Hurricanes Irma .. and Jose

[oldcolner]

Good news. Seems a different story on the Keys and in Cuba.
Boris is off to help the Brits, Macron has gone to French islands, ( to escape problems at home) looks like it's going to cost lots.

[sinkov]

Our very own named storm is coming tonight, and this is why these high winds and bit of rain have a name,

"Aileen is the first storm to be named since this season's names were released last week, as part of the scheme by the Met Office and Met Eireann to raise awareness of extreme weather in the UK and Ireland."

FFS, we're being treated like children, an infantile naming process to raise awareness of extreme weather ? Utter drivel, if the weather is really extreme we'll soon be well enough aware of it. Why can't they be honest and tell us the real reason, it's all part of the Warmists propaganda to make us think the weather is worse than it used to be, and worse than it actually is.

Storm Aileen my arse.

[oldcolner]

Storm Aileen my arse.

Hope there isn't a need to evacuate!

[Norder]

Norder
That's very worrying,
Makes you wonder who's going Watt to whom

exactly Colner.....why aren't these powerful beasts ever considered when examaning the apparent causes of Global Warming - same as the millions of (microwave) cell phone towers around our planet.
Much like when we see whales and other aquatic mammals beaching themselves....military sonar experiments - never mentioned.

heres an interesting one - Top Gear.....and a very big engine.



Cheers.

[sinkov]

Our very own named storm is coming tonight, and this is why these high winds and bit of rain have a name,

"Aileen is the first storm to be named since this season's names were released last week, as part of the scheme by the Met Office and Met Eireann to raise awareness of extreme weather in the UK and Ireland."

FFS, we're being treated like children, an infantile naming process to raise awareness of extreme weather ? Utter drivel, if the weather is really extreme we'll soon be well enough aware of it. Why can't they be honest and tell us the real reason, it's all part of the Warmists propaganda to make us think the weather is worse than it used to be, and worse than it actually is.

Storm Aileen my arse.

Anyone lose any relatives or loved ones, anyone flooded, had their roof blown off or drive blocked by fallen trees ?

No, thought not.

[oldcolner]

Anyone lose any relatives or loved ones, anyone flooded, had their roof blown off or drive blocked by fallen trees ?

No, thought not.

A few did though

http://metro.co.uk/2017/09/13/farmer...loods-6924999/
https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/new...-storm-aileen/

[sinkov]

A few did though

http://metro.co.uk/2017/09/13/farmer...loods-6924999/
https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/new...-storm-aileen/

A few roads flooded, one car stuck in some deