It's Rough up North

[Doon frae Troon]

40 foot waves threatened for the west coast of Scotland this afternoon.
Might cause a bit if damage to a few links courses.

I hit a wall of rain on the A77 driving home from Glasgow last night, brought traffic to a standstill, pretty scary 10 minutes

 

[ger147]

I've played in worse...

 

[Doon frae Troon]

I've played in worse...

:lol:

Not in what has just passed over here........sheet lightning and hailstones that covered everything white in 5 minutes.

 

[JustOne]

Beautiful day here (Gatwick), was expecting 50mph winds and it's been absolutely dead calm & sunny all day.

 

[chellie]

We've not had lightening jet but the wind, rain and hailstones have been awful here today as well. Hoping it's better tomorrow as it's Ladies Day so we have a competition on.

 

[patricks148]

BBC weather was telling me this morning we had 80 MPH winds. lucky if its been 15 at most, raining quite heavily most of the day with the odd sunny period. Kirkwall flight was delayed due to high winds and my meeting was delayed as the two people flying from Manchester were held up by a head wind.

Heard the Sky bridge was closed to all traffic this morning and all the ferries were cancelled.

 

[SocketRocket]

Oh! read the title and didn't know the thread was about weather.

 

[Doon frae Troon]

Huge waves off Orkney, clearing the 500 foot high cliffs.
Lifeboat working in 30 metre waves.....brave folk.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Seen the weather on the news. Hope all the Scottish forum contingent and their loved ones are all unscathed (and in light and warmth)

 

[Deleted member 15344]

Playing golf in the high winds down Falklands used to be great fun - you could actually get a ball to go that high it blew back over your head - also could hit 7 irons forum yardages

Winds weren't fun when up the tower in Benbecula or up the radar tower

 

[chellie]

Our competition tomorrow has been cancelled due to the worsening weather since 3.00pm today.

 

[Sponge1980]

Here is a picture from today, not taken by me by the way.

 

[williamalex1]

Seen the weather on the news. Hope all the Scottish forum contingent and their loved ones are all unscathed (and in light and warmth)

Thanks for caring :thup:

 

[CliveW]

So windy the fairway mats were blowing away.

 

[chrisd]

So windy the fairway mats were blowing away.

Well let's just hope that they don't blow down to here in Kent!

 

[Doon frae Troon]

Here is a picture from today, not taken by me by the way.

Great picture Sponge, The NE Ness ? if so I stood on the hill with the cairn last May.
500 feet cliffs I think, gives you some idea of scale.

 

[patricks148]

they had those pictures on the news last night, you wouldn't have wanted to be standing on them yesterday

 

[Sponge1980]

Great picture Sponge, The NE Ness ? if so I stood on the hill with the cairn last May.
500 feet cliffs I think, gives you some idea of scale.

I think that photo was taken near a place called Yesnaby, which is around the west coast.

 

[Sponge1980]

Huge waves off Orkney, clearing the 500 foot high cliffs.
Lifeboat working in 30 metre waves.....brave folk.

Here is a video shot by one of the lifeboat crewmen, there is one of an interview with 2nd engineer done by the local radio station but I can't find a link to it. He says it was the worst he'd been out in but the one good thing was the had the swell, tide and wind going with them. He said it would have been a lot worse had they been punching into it. Brave lads.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBTLnyHQHeQ

 

[richart]

Well let's just hope that they don't blow down to here in Kent!

Not as if you would have needed them at Littlestone, unless they introduce a deep rough mat..