Are You Ready For Darren?

[DTCwordfan]

Already nasty out there, rain and wind gusts up to 60  mph .....tomorrow lunchtime being forecast to be the worst down here.

Take care of yourselves if you are lifting up the west side of Britain and esp. in Wales and the Severn Estuary/Bristol Channel.

[Canary42]

Wind increasing over last couple of hours but we're a bit off the main path I believe (Hampshire), so hoping for the best.

Good luck to those in direct path, batten down the hatches.

[elliemay1]

Darragh?

[DTCwordfan]

Is that the name, the Irish got in first on the naming-rights then....

[maggiebee]

No strong winds on the east coast of Scotland.........yet.  Started raining about a couple of hours ago.  We do have an amber warning so will keep an eye on things.  All of you down south batten down the hatches and take care.

[Togo]

We have just had the alarm calls on both mobiles. Not much we can do. Torches have batteries, mob.phones charged up, laptops both charged up. If the power goes out we can get the web on mobile signal. We are just wondering whether to get something hot into the flasks. 

[nailedit]

However did we manage with weather before technology?

[Buenchico]

>>> the Irish got in first on the naming-rights then....

Perhaps surprisingly, they didn't.

Met Éireann named the first two storms of the current season (Ashley & Bert), KNMI (the Dutch weather service) named Connall and our own Met Office named Darragh.

[Buenchico]

Brush up on your pronunciations for some of the next storms to come!
https://www.nationalworld.com/news/weather/how-pronounce-new-met-office-storm-names-4760256

[barney4444]

Just had goverment storm warning on phone. ' don't even go out of your house in the morning'  gulp!!

[pastafreak]

It was so nice and quiet an jour or 2 ago. But it's roaring and lashing down now. 70+ mph due by afternoon tomorrow. I'm dreading it.

Stay safe, dry and warm everyone. 

[Togo]

We went and leaned against the bottle kilns Nails. Nice and warm and sheltered. Half a dozen oatcakes under your vest and you could live in a blizzard for a week. 

[DTCwordfan]

and two in your undershorts, Togo?

[Togo]

We didn't have skiddies DT. Had underclouts made from old coal sacks. Sometimes they were washed before we wore them as well. 

[douglas9401]

The origin of nutty slack?

[Togo]

Of course Douglas  ...  and decoking your piston. 

[Togo]

As ever of course the girls had it easy. Their " delicates" were made from the cheese wheel wrappings and the onion bags. When they joined us in a huddle around the bottle kiln we smelled like a giant round of cheese on toast. I miss those days. 

[webbo3]

I live in Bristol, its a bit blowy at the moment and raining but nothing bad

[Patsy33]

No! Apparently we will be hit here in S. Gloucestershire. Hopefully, the worst of it will be gone by the afternoon.

[Cloverjo]

I live on the the Bristol Channel. The wind is starting to pick up just now.

[barney4444]

In South wales, alls calm sarge..