Some serious gusts are whipping through Surbiton now, just outside of the amber warning. It was bins day, so rubbish is flying around everywhere, empty bins have gone over and there's some crashes and bangs going on outside that I hope have nothing to do with the scaffolding over the road; trees are blowing like mad.
Re: cold prospects and the MAD thread, I will be very happy if we can just get some respite from all the wet weather and replace it with crisp, cold days, some nice frosts, and the possibility of some flakes falling. Top of a Swiss mountain conditions would be fabulous, as would 2009-2010 redux, but for now, no more rain please!
Edit: neighbours are out trying to put bins back together braving an onslaught of yet more flying debris - it's kicking off! And edit again, I went out to retrieve someone else's bin from our drive; returning it, I found another neighbour's bin straddling the road, and while I returned that, a large plank of wood went flying from the skip at the house renovation opposite. It's been a wild half an hour!