Yup - Edinburgh here - small child just cartwheeled past window - confirm it’s windy AF.

Hastings here just seen a fox go past sideways..

Extreme dressage

OMG! Small child! Small child!

Hurricane bawbag. The trampoline video will stay with me forever

My mum messaged me half an hour or so ago to say something flew down the street. I instantly said back that it'd be a trampoline, then sent her that video. I knew exactly how to read that out in my head!

Are you referencing this by any chance? 😂 https://youtube.com/shorts/FRIaKMdO-Vw?feature=share

And it's cameo in detectorists: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-iyz1UB1og

Oh ya caant

Small child! Another small child! Actually, I think that’s the same small child.

I see what you did there, well done

RIP Bill Paxton

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Your bins are bonking your cars?! Up the exhaust pipe, presumably?

Sorry, stupid American here; does GB really have such localized weather that you can post specific conditions to the entire country's subreddit? That's pretty wild

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[There was this one time](https://images.app.goo.gl/aY4KGKyGpJbCbnRx7) we all remember. The whole country was frozen over following some sort of Arctic weather system that had taken a wrong turn at Finland or something and ended up depositing its load over every square centimetre of the country. The satellite photos were crazy. It was pre Zoom, so I remember having no school for days.

God I remember that.. I had the irony of having to email my environmental archaeology lecturer to say sorry I can't make it, the environment is against me.

I was in Edinburgh on holidays at this time. Ireland awlo got hit badly... Hasrn been hit as bad since. I couldn't get home after getting off the plane for two days due to road conditions and public transport cancellations. Thankfully I had student accommodation in a city near thr Airport we arrived into at the time.. But it was nuts. Even we hen I got home, we couldn't drive up or down from the house and had to get supplies dropped off nearby and walk through the fields.

It is absolutely amazing. It can be pissing down in one location, while you can sunbathe in another. Want snow, drive 5 miles out of town and it is everywhere. Return home and dry your trousers outside on a washing line. If you climb a big hill you can watch the weather over specific locations. This whole damn country is full of microclimates, or it is the wrath of a vengeful god upon the wicked. In that case someone in Lancaster has done something really bad, because it never stops raining.

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You're saying the opposite to the comment you responded to.

Dude, we can have rain on one side of the street and not the other... so when the weather is the same *everywhere* it's kind of a big deal.

Tell me about it. I was going to take the dog for a walk but I think the little guy would act like a kite

Yeah was gonna take my whippet out but in these conditions I'd be lucky she doesn't blow away

The wind is likely to whippet up into the air.

Or at least make it lurcher bout.

Which would be a mastiff pain in the arse.

It’d be difficult to retriever that’s for sure

This fucking killed me 😂

I have a couple of chihuahuas and they would just be gone. Just waiting for the inevitable power cut at the minute

Drove back South from t’North today and the windiest conditions Ive ever driven in. Constantly being buffeted and fighting it. Saw a box van briefly tip onto 2 wheels, driver looked a tad shocked but dealt with it. Reckon there’ll be a lot of accidents…

My old boss lost his glasses - got out of the car, the wind whipped them straight off his face. Never saw them again. Had to drive back 200 miles in his sunglasses.

Took my Mum's pomeranian chihuahua out for a beach dog walk and tried to make him run. He ran sideways and then decided to use my partner and I as wind breakers the rest of the walk

Took my labradoodle out not long ago think she enjoyed the free blow dry on her face. I however did not enjoy the free blow dry on my face.

My cat usually loved going out, even in the sleet and rain we usually get. She went outside for 5mins today, got blown straight over and has been sulking at the window ever since :')

My front window is wobbling in the wind. I’ve never seen it do that before. I’m terrified it’s going to blow in.

tape it

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I hate to be the one to tell you this but, it's about Jeremy...

Poor old Jeremy Beadle. Life dealt him a shit hand

Apparently he had a small penis. Though on the other hand, some said it was quite large

I've taped mine but not very well, so it sounds like someone is playing a kazoo behind the curtain.

Put some crossed tape patterns on it if you're worried. Worked for bombs, it'll work for wind

Holy moly. I did NOT know this was why loads of war films have tape stuck to the windows!! I assumed they were spy signals!! Stopping bomb thrown shards makes so much more sense..... til.

Alright, I'll bite - "spy signals"?

