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Good luck for the storm everyone
Dinah
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Hello everyone in Scotland, Ireland and the West of England and Wales. I hope you all get through the storm tomorrow with minimal plant damage.
We are up a mountain on the North coast of Ireland, so have been busy weighting things down and taking down structures that could blow away. I've just finished getting all my best plants indoors or under shelter.
You should still have time to move a few things during the morning before the wind gets fierce, maybe even early afternoon up North, if you haven't had time yet.
Good luck, and lets hope it's a storm in a teacup! 
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Indeed !
Here in Eastern England we'll probably avoid the worst of it , but my condolences and sympathy for those of you (and your beloved plants and gardens) in the areas due to be hit .
Good luck !
Keep safe everyon !
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Keep safe everyone. Having been through the worst of the '87 storm, I'll be thinking of you all.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Don’t think it will be that bad in West Devon either, we’ve had worse winds than 56 mph. It’s looks to be sunny so can’t be bad,?
Projected windspeed for our area (Gloucestershire) is around 45 mph, which although higher than usual isn't excessive. Just hope they're right.
It is 30 years since the 1987 hurricane and luckily I don't think this one will hit the south west so badly - but as Michael Fish so famously said - "it's nothing to concern ourselves with".
We do get gusts of 80 in the winter in normal storms, but it is the long and relentless winds that really rip the garden to shreds and do the worst damage, so we are hoping that the storm will pass over quickly.
We had over 100 mph in about 1997 or 1998, which actually blew the dog off her feet and up into the air as she was being brought home on a lead. Fortunately she wasn't injured (just very surprised). It will be a must to get the dogs and the cats in, and the windows and doors will be tightly shut. We often (several times in a winter) have the power cut off, and the telephones usually go too, but we have back up fuel.
Speaking from experience, the two biggest dangers if you go out are from falling branches and falling tiles. They are not talking rubbish when they say to stay indoors. Sometimes tiles shower down if a part of the roof goes. Roofs are designed so that they will land outside - not indoors. Best keep everyone in and tell them not to do any silly bravado stuff. It's best to do any clearing up after the storm has passed whatever has happened, be it trees on wires or greenhouses or whatever else.
Hope nobody needs this advice after all.
Keep safe everyone.
in Teesside currently it's bizarrely warm (like 18 degrees) we've had a band of rain go thru and now the worlds gone a weird orangey grey glow, and there's not a breath of wind, it really feels strange out there, plus all the birds have gone silent!
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Here in Carmarthenshire we had some rain early this morning.
Now it is dry with thick cloud cover and everywhere has turned yellow-orange in colour.
It's strangely still, with just the occasional sharp gust and there are few birds singing, just the crows calling as they fly and a couple of sparrows chattering.
The air has a strange smell to it too, sort of smoky - I guess the chimney smoke and traffic fumes are holding in the hot, humid atmosphere.
The moon was blood-red in colour and high in the sky this morning at 9:30am.
It's really peculiar, kind of like how it was during the solar eclipse, but a lot stuffier!
Definately seems like the proverbial 'calm-before-the-storm'.
I heard that in Aberystwyth, they recorded temperatures of 22 C at about a quarter to 9 this morning.
It doesn't normally get that warm in the summer until late morning!
I hope everyone stays safe and doesn't suffer much damage.
All the best to Dinah.