[Sussex] A bit brisk tomorrow... *** Met Office RED weather warning ***

[dazzer6666]

A few in Worthing are still open I think - or were this morning.

Think the decision was only made a short while ago

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[lawros left foot]

Just landed at Gatwick. Very very bumpy on the final approach. Flight took an extra 20 minutes due to a head wind and the fact the plane was heavy due to taking on extra fuel but otherwise all good.

Reason for extra fuel was because the pilot didn’t want to refuel in Gatwick….not sure why this was.

Have you seen the price of petrol here?

 

[Notters]

Its half term week in East Sussex and B&H. All the schools were closed anyway. West Sussex's would have been open as their half term is next week.

Ahhhh, of course, thank you. Ours is next week.

 

[BNthree]

Worth having a look at the Palace Pier webcam come noon:

https://www.skylinewebcams.com/en/webcam/united-kingdom/england/brighton/brighton-pier.html

 

[Bry Nylon]

Just landed at Gatwick. Very very bumpy on the final approach. Flight took an extra 20 minutes due to a head wind and the fact the plane was heavy due to taking on extra fuel but otherwise all good.

Reason for extra fuel was because the pilot didn’t want to refuel in Gatwick….not sure why this was.

If he's anything like me, he's probably completely pissed off with going to pay and ending up in never-ending queue for the cashier behind loads of people who use their local petrol station to do a weekly grocery shop FFS.

 

[lawros left foot]

Bins emptied today in West Sussex

Now suspended in Worthing.

 

[southstandandy]

Just spotted at least 5 surfers off Hove seafront this morning already. Pretty choppy out there. Hope they don't need the RNLI.

 

[Notters]

Worth having a look at the Palace Pier webcam come noon:

https://www.skylinewebcams.com/en/webcam/united-kingdom/england/brighton/brighton-pier.html

High tide at 12.14 too

 

[goldstone]

Sun's just come out here in mid Sussex. Another load of panic about nothing. Although I expect a government announcement shortly telling us we cannot leave our homes except for 30 minutes exercise a day, we cannot meet anyone anywhere, and we must all have an anti-storm vaccine.

 

[BNthree]

Sun's just come out here in mid Sussex. Another load of panic about nothing. Although I expect a government announcement shortly telling us we cannot leave our homes except for 30 minutes exercise a day, we cannot meet anyone anywhere, and we must all have an anti-storm vaccine.

You do realise the storm hasn't reached mid Sussex yet?

 

[WATFORD zero]

Good news - 'Green' bin (actually Brown) got emptied this morning
Bad News - had to go and get 'Green' bin from up the road as it was empty and got blown away

 

[severnside gull]

Storm a couple of hours later than forecast reaching us on the Bristol Channel so missed the high tide which greatly reduces the risk of flooding……… ….just roof tiles to worry about now

 

[martin tyler]

Sun's just come out here in mid Sussex. Another load of panic about nothing. Although I expect a government announcement shortly telling us we cannot leave our homes except for 30 minutes exercise a day, we cannot meet anyone anywhere, and we must all have an anti-storm vaccine.

It can be windy in the sun as well

 

[Cheshire Cat]

https://www.skylinewebcams.com/en/webcam/united-kingdom/england/brighton/brighton-pier.html

https://www.bognorregisbeach.co.uk/live

 

[LamieRobertson]

Think the decision was only made a short while ago

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Daughter got an email at 7 this morning re my grandsons school in Storrington

 

[Icy Gull]

Just spotted at least 5 surfers off Hove seafront this morning already. Pretty choppy out there. Hope they don't need the RNLI.

Selfish ******** but I thought I was immortal when I was in my late teens and early 20’s and went dinghy sailing in extreme wind a number of times. Had to be rescued once as the tiller snapped in half and I capsized and went for a cold swim . #hypocrite

 

[Bozza]

Think the decision was only made a short while ago

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Durrington High issued a "we're open" yesterday afternoon but when the Met Office upgraded us to red, they sent an email at 7:08 this morning saying they were closed.

Just been out for a 10-mile run. It's no worse than many windy days, currently. My legs are feeling a bit battered as today was my 8th day of 10+ miles, so they couldn't really keep up with how fast the wind wanted to blow me along the seafront!

 

[Fignon's Ponytail]

Worth having a look at the Palace Pier webcam come noon:

https://www.skylinewebcams.com/en/webcam/united-kingdom/england/brighton/brighton-pier.html

Idiots struggling to walk out there along the seafront...what is wrong with people?!

 

[Brok]

I'm a bit worried about the caravan outside...

It wasn't there 10 minutes ago.

 

[Bozza]

Just spotted at least 5 surfers off Hove seafront this morning already. Pretty choppy out there. Hope they don't need the RNLI.

Having run along the Worthing seafront both yesterday and today, the waves were bigger yesterday than today's, although I appreciate the bigger stuff is still to come.