gratefulj
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I've recently spent a few nights in the Brecon Beacons (I highly recommend). The first spot I had chosen was Gospel Pass which is a few miles from Hay On Wye on the edge of the national park. Unlike my normal MO I had actually gone and checked it out in the daytime (I'm learning from my mistakes) and found it to be on too much of a slant but I'd passed what I would call a viewing platform type car park about half a mile down the road and so decided I would stop there instead. So I went back into town for a mooch about and returned just before dusk. When I pulled up the whole sky was black and I could see the rain falling in cone like shapes on the tops of the mountains all around me and so I knew we'd be in for a stormy night (I don't mind the rain) however I thought it pertinent to check the weather app on my phone. In the main picture I think it said showers but in the small hour by hour forecast all it had right through the night was the swirly wind symbol. I scrolled down a bit further and it said 20 mph winds. Now I'm only in my second month of motorhoming and have no idea what 20 mph winds are but they didn't sound like much so I popped the roof and put the kettle on.
Now my van is 34 years old and I'm pretty sure it wasn't designed in a wind tunnel, it's also noisy at the best of times though I've sort of got used to it and the spot we were on was pretty exposed. I wasn't too worried (tiny bit) about getting blown over the edge, I had the handbrake on tight and I'd left it in gear but the wind really began to hit us hard so much so that at about midnight I took the roof down as it was getting really noisy and the van was really rocking every time a gust hit us. By about 2.30 am I'd had enough. There was no way I was gonna get any sleep and my tiny fear about getting blown off the top had grown so I decided that I would slowly drive back down in to Hay on Wye and park in the main carpark.
So I have a couple of questions that I hope you guys will answer
When is it too windy?
Would you have stayed up there once you'd seen the weather forecast?
Cheers
J
Now my van is 34 years old and I'm pretty sure it wasn't designed in a wind tunnel, it's also noisy at the best of times though I've sort of got used to it and the spot we were on was pretty exposed. I wasn't too worried (tiny bit) about getting blown over the edge, I had the handbrake on tight and I'd left it in gear but the wind really began to hit us hard so much so that at about midnight I took the roof down as it was getting really noisy and the van was really rocking every time a gust hit us. By about 2.30 am I'd had enough. There was no way I was gonna get any sleep and my tiny fear about getting blown off the top had grown so I decided that I would slowly drive back down in to Hay on Wye and park in the main carpark.
So I have a couple of questions that I hope you guys will answer
When is it too windy?
Would you have stayed up there once you'd seen the weather forecast?
Cheers
J