEPA website for Scotland for the latest.
This alert may be updated if necessary over the coming days, so please stay with Net-weather for the latest information.
Confidence: 80%
Issued by Paul Barber for Netweather.tv
WEATHER WARNING
Sorry, Savvy and Sean - I now realise how silly of me it was to try to prevent such useful information being passed on to readers.
In the spirit of passing on other useful information could I warn all people in the SE26 area of another pending problem. If people look out of the window shortly they will see that the sky slowly begins to darken, and that by 4.40pm at the latest it will get so dark that you may have to switch on lights inside your home and use headlights when driving a car.
Residents should be warned that this period of "darkness" (or "night" as many experts are now calling it) may last for up to fourteen hours when the sky will slowly lighten again and full light ("daytime" as many call it) will resume.
Scientists are investigating this strange phenomenon. Strangely whilst we in Sydenham SE26 are in "light", residents of "Sydenham" in Sydney, Australia are in "dark" and vice versa.
Residents should not panic, nor should they attempt during the middle hours of "darkness" to shop on Sydenham Road since they will find that most businesses will be closed.
Hope this information proves useful to all locals. Don't say you haven't been warned!!
In the spirit of passing on other useful information could I warn all people in the SE26 area of another pending problem. If people look out of the window shortly they will see that the sky slowly begins to darken, and that by 4.40pm at the latest it will get so dark that you may have to switch on lights inside your home and use headlights when driving a car.
Residents should be warned that this period of "darkness" (or "night" as many experts are now calling it) may last for up to fourteen hours when the sky will slowly lighten again and full light ("daytime" as many call it) will resume.
Scientists are investigating this strange phenomenon. Strangely whilst we in Sydenham SE26 are in "light", residents of "Sydenham" in Sydney, Australia are in "dark" and vice versa.
Residents should not panic, nor should they attempt during the middle hours of "darkness" to shop on Sydenham Road since they will find that most businesses will be closed.
Hope this information proves useful to all locals. Don't say you haven't been warned!!
Maybe the Sydenham Society should start looking in to this!nasaroc wrote:Sorry, Savvy and Sean - I now realise how silly of me it was to try to prevent such useful information being passed on to readers.
In the spirit of passing on other useful information could I warn all people in the SE26 area of another pending problem. If people look out of the window shortly they will see that the sky slowly begins to darken, and that by 4.40pm at the latest it will get so dark that you may have to switch on lights inside your home and use headlights when driving a car.
Residents should be warned that this period of "darkness" (or "night" as many experts are now calling it) may last for up to fourteen hours when the sky will slowly lighten again and full light ("daytime" as many call it) will resume.
Scientists are investigating this strange phenomenon. Strangely whilst we in Sydenham SE26 are in "light", residents of "Sydenham" in Sydney, Australia are in "dark" and vice versa.
Residents should not panic, nor should they attempt during the middle hours of "darkness" to shop on Sydenham Road since they will find that most businesses will be closed.
Hope this information proves useful to all locals. Don't say you haven't been warned!!
it's outrageous that people allow it to get dark at 4:30pm.
speaking of which, i went for a walk last night (it was really warm!) and was very impressed with the old lamp posts about sydenham.
less impressed with the monstrosity acorn are building on sydenham hill opposite a really nice old white building. not far from the dulwich woodhouse pub or whatever it's called.
speaking of which, i went for a walk last night (it was really warm!) and was very impressed with the old lamp posts about sydenham.
less impressed with the monstrosity acorn are building on sydenham hill opposite a really nice old white building. not far from the dulwich woodhouse pub or whatever it's called.
I can assure you that the Sydenham Society will concentrate on little else. Petitions will shortly appear in local shops on Sydenham Road demanding a return to permanent "light" throughout SE26. I'd urge all residents to sign the petition immediately.
Surprisingly, we've already received support from a number of unusual sources, some of them from overseas. A letter from a group of people describing themselves as "inuit" says that they support our
campaign but curiously only want permanent "light" during the winter. Still, support from any source is welcome I suppose.
We have also written to congratulate both the Daily Mail and The Sun newspapers who are both today offering free lightbulbs to combat "the dark".
The key factor is to explain why this unusual phenomenon is occurring. Steve Grindlay has contacted me to explain that he believes that this change from "light" to "dark" has been happening for some time, maybe even millions of years. Steve - we love you mate but stick to producing those nice Victorian photos of SE26, OK. Another person from Lawrie Park Gardens, has PM'd me suggesting that it may have something to do with the rotation of the earth. Yes, and the moon is made out of green cheese! Surely someone can come up with something better than this.
Surprisingly, we've already received support from a number of unusual sources, some of them from overseas. A letter from a group of people describing themselves as "inuit" says that they support our
campaign but curiously only want permanent "light" during the winter. Still, support from any source is welcome I suppose.
We have also written to congratulate both the Daily Mail and The Sun newspapers who are both today offering free lightbulbs to combat "the dark".
The key factor is to explain why this unusual phenomenon is occurring. Steve Grindlay has contacted me to explain that he believes that this change from "light" to "dark" has been happening for some time, maybe even millions of years. Steve - we love you mate but stick to producing those nice Victorian photos of SE26, OK. Another person from Lawrie Park Gardens, has PM'd me suggesting that it may have something to do with the rotation of the earth. Yes, and the moon is made out of green cheese! Surely someone can come up with something better than this.
Only just seen this.
Well, the original poster might not have been that far off. I tried to rush down Sydenham Road on foot just before the shops would shut last night, against a pretty hefty headwind (I'm a slight person and had to stagger to make progress).
The weird thing is that I walked back up the hill against a headwind. Eh? Mentioned this when I got home as being "confused". Perhaps the weather report explains it. Me happy, as I'll swear I wasn't walking backwards at the time.
Edit: Actually, that still doesn't make sense unless tournados have turned into zigzag airflows. Still, the nice shop (one of the pound shops) had exactly what I wanted so happy but still confused. Oh well.
Well, the original poster might not have been that far off. I tried to rush down Sydenham Road on foot just before the shops would shut last night, against a pretty hefty headwind (I'm a slight person and had to stagger to make progress).
The weird thing is that I walked back up the hill against a headwind. Eh? Mentioned this when I got home as being "confused". Perhaps the weather report explains it. Me happy, as I'll swear I wasn't walking backwards at the time.
Edit: Actually, that still doesn't make sense unless tournados have turned into zigzag airflows. Still, the nice shop (one of the pound shops) had exactly what I wanted so happy but still confused. Oh well.
nasaroc, instead of all this campaigning for the rebuilding of the crystal palace, why don't we concentrate on a massive mirror up on the hill to reflect the light shed by london down into sydenham.
this would not only combat the dark problem, but we might get a grant from the government for the environmental goodness of it, which we could spend on putting some chain stores into the high street.
this would not only combat the dark problem, but we might get a grant from the government for the environmental goodness of it, which we could spend on putting some chain stores into the high street.
mosy...it wasn't you who poppy saw wandering about at 7am sucking on a can of extra strength, was it?mosy wrote: Edit: Actually, that still doesn't make sense unless tournados have turned into zigzag airflows. Still, the nice shop (one of the pound shops) had exactly what I wanted so happy but still confused. Oh well.
Hi sean - my post wasn't sarcasm - it was a headwind both ways - honest. Maybe tournado style winds blow down rather than across? Glad damage in your area was limited to a garden shed.
Hi lambchops. Nah, the chances of me having the physical strength to get a ring pull off a can of beer at that time (or any time actually) is somewhat unlikely. You must have seen me driving along at 7am looking longingly at a can that I know will always sit there taunting me... LOL
Hi lambchops. Nah, the chances of me having the physical strength to get a ring pull off a can of beer at that time (or any time actually) is somewhat unlikely. You must have seen me driving along at 7am looking longingly at a can that I know will always sit there taunting me... LOL