The United Kingdom’s Met Office is just down the road from here in Exeter, and they have just announced that the newly named “Storm Imogen” is heading our way:
#StormImogen has just been named by our partners @MetEireann and will move across the UK during the course of Mondayhttps://t.co/NpvlcdfDxp
— Met Office (@metoffice) February 6, 2016
Imogen follows in the footsteps of her brother Henry further north and the unnamed storm that has just deposited 57.8 mm of rain on Okehampton in 24 hours:
Saturday was a wet and windy day for many parts of the UK, but especially so across the southwest of England pic.twitter.com/2Y2NmzUHwM
— Met Office (@metoffice) February 6, 2016
whilst Exeter Airport endured gusts of wind up to 50 mph and a mere 21.0 mm of rainfall:
We have previously speculated about the effects of such storms on Western Power Distribution’s network in the South-West Peninsula, so here is how things look qualitatively at the moment, following today’s flooding:
and here’s the associated quantities
Here’s how Haldon Hill has been preconditioned for Imogen’s imminent arrival:
and here is the Met Office’s forecast [updated Sunday AM] for our back yard on Monday:
An amber severe weather warning for #wind has been issued: https://t.co/TmvTfmDfrK. Stay #weatheraware @metofficeuk pic.twitter.com/wFHBwigwVf
— Met Office (@metoffice) February 7, 2016
Do you suppose there will be another power cut here tomorrow?