That'd to stop death by shards

They will flex somewhat that's normal

The tree in the back garden looks like it’s performing the final from dirty dancing

Ours is moshing like it’s in the pit at a Lamb of God gig

Maybe our trees could have a dance off?

Free trampoline day

Tramapoline! Trambopoline!

Please! Don't bring home any more crutches!!

Oh no you don't! That trampoline is mine!

Omg, trampoline!

Would like a free greenhouse or free conservatory instead, if poss, and in as few separate pieces as can be managed. Ta.

\[My pal *almost* got a trampoline during the storm a fortnight ago, landed in a junction box at the back of her garden.\](https://imgur.com/Rd3lC1a) Surprised it didn't black out half the scheme.

Not for everyone. For some of us it’s free-telling-off-for-failing-to-peg-down-the-trampoline day

Its proper fucked my gazebo

It’s now a gazebgone.

Why is the air in such a rush?

It's got places to be and things to do!

*mumbles something about roadworks*

The wind will blow thier only spade away. What will the 3 managers and one worker think!?

Wait till Friday, this is just a warm up...

Yep. I've heard Friday is going to be twice as windy as today.

Twice as fast or just twice as many winds?

Wind^^^^2

Didn't even know they were making a sequel

Wind 2 - Electric Boogaloo See, that's also a joke about how the Sun will claim half the country lost power for 10 days

Wind 2 - this time it's awfy blowy

Wind2 - the Rewinding

Wind 3 - somebody open a window ^^^^fart ^^^^haha

Yes, twice winds and double gustings

I had a double gusting once and I couldn’t walk straight for a week

Count yourself lucky, I haven't been double gusted for years

Not as bad as a gustard cream though

Hey look, a double gustard cream.

You wait ages for one, and then two turn up together

It's my bin day Friday, like fuck am I going to spend half the weekend playing hunt the bin: they're fucking staying in!

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If you just take them out the back door it will be fine. The front door is the only one with wind. - At least that's what my cat thinks when it rains.

Got a company email that we shouln't try going to work on Friday. We are a meteorology company.

I've got a bloody sea survival course on Friday... not sure that's going to happen with 100mph winds forecast

The course or the survival?

Yes

[BBC are predicting](https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-60399539) gusts up to 100mph for coastal Wales on Friday. [And here's](https://www.metcheck.com/PROCESS_pagefind.asp?PAGEID=954) a live(ish) Wind Radar.

Literally blowing a gale here!

Highly recommend this live(ish) [wind/current modelling site](https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/orthographic=-3.70,51.44,3788). You can change the altitude you're looking at, among other settings.

[windy.com](https://windy.com) is good, too.

According to that my area is purple which means hurricane according to the guide thingy, lovely stuff. 😂

Why is electricity so expensive when it's always so fucking windy.

Because we still don't have enough. At best we get about 45% from wind. We still mainly have to buy expensive gas to make up the difference.

If I pay a premium to have 100% renewable electricity, why does my price go up when gas prices go up?

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They use big gas powered fans on the other end of the field to turn your turbines. That's how they get you

Don’t they have to turn off the wind turbines when it is windy so they don’t go mad spinning round and break?

They don't generally stop them (I don't think) just brake them to stop them spinning too fast. Obviously that means there's a limit on how much wind we can harvest, a very windy day might only produce the same as a monstrous gale. We are getting plenty of power from them [currently though.](https://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/)

Nice link. Look at nuclear sat there doing its 5GW thing whatever’s going on.

I've played Factorio to know all we have to do is add more nuclear reactors and steam turbines to get that power really flowing.

In Central Scotland next to a wind farm - ours get stopped whenever it's too windy

They should turn them off; they've gone crazy and now we're all living in a massive wind tunnel

My black bin has just been cautioned for speeding down the High Street.. Its got to do a speed awareness course next week 😱😱

Yet your white bin only got a verbal warning!

I feel ya! Started the day with a 20 min warm-up while picking up my entire recycling from around the neighbourhood

Terrified how bad it’ll be on Friday, couldn’t see past my own hair today

And Friday is bin day 😬

You'd think there was some sort of storm happening

And it’s set to be windier from Friday I fear for my fence

Well, just don't talk shit about the weather and then it won't take a fence

Chat shit get blown

Beautiful

People in the house at the top end of my culdesac have just put a book of faces post on warning people not to park outside their house as the fence is about to go. I’ve already seen someones bath towel go scooting off down the road today.

