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  • BBMmk2
    Late Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 20908

    Be safe, usher! No going out for the paper!!
    Don’t cry for me
    I go where music was born

    J S Bach 1685-1750

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    • BBMmk2
      Late Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 20908

      Looks like another storm coming to poor old Blighty!
      Don’t cry for me
      I go where music was born

      J S Bach 1685-1750

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      • mangerton
        Full Member
        • Nov 2010
        • 3346

        Originally posted by Anna View Post
        The last legs of storm Gertrude I think, it was awful here too. Still plenty of yellow and amber warnings for Scotland (it seems yesterday Dundee had 80mph winds!!) and lots more wind problems over the UK on Monday it seems, but not too much in the way of rain. Today's been rather nice and sunny but a lot colder.
        Yes, it was quite windy on Friday. The road bridge was shut for much of the day. Yesterday it snowed overnight and there were brief periods of snow during the day, but it didn't lie.

        Today it's overcast, 2º C, but quite windless.

        By the way, I really don't get this naming storms. What is the point?

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        • Anna

          Originally posted by mangerton View Post
          By the way, I really don't get this naming storms. What is the point?
          It's so that people are aware, prepared to take action and consequently can't blame the Met Office for not telling them when they lose their roof tiles or get flooded! I think it stems from the really bad storms (the ones that washed away the railway line at Dawlish, etc.) being named St. Jude and St. Crispin by the tabloids and the idea caught on.

          However, I am against it for the simple reason of the boy who cried Wolf, because no storm affects all the UK at the same time, illustrated by Petrushka above saying it's just been a damp squib - we'll get so used to dismissing and ignoring named storms as not affecting us that when a proper one strikes we'll be all at sea unprepared.

          Having said all that mangerton, there's a nasty orange wind warning sitting on top of Scotland for Monday and Tuesday!

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          • ferneyhoughgeliebte
            Gone fishin'
            • Sep 2011
            • 30163

            Originally posted by Brassbandmaestro View Post
            What was happening last night? Never heard a storm like we had before! Pretty scary!
            Weren't you living near the South East Coast in 1987, Bbm? Now that was a storm! AND didn't need no poncy southern NAME, either! (Although some of us called it "Fish's Error".)
            [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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            • BBMmk2
              Late Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 20908

              Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
              Weren't you living near the South East Coast in 1987, Bbm? Now that was a storm! AND didn't need no poncy southern NAME, either! (Although some of us called it "Fish's Error".)
              Yes I was. Same town as I am now! I thought the wind this time was harder in sound than in 1987
              Don’t cry for me
              I go where music was born

              J S Bach 1685-1750

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              • mangerton
                Full Member
                • Nov 2010
                • 3346

                Originally posted by Anna View Post
                Having said all that mangerton, there's a nasty orange wind warning sitting on top of Scotland for Monday and Tuesday!
                Thanks Anna for the information about named storms, and for the orange wind warning.

                It's a damn nuisance when the road bridge shuts, as a lot of people use it on a daily basis and it's a long detour via Perth. I want to visit Aged Mother in St A tomorrow morning before work, so I hope all is well.

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                • usher

                  Originally posted by Brassbandmaestro View Post
                  Be safe, usher! No going out for the paper!!
                  Thank you! I have to get my daily crossword fix regardless of the weather!

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                  • BBMmk2
                    Late Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 20908

                    Originally posted by usher View Post
                    Thank you! I have to get my daily crossword fix regardless of the weather!
                    Absolutely! Back to the wet stuff today! :(
                    Don’t cry for me
                    I go where music was born

                    J S Bach 1685-1750

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                    • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                      Gone fishin'
                      • Sep 2011
                      • 30163

                      Mixed day today in this bit of the Pennines: clear skies and sunshine this morning - right up to the point when I was furthest from home on my walk, at which point the heavens opened with a downpour of heavy drizzle. This stopped about half-an-hour after I got back in, and the sun came back out - y'know: daring me! Very windy and overcast since it saw I wasn't going to accept the challenge.
                      [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                      • Serial_Apologist
                        Full Member
                        • Dec 2010
                        • 37637

                        Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                        Mixed day today in this bit of the Pennines: clear skies and sunshine this morning - right up to the point when I was furthest from home on my walk, at which point the heavens opened with a downpour of heavy drizzle. This stopped about half-an-hour after I got back in, and the sun came back out - y'know: daring me! Very windy and overcast since it saw I wasn't going to accept the challenge.
                        From reports this lunchtime, I'm amazed that you managed to stay upright on your walk, ferney!

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                        • Nick Armstrong
                          Host
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 26524

                          Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
                          From reports this lunchtime, I'm amazed that you managed to stay upright on your walk, ferney!
                          Ferney been on the local news again...?

                          ?

                          "...the isle is full of noises,
                          Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                          Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                          Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                          • BBMmk2
                            Late Member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 20908

                            As it turned out to be a rather nice day today! happy to see the you know what!!
                            Don’t cry for me
                            I go where music was born

                            J S Bach 1685-1750

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                            • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                              Gone fishin'
                              • Sep 2011
                              • 30163

                              Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                              Ferney been on the local news again...?
                              Originally posted by Brassbandmaestro View Post
                              happy to see the you know what!!
                              Not just the local news, then
                              [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                              • eighthobstruction
                                Full Member
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 6433

                                Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                                Not just the local news, then
                                ....and was it nice out?....
                                bong ching

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