I don't know if the tsunami had any effect on global weather, I'm sure it must have had some effect but nobody has talked about it. Anyway, we're getting some bad weather here - gale force winds and stuff. It's nearly midnight and my wife and I have just been outside to take down a garden swing seat thing (adults one, not a kiddies one) and secure the various things in the garden and the garden gate. The wind is that strong it has been bending the top of the gate (the frame of it is made of half fence posts) and banging it against the concrete fence post. The bottom is already secured with a concrete slab and now I've had to prop the top up with a spare fence post that was lying around the garden. We had to dismantle the swing seat thing because the wind took the cover off it earlier today and despite me tying it back down, it has taken it off again, snapping the string. There is an old tumble drier waiting to go to the tip and I've had to move that because it was lifting the corner and banging it on the patio. Those things have a bloody concrete block inside them to stop them from moving when it's spinning. It also blew the big rabbit hutch over - the animals died last winter so there was nothing in there to get hurt. I've also had to move the barbeque to a corner because it keeps blowing it over. The wind is howling round the houses, it's started raining and I saw some bright white flashes up in the clouds which I think might have been lightning.
I've checked the BBC weather website for the Telford weather which says "Damagaing winds and flooding from heavy rain both likely tonight." which is nice. The nearest weather station is at RAF Shawbury, a military base 17km away, and the wind is registering 31mph there but we're a bit more exposed here being on top of a hill so I wouldn't like to guess what it really is.
Still, could be worse - we were in a caravan (trailer to our American friends) last year right on the coast (a feet away from the sand) in a gale force wind that was so bad the site owners had to come and move some caravans and chain others to the floor. They were big static caravans - the type you have to transport on the back of a truck and the walls of the caravan were visibly bending inwards under the force of the wind. Now that was scary! Funnily enough, the kids slept right through it.