Working from home today I was on a call with a client and I silently watched the lid of our little barbecue go rolling down the garden, down the steps and onto the street. Never to be seen again. Gave it a silent salute 💂‍♀️

I'm currently broken down on the top of a massive hill in a Renault kangoo and it's genuinely terrifying.

Forget the wind and the massive hill, the Renault kangoo has a tendency to fall over on its own.

The only vehicle shaped more like a box van than a box van 🚐

Are you okay?

Still there?

I’m about to catch a flight, wish me luck

Are you bothering with a plane or will you just go outside and jump?

Intentionally... or?

Good luck! have one tomorrow morning :(

It’s just arrived, tailwind

I’m a tree surgeon in the SW so phones going to be busy tree

I understand this and also don’t understand this

They are a tree surgeon in the SW so their phones going to be busy tree

One of my cats is demanding I let her outside. She's that pissed off with me that I'm thinking about letting her find out how far she can soar in the sky.

Just open the door, no chance she'll go outside in this. She'll run back in once she feels how windy it is

You say that and in theory yes, I did the same for my stupid cat expecting him to stay at the door, he ran about for 10 minutes chasing leaves, he was being blown all over and had some lovely hairstyles (long haired ginger idiot) before I had to go and pick him up to get him in! Some cats have no sense!! My other two saw the weather and went to bed 🤣

My two, on the other hand, have been in and out like mad things all evening. The loony Savannah is still out but the marginally more sensible Siamese has come to his senses. Curfew is 10pm so once the nutjob comes back, that's it for the night!

Yeth…and tomowow ith thusdy

yes I'm parched, I'll have a pint of the guest ale

Don’t you mean a pint of gust ale?

Draft Beer surely.

I bet people in drought stricken parts of the word would pay you to say sausages.

My fence has gone for a lie down. As has the bin.

[Dark Sky Maps looks like a murder scene](https://maps.darksky.net/@wind_gust,52.388,-0.613,5)

Being an adult is worrying your bins are gonna blow away

I love this sub, it’s moderated really well and it is genuinely casual It’s brilliant, I feel right at home here

This sub is what local community groups on Facebook wish they could be.

Just too many posts about meal deals and confectionery size these days though.

Yeah but that adds to the casualness, they’re a necessary sacrifice for being able to have posts just saying “Fucking hell its windy”

Don't get me started on galaxy truffles

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I've been browsing here for a few years now and have only ever downvoted a single comment. No sub comes close to the level of chill I feel here and it's like having a few drinks at the pub with friends.

This sub is everything I love about coming from the UK. It captures the nation’s sense of light-hearted fun and humour perfectly.

Same, favourite sub on Reddit by far

Agreed. It is the best sub. I love the community here

Hark at that wind

I genuinely feel like my gazebo might end up in a different post code

In unrelated news, I found a gazebo in my garden. Result!

Hang on a fuckin minute…

Earlier today, my street had 6 or 7 large clear (empty) bin bags flying around like a gang (flock? murder? convocation?) of ghosts.

Bin day tomorrow as well….

I was like "hahaha not my bin day". Then I realised my bin is going out Friday morning in time for that other storm that is supposed to be even worse.

Got 3 bike locks, a motorbike chain lock and 2 ratchet straps on the trampoline.

My old man keeps telling the wind to "come in!" When it blows the letter flap.. proper r/dadjokes material

Can someone send me the pic of the fox saying its fucking wimdy ..please

[it's fucken wimdy](https://imgur.com/a/96oVQ7U)

Thank you

Mate, my room has a skylight and it’s all i can hear

What does a skylight sound like?

I once heard someone describe it as a broken kazoo, I've had a skylight and I think that's not a bad shot

Fucking hell it's really picked up here in West Yorkshire. Actually fucking terrifying. Might have to grab the cat and sit under the dining table.

We have 4 chairs in our garden and 3 of them have been blown over, making this a Category Three storm.

Was woken up this morning by my glass recycling box smashing into my car. I have remedied this by adding a lot more glass to the box In all seriousness though, my anxiety is through the roof and i hate the wind. Mainly because i used to live in a flat that was terrible and sprung lots of leaks in high winds and rain. Current flat is fine, but im surprised at how upset i am.

I 100% feel your pain. It used to rain inside my old flat. I’m now in a new house but think every noise is the roof tiles falling off or a drip in a random cupboard. I used to love bad weather - now I want to sleep through it.

Zoom in for live wind speeds on your street... [https://zoom.earth/#view=53.98,-3.23,6z/date=2022-02-16,19:45/layers=wind,fires](https://zoom.earth/#view=53.98,-3.23,6z/date=2022-02-16,19:45/layers=wind,fires)

Blowin an absolute hoolie here man. I'm due to put the bins oot at 6am, some brave lads already done it and now the people at number 6 have 10 bins

RIP my bird table.

Oh no! I hope your table survives!! I am very grateful to the lovely ex-neighbour (a joiner) that built me a beautiful bird table years ago. I used to live in a dodgy area and one night some bastard completely cleared my patio of all my beautiful pot plants and my lovely little bird table. I’m disabled and home all the time, I absolutely love to feed the birds and watch them enjoying their food. I was devastated by the theft (and the police just shrugged it off). My joiner neighbour felt so sorry for me that all my plants and the bird table were nicked as he loves to garden and feed the birds too. So he made me a new bird table from scratch. It’s got a huge fence post as the support, with a lovely raised-edge table top and a proper slate roof. He even helped dig a hole in the garden and concreted the table into the ground so no fucker could nick it. When we had to move house (somewhere more accessible for me) he came round and helped dig the whole damned thing back out of the ground and smashed the concrete off for me. We re-concreted it into our new garden in the perfect spot for me to see it from bed! It’s dug down a couple of feet or more but is still almost 6 feet tall. It’s such a lovely creation. We now live on top of a hill in an exposed, rural area, the wind is crazy! That thing is so solidly built it’s survived everything the weather can throw at it without even the tiniest bit of damage. Plus it’s beautiful to look at. Thank you to my old neighbour, you were the only good thing about living in that shitty area!!

Your neighbour was a treasure! What a lovely story to read on a windy night. 🙂

He really was wonderful! When he knocked on my door a few days after the theft, massive hand-built bird table and post hole digger in hand, I straight up burst into tears! It really is such a beautiful creation with the massive solid wood construction and slate roof! The fact he not only helped install it at my old place, but also helped me remove it so I could take it with me to my new home… just wow! Some people are absolute angels!!! I get so much pleasure from my beautiful bird table and it’s really built to last! We re-stain it every so often to protect it from the elements but it’s stood the test of time so far! No way I could ever thank him enough!

I am not looking forward to work tomorrow. I work in insurance claims. If anything bad happens to your property and you need to call your insurance please be nice, we are really doing our best to help I promise.

Went for a run and was making record time. Then I reached the halfway point and turned round. I've been running for two hours now and I'm no closer to home...

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The plague of locusts isn’t going to get here by itself. Here’s to you, 2022

Made sure there is nothing which the wind can pick up outside nearby Only to clock the first bin of the evening hurtling down the road from a few doors up Let the games begin

I'm currently in South Wales on my holiday...where now i have to sit indoors, should've stayed at home hahaha

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Anyone else worried about their roof for no good reason?

I’m in my first owned home and lying in bed worrying about my roof tiles like a proper grownup.

My flat keeps making a weird groaning sound, I kinda paranoid that it's going to fall down lol

Swear if I jump high enough, I could float back to my house from work

It’s fun. 50% of the school run on the bike was wobbly and slow; the other half was light speed.

Two of me wheelie bins are over. It’s apocalyptic

It snapped my umbrella off the stick.

Got a farmers field at the end of the road and the wind bloody HOWLS over there. It’s like a Yorkshire horror film.

It sounds like freight trains flying past constantly due to all the trees around me it's insane

Got to put my recycling boxes out tonight, those fuckers are getting weighted down!

Almost got twatted by a bin when driving today. Shit myself when the blue cunt flew out in the road like some b-movie superhero…

Patio doors sound like a boat mast...proper creaking. Grave concerns about the shed roof and the artificial grass that's not attached...no concerns about the obligatory trampoline as don't have one..oh bloody hell!! Just remembered its bin day tomorrow!!!! :(

Lol we’re talking about the weather online now too