Tomorrows storm upgraded to Red alert

[Ming the Merciless]

Storm Zebidee would be a bad one bouncing back and forth! Fences and trees flattened locally; garden fence has a wobbly post so I had strappped it to the next one and its still upright. Local sensationalist media had to run with a headliine of Tree could have falled on West Park (the bit of the A61 next to where fan parks have been) when it fact it "only" fell on a cabmans shelter which obviously was not sensational enough.

Storm Dylan would be too laid back

 

[newts]

Storm Zebidee could only happen in the springtime.
McHenry would probably be a Cyclone

 

[DCLane]

Racing tomorrow in Wakefield may be cancelled due to the next storm coming in.

It must be forecast to be bad. They didn't cancel a fortnight ago in torrential rain and winds.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Racing tomorrow in Wakefield may be cancelled due to the next storm coming in.

It must be forecast to be bad. They didn't cancel a fortnight ago in torrential rain and winds.

An audaxer due to ride one of my perms tomorrow has decided to delay till next weekend. Must be really bad …

 

[fossyant]

Just been informed that half the felt has come off MIL's shed and I've been tasked with refelting it. SIL didn't volunteer her husband....

 

[Alex321]

Take a look at your own link again. This time, look at the column titled "limits of wind speed", then tell me if you still think that gusts of 53 to 63 mph over a period of 9 hours doesn't constitute a "storm" (don't forget to convert knots to MPH as a nautical mile is longer than a standard mile, as I'm sure you know. That will actually help your case, but it's still a storm).

Well the winds are not forecast to be "Storm Force".

But if periods of a few hours with gusts reaching those speeds were storms, then we would have had rather more of them than we have recently.

By the way, the met office themselves don't seem to agree with your definition:

They don't disagree with it either.

They say it means different things to different people.

 

[Brandane]

February 2022 continues with it's non stop wind. It started mid January and forgot to settle down! The gust speeds for the week ahead on Costa Clyde are forecast to be:
Today 60 mph.
Monday 69 mph.
Tuesday 44 mph.
Wednesday 47 mph.
Thursday 47 mph.
Friday 33 mph.
Saturday 60 mph.
Sunday 54 mph.
'Snot stormy though 😂.

 

[midlife]

Storm Franklin as mentioned above coming

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-...weather-and-climate/2022/storm-franklin-named

 

[Oldhippy]

Utterly absurd that a First world country can't cope with a bit of weather. In Asia I had Typhoon season, earthquakes, rainy season and life carried on as normal. They know the bad weather is coming and run round cancelling huge chunks of the transport system without having sufficient plans in place like other countries. As for naming weather! Grrr. Sorry for the rant.

 

[Alex321]

Utterly absurd that a First world country can't cope with a bit of weather. In Asia I had Typhoon season, earthquakes, rainy season and life carried on as normal. They know the bad weather is coming and run round cancelling huge chunks of the transport system without having sufficient plans in place like other countries. As for naming weather! Grrr. Sorry for the rant.

What is "absurd" about it?

The costs of having everything set up to prevent disruption from something that happens less than once a decade would be absurd.

It would also make the country much less pleasant, as it would require cutting down all roadside trees big enough to block a road, and similarly trackside trees for railway lines.

 

[Oldhippy]

As Climate change gets worse we are really buggered then.

 

[MichaelW2]

What is "absurd" about it?

The costs of having everything set up to prevent disruption from something that happens less than once a decade would be absurd.

It would also make the country much less pleasant, as it would require cutting down all roadside trees big enough to block a road, and similarly trackside trees for railway lines.

We also need to prepare for once a century snowstorms, surge tides, droughts and heatwaves as well as nuclear war with Russia. We need to expand the Department of Departmental Affairs to coordinate coordination between Departments. We need to setup the Administration of Departmental Designated Emergency Responses ( ADDER).

 

[DRHysted]

Well after the fun of loading and offload lorries on Friday (sketchy was the best word I used). I will be loading road tankers next week, which involves being on top of them at the beginning and end of the load. Guess I’ll be testing the fall arrest systems.

 

[classic33]

What is "absurd" about it?

The costs of having everything set up to prevent disruption from something that happens less than once a decade would be absurd.

It would also make the country much less pleasant, as it would require cutting down all roadside trees big enough to block a road, and similarly trackside trees for railway lines.

If it is "once a decade" why are we on "F" in storm names going into week seven of 2022.

Lasting memory of winter weather in recent years was the picture of the cyclist being the only thing moving in an inch of snow.

 

[Alex321]

If it is "once a decade" why are we on "F" in storm names going into week seven of 2022.

Lasting memory of winter weather in recent years was the picture of the cyclist being the only thing moving in an inch of snow.

1. Yellow warnings for wind are enough to be named storms. Which is all most of them have been, and the country copes with yellow level just fine. Eunice was two levels higher as a red warning. I can't remember the last red warning we had round here. Arwen was Amber I believe, and was more problematic than the yellows, but still didn't cause quite as much immediate disruption.

2. The naming period runs September - August, not January - December, and sometimes what most of us would consider a single storm get two names.