3rd January 2012 UK Storm batters Trachycarpus Palm

3rd January 2012 . Deep Atlantic depression crosses Scotland bringing Storm Force Winds to most of the UK. Trachycarpus fortunei palm at Hardy Tropicals battered by high winds reaching 65.8mph (105.2kph) This is how my weatherstation saw it http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/WXDailyHistory.asp?ID=IKENTGRA2&am...

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[jpbackintown]

65mph would do little if any damage at all...But what I liked about this storm is that the wind wouldn't stop blowing, no breaks what so ever. I guess 65mph could do damage in this storm since the wind wouldn't break. 91mph where I was, I witnessed two roofs flying off in Glasgow and debris flying about like you'd see in an American movie. Crazy shit!

[HTUKDave]

@jpbackintown The palms don't suffer much damage but it did knock about 70% of the seed off the palm so not many left to ripen this year.

[CristinaNoanea]

Did you have hail during the storm?

[HTUKDave]

@CristinaNoanea no hail that I saw, although it was blowing horizontally. Mostly wind and about 12mm rain as the front came through. Temps dropped from 11.8C to 7.9C in 20 minutes.

[namirdu13]

wow impressive! :o

[HTUKDave]

@namirdu13 I shot the video from under the front porch, and at times the noise was frightening. The whole palm trunk trunk was bending :-o The big Eucalyptus (Blue Gum) in the background had one 15ft branch ripped off in the morning. and another is broken and flapping about wildly at the end of the video. .

[StormChasing31region]

Крепкий ветер!

[jpbackintown]

@brahmin21 As you'll notice, Scotland gets these kind of storms regularly (not as often as this winter as Scotland has already had about 6 similar storms in 1 month) with Scandinavia getting what's left of the storms.

[brahmin21]

these storms keep rolling in off of the atlantic and head over to norway finland sweden etc......

and they are also getting quakes landslides and fish die offs.........the two things are related...

the earths electro magnetic field in in major flux....and it is also for this reason that NASA have sent up to gravity satellites to map fluctuations within the moons core and on its surface......and to triangulate this data with the bizzare readings they are getting from our planets core and surface

[CristinaNoanea]

It was bad without hail anyway :(......I am interested in regions affected by hail in uk it is Scotland one of them?

[HTUKDave]

@ThaThree They are a bit battered and the leaflets get broken, which in a small palm would make it look a mess, but with big palms you view them from further away, so it is the overall form that stands out. ;) This one, 'Trudi Trachy' is around 20ft (6m) tall now.