[Closed] Well this could be interesting, hurricane ophelia

molgrips - Member

The whole point about news is that it's things that don't happen very often

No it isn't.

It can't affect Scotland. Laura Bicker is no longer around to report from some godforsaken Ayrshire coastal toon whilst hardly able stay vertical. 😕

why is it forecast to curve to the left, when the ones near the US curve to the right?

Rossby waves

Won't someone think of [s]the children[/s] Renton's pride and joy?

[url= http://www.europeanwindstorms.org/cgi-bin/storms/storms.cgi?sort=loss&opt= ]European Windstorm Catalogue[/url]

Great Storm of '87 is the fourth largest storm by insured loss and third if only storms affecting the UK are considered. Losses are adjusted for inflation.

If you're interested in wind storms / hurricanes then it's well worth clicking around that website, and maybe reading the paper associated with it.

Great Storm of '87 is the fourth largest storm by insured loss and third if only storms affecting the UK are considered. Losses are adjusted for inflation.

Molgrips is right too. Severe storms are less newsworthy when they are frequent. OTOH we up here are getting pretty fed up of severe weather warnings that never come to anything. We reached the "boy who cried wolf" stage years ago.

I was 11 for the 87 storm, it blew the conservatory roof off our house, destroyed 2/3 of our barns, blew the gym roof off the school.

no power for two weeks, no phone for a month. cooked on a barbecue in the garage.

and the cherry on the cake, a whole week off school and enough wood to power the stove for about ten years.

At least it’ll bring a bit of warmth and some waves to play on.

At least it’ll bring a bit of warmth and some waves to play on.

Aye, a balmy 17deg before 8am this morning!

Yep was 14degrees at 3am, and was a hot and very quick ride to work this morning.

^^^^ Won't be so quick on the way home though !

Won't be so quick on the way home though !

Just as well I'm not riding home today, off to the caravan and my wife's picking me up from work 🙂

For the bike commuter there's nothing better than a monster tailwind in knowing you're not riding into it on the way home

Couldn't believe how warm it was first thing ...a bit blowy but nothing too bad

geoffj - Member
It can't affect Scotland. Laura Bicker is no longer around to report from some godforsaken Ayrshire coastal toon whilst hardly able stay vertical.

Saltcoats...... new sea defences installed to protect the trains.... not working yet...

Now forecast to track further south, so NI, S Scotland and N England.

scotroutes - Member

Now forecast to track further south, so [s]NI[/s] Ireland, S Scotland and N England.

Wonderful.

Ireland and Northern Ireland in for a wild day 😯

Ireland have dispatched the Army to help with defences and evacuation (if needed) which in this day and age is like foresight !
Stay safe, looks like the west coastline all over will be battered..

I got proper sharp tan lines on my arms riding yesterday - just assumed it was general muck and would wash off in the shower, but the sharpest lines I've had all year - in mid October, in Leicestershire 8)

I was in manchester for the 87 storm - I don't remember it being anything very much

I was in manchester for the 87 storm - I don't remember it being anything very much

That’s because the main track was up the channel and through the SE.

I flew over the jet stream feeding this storm today on my way back from the states. Proper severe turbulence, and a very cleanly formed cloud line.

Nice wind animation / forcast

https://www.windy.com/?51.802,-4.971,5

jambo - point being if it happens in the south its news, in the north its not

Main reason it was so destructive is that trees were still in full leaf but the ground was very wet hence all the trees down

Still - it could have been hurricane bawbag

jambo - point being if it happens in the south its news, in the north its not

Bullshit.

It was news because 18 people died and millions of pounds of damage and disruption was done.

Flip sake all NI schools closed.

tjagain - Member
jambo - point being if it happens in the south its news, in the north its not

Main reason it was so destructive is that trees were still in full leaf but the ground was very wet hence all the trees down

The antecedent conditions help to explain why so many trees were damaged but doesn't really contribute to the roof being peeled off a school, or the gable end of a house is pulled off the building.

Lots of ill-informed opinion on this thread but hey it's STW so let's all type a load of rubbish and pontificate. I'm still waiting for somebody to mention "vernacular architecture" and a discussion on the application and relevance of "building codes"......

To be fair given how shoddily Edinburgh schools are built I'd close them too.

Better at home than risk a building, or part of it, coming down.

BlindMelon - Member

Flip sake all NI schools closed.

All schools on the island of Ireland are closed. Nothing much doing at the minute though.

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It was news because 18 people died and millions of pounds of damage and disruption was done

FWIW Dyke moved the BBC as the weather described shit weather and finished with " the good news is its moving up North soon so we will be over the worst

In essence both of you have a point there is a bias the storm was bad

On the Belfast -Cairnryan ferry at the moment, nothing to report. Although the trucks were loaded on the upper deck and cars on the lower, usually the other way round.

Sky is a very strange colour here in south wales.
Also strange is that It's cold with warm gusts of wind.

We’ve got an ESE’ly 15knt wind direction at the mo’...

Which means it’s just started to drag the warm air from Europe..

Shorts on then..

it's currently 19 deg in south devon.

Well the Ventusky site is looking very colourful! 😯

https://www.ventusky.com/?p=54.0;-4.8;5&l=gust

Stay safe folks.

Sky is a very strange colour here in south wales.

Same in East Lancs. A very weird yellow tinge and it doesn't seem to have got properly light at all

Anyone else remember the storm of 2 January 1976? We had nine elms blown down in our garden, and I remember standing outside listening to the angry howl of the wind. It was my 12th birthday.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/j.1477-8696.1976.tb04429.x/full

Same in East Lancs. A very weird yellow tinge and it doesn't seem to have got properly light at all

Looks very odd indeed...

I wouldn't fancy being on the Holyhead <-> Dublin ferry today 😯

Sky is a very strange colour here in south wales.

aye 9.30 looked like dust this morning, still kinda dark just now, pissing down up here, not much else to report.

Yup, not full daylight in Eccles yet either, saying that it's a good thing as Eccles is well grim

[quote=IHN ]I wouldn't fancy being on the Holyhead <-> Dublin ferry today

https://www.stenaline.co.uk/ferries-to-ireland/latest-sailing-updates/holyhead-dublin-port

looks like the crew didn't either...

Dunno whats giving the sky around Manchester its weird colour, but its making the sun a dull orange orb.

Very odd.