h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

We don't often get wind over here. We're protected by Telford on one side and the Welsh hills on the other.

No protection today. Wowee!

Wind is my favourite weather.

So ... energetic. I get enthused.

I think I'd like to be re-incarnated as a kite.

Oh it's defeinitely energetic! The clouds are racing through the sky, the trees are bowing, leaves are scattering in flurries, and the apples on my tree are all falling off!

It's really windy here too - the trees are incredibly noisy, I'm glad the bigger ones are a long way from the house.

I actually prefer thunder storms to very high winds, which I do find unnerving. Watching the force of storm winds makes you realise how powerless you can be in the face of nature.

Yep! It's like living in two places at once here; blue skies at the front of the house and a deep yellowy black at the back.

I'm one junction of the M1 south of Clive and can confirm that it is pretty wild.

Vip - I have also got the problem of falling apples, am making apple charlotte later.

The oak out back is getting a damn good thrashing.

I'm a bit of a weather nerd (I never used to turn off the radio at night before the end of the shipping forecast) so I've been following this over the past few days - it's the post-tropical remains of Hurricane Katia. Normally the UK doesn't get storms like this until most of the leaves are off the trees, around late October and into November, so it'll be interesting to see what happens now, with the trees still in full leaf. If I remember rightly, that's why the 1987 'hurricane' was so damaging.

Learned a few things here http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/23degrees/2011/09/whats_in_a_name.html yesterday that I didn't know before.