Priti priti priti Patel Posted September 14, 2018 Share Posted September 14, 2018 21 hours ago, welshbairn said: Getting a bit wild across the pond. Looks quite sedate this morning. Lovely sun rise 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgecutter Posted September 14, 2018 Share Posted September 14, 2018 20 hours ago, dorlomin said: Super Typhoon Mangkhut, headed to make landfall in the Philippines is currently the equivalent of a Cat 5 Hurricane. Florence headed to the US will not hit with winds as damaging as some The news pissed me off last night when they dedicated half of it to a hurricane that they kept saying had died down somewhat (and interviewing people who were simply saying not to get complacent), and then giving a mere 10 seconds, if that, to say "meanwhile, a super-typhoon is set to hit the Philippines". Typical knicker-wetting if anything might happen to a country in the West but standard 'meh' fare when something stronger is set to have a more devastating effect on a poorer one. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted September 14, 2018 Share Posted September 14, 2018 26 minutes ago, Margaret Thatcher said: Looks quite sedate this morning. Lovely sun rise This. Is that it done or is it still on its way? Has the fleg been blow off? Spoiler 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boghead ranter Posted September 15, 2018 Share Posted September 15, 2018 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boghead ranter Posted September 15, 2018 Share Posted September 15, 2018 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zetterlund Posted September 15, 2018 Share Posted September 15, 2018 2 hours ago, Boghead ranter said: #FakeNewsWeather 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8MileBU Posted September 17, 2018 Share Posted September 17, 2018 Storm Helene giving Campbeltown a good blow just now. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stellaboz Posted September 17, 2018 Share Posted September 17, 2018 "Storm Helene". What a massive knob of a country that gives normal weather a fucking name. Or any weather for that matter. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zen Archer (Raconteur) Posted September 17, 2018 Share Posted September 17, 2018 1 minute ago, Stellaboz said: "Storm Helene". What a massive knob of a country that gives normal weather a fucking name. Or any weather for that matter. It's blowing a Hoolie out there. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted September 17, 2018 Share Posted September 17, 2018 Heard on the radio this morning that people in the flooded parts of South Carolina (or maybe it was North Carolina) being advised not to take their cars out onto the roads. If you don’t know that without being told you are better of dead and not diminishing the gene pool further. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The DA Posted September 18, 2018 Share Posted September 18, 2018 12 hours ago, Zen Archer said: It's blowing a Hoolie out there. Alasdair Hoolie of Campbeltown would like to say a big thank you to Helene. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AL-FFC Posted September 18, 2018 Share Posted September 18, 2018 See this is what gets me the UK has done without naming storms for years so now we start naming them "why" it's sh*te weather we live in the UK its pretty much the norm and as for the stong gusts of wind every other country considers this something to flap about in Scotland thats called a good drying day providing its not p*ssing it down. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stellaboz Posted September 18, 2018 Share Posted September 18, 2018 A whirlygig day. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dorlomin Posted September 18, 2018 Share Posted September 18, 2018 1 hour ago, AL-FFC said: See this is what gets me the UK has done without naming storms for years so now we start naming them "why" It was seen by the communications people at the Met office as a good way of increasing public awareness of life threatening storms. Is the same reason as they introduced the colour codes for warnings a few years back. This has been a trend across the world. Storms have been named here int he UK but usually only after they caused a lot of damage, the idea is to name them before so people will listen to the weather a bit more closely. The current storm however is named "Helena" as it was named by the US by the National Hurricane Center when it reached tropical storm strength. By convention the storms retain their names from when they were hurricanes rather than be assigned one from the Met Office\Met Eireanne list. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stellaboz Posted September 18, 2018 Share Posted September 18, 2018 People are fucking idiots and if you need a storm given a name to act responsibly, then you don't deserve to breath ffs. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dorlomin Posted September 18, 2018 Share Posted September 18, 2018 5 minutes ago, Stellaboz said: People are fucking idiots And the less of those idiots the emergency services have to rescue the better. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stellaboz Posted September 18, 2018 Share Posted September 18, 2018 Fair point. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Parr Posted September 18, 2018 Share Posted September 18, 2018 Storms being given a name is not something worth getting in a flap over. I have a scroll through the National Hurricane Center's site occasionally at this time of year when the action is heating up and it's more straightforward for systems to be referenced by name than by a code - 'e.g. Depression 15E etc'. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stellaboz Posted September 18, 2018 Share Posted September 18, 2018 Cold front, warm front. Hurricane. Typhoon. It's not hard. All this personification of weather can f**k OFF 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aubrey Maturin Posted September 18, 2018 Share Posted September 18, 2018 3 minutes ago, Stellaboz said: Cold front, warm front. Hurricane. Typhoon. It's not hard. All this personification of weather can f**k OFF Whether you like it or not, it's here to stay. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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