and a foot of snow in Aviemore does not.
But just about every year we get a feature on the news showing just this along with people skiing (if it happens)
I have no interest in snow sports but this reporting doesn’t trigger any jingoistic/nationalist/regionalist reaction though. It’s probably just a slow news day.
Oh they’re a thing but I’ve seen them since I was a kid in England.
The easiest journey we have ever made from Macc to Portsmouth 4 hours mainly due to lack of lorries heading south. We left at 2pm and missed the worse if it.
Loads of issues on the northbound side so it was just pure luck.
Only issue is the ferry is boarding an hour late.
Ah. I see what you mean. Maybe it's a "Northern" thing...
I suspect the Southerners are just jealous because you can't deep fry avocado.
Or can you....
No idea what's going on this thread and I don't want to trawl through all nine pages to find out, but I've just lost a load of tiles off my roof. They've smashed a chunk out of my gutter on the way down too. (Sheffield)
Trees have brought a power line down at work. I didn’t get called out and only found out a little while ago after my boss sent a vague text. Luckily Western Power have sorted it. I’ll inspect tomorrow and get the saws on anything that needs it
It just seems to be a thing across the ‘U’K that people fuss about weather that people in many places would just shrug off… be it snow, wind, rain or heat…
And the weather is Scotland isn’t much different from the weather in Wales…
teams working through the night to patch up the beaches before tomorrow's tide.
I wonder if most people on this thread understand how hard it is to walk or even remain standing still at these kinds of wind speeds
I usually love wild, windy weather, but trying to get around the main site at work today proved just too challenging for me, gusts nearly took me off my feet several times, and I’ve got enough health problems without suffering a broken wrist or other injury, so I came home just after lunch. There are trees surrounding the site, and the roaring noise was unbelievable, when I sat in my car it was like I’d gone deaf, the sudden silence.
Thankfully, the drive home on the A350 was uneventful, although there was a big conifer down across one side of the Lacock junction, with a bunch of bloke working frantically with chainsaws and a big chipper to clear the road for when it gets really busy later.
It just seems to be a thing across the ‘U’K that people fuss about weather that people in many places would just shrug off…
Different countries are different shockingly.
OH's sister lives in Tennessee in an area known for storms and heavy winds party due to the geology and obviously the geography.
They tend to have basements to hide in. 65-100mph winds are still considered a problem there. Trees will still get blown over, roofs will get ripped off. It will be on the news there. You just don't hear about it unless it's a massive one, because why would you?
are you referring to the Somerset levels flooding where a handful of rich farms in safe Tory seats got wet (bear in mind they’re at or below sea level anyway)?
Some of those farms had belonged to the same families for generations, and the flooding was expected and allowed for, due to systems built by local monks a thousand years ago. Entire livelihoods were threatened by one senior individual at the Environment Agency taking away the rights of the local authorities to regularly dredge the drainage channels, causing them to silt up, because he felt that those farms were better used as a flooded wetlands for wildlife, rather than a rich and highly productive food producing environment.
The gentleman was removed, the local authorities given their dredging rights back, there’s been no significant flooding since, and a large area of land along the coast nearby has been repurposed to a proper salt marsh/ wetland environment which is already proving its worth for wildlife, while also helping alleviate flooding further inland. Everyone wins.
Meanwhile, Neil Oliver is complaining about ‘woke’ snowflakes whining about a bit of a breeze…
it’s a good thing the second truck avoided the crashed one, otherwise there would have been a lot more wreckage to clear up!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-60434235
Looks like it might have been on its way to Copart.
Pilot got us down on the second attempt at Leeds/Bradford
Anyone seen TJ and Neil Oliver together?
Weren't they both extras in Braveheart?
They both wear a cravat. Hmm....
Only one of them is an utter bellend though.
who is now rather better known as one of the faces of GB News.
I had no idea, that's really cheered me up!
For years I have intensely disliked Neil Oliver but always felt uncomfortable as I couldn't really pin it on anything in particular, at last he's given me a reason 🙂
OH’s sister lives in Tennessee in an area known for storms and heavy winds party due to the geology
I'm gagging to hear how "geology" can impact the weather
Hello chaps? I am astonished that a throwaway remark caused so much angst. Very amusing. I wasn't nasty to anyone.
Why take it so seriously? Take the piss by all means but the amount of angst it generated is unreasonable
I did not say it was not worth reporting
Johnson chairs a cobra meeting for this but not for the previous storm that affected the north badly and he couldn't be bothered doing COBRA for covid!
Ah, the mythical Edinburgh defence…
The Godfather of tedious ruined topics has arrived. I doff my cap and bow out, the forum, is, as it ever was, yours.
I’m gagging to hear how “geology” can impact the weather
Wait until you hear about the butterfly, it will blow your mind!
Buildings in the the middle of the US are generally made to appallingly low standards. Crappy timber frame construction with a masonry strong room for hiding from tornadoes, straight line winds etc
They prefer to build shit buildings and replace them when broken rather than build a more expensive stronger building to start with
Eldest meant to be travelling home by train today, Cambridge to Derby, to play in some concerts. Rail enquiries suggest that is unlikely to happen.
His Plan B was to go into London and back out, which is looking just as unlikely. I'm watching the curling and wondering what time he'll a) wake up b) check c) message me to go and fetch him
Pilot got us down on the second attempt at Leeds/Bradford
We can watch the LBA landings from our kitchen window; and they can be awful at the best of times due to the cross winds. Glad you got down safely!!
He was up early, I'm just off to Cambridge...
I’m gagging to hear how “geology” can impact the weather
couple of mountain ranges that funnel the wind.
I’m gagging to hear how “geology” can impact the weather
Fill your boots:
https://www.bgs.ac.uk/discovering-geology/climate-change/
Topography would probably be a better description.
couple of mountain ranges that funnel the wind.
Geography rather than geology
For years I have intensely disliked Neil Oliver but always felt uncomfortable as I couldn’t really pin it on anything in particular, at last he’s given me a reason 🙂
Exactly this! It's great when your instinct is justified.
I’m gagging to hear how “geology” can impact the weather
Vulcanism?
I wonder if most people on this thread understand how hard it is to walk or even remain standing still at these kinds of wind speeds
Very much agree with this. I've been blown off my feet once (in Iceland, 85mph gust) and it wasn't a fun experience. You don't get knocked over comedy-style like you're hinged from your feet. Instead you're suddenly quite a long way away from where you were standing in a painful and bloody heap on the floor.
Didn't get my Strava KOM yesterday, but did make the top-30 out of 9000 people on a 3 mile flat segment. Averaged more than 30mph coming back but the ride out was unpleasant.
couple of mountain ranges that funnel the wind.
Apparently in the case of Tennessee it's more than that :
"We were just dealt a bad hand geologically,” explains former MTSU geologist Dr. Albert Ogden.
Hayling bridge was closed for the first time in 40 years yesterday.
Cross winds snd flooding either side deemed it too dangerous for a couple of hours.
A transit Luton van followed me across at 11am. The wind took the back axle away and it drifted across the carriage way as tge driving sawed at the wheel to catch it. Then 30mtr further on it did again, the van rocking then the rear sliding out toward the parapet.
As the angle increased the wind becomes more tangentle so he caught it again, then drove home for clean pants
I stupidly went for a cycle. For those that have ridden Yair all the good stuff around raylees is now wrecked.
I watched half a dozen trees come down and heard at least 20 more break and snap. I was trying for shelter in the Lee of the wood watching big trees just fall over
It's still rattling thru Europe
I’m gagging to hear how “geology” can impact the weather
Vulcanism?
I was going to add "except for vulcanism" but lost the will to live
I know Spock was gifted but he couldn't influence windstorms
Geologists are weighing in on why Tennessee is so vulnerable to the impact of severe weather. According to one Vanderbilt study- the varied topography of our state leads to diverse climate conditions that produce various forms of extreme weather.
So it doesn't claim the "geology" impacts the weather....it says topography does and geology makes it vulnerable to the resulting weather...E.G. Sinkholes
I was going to add “except for vulcanism” but lost the will to live
I thought you were gagging to hear?
Orographic effects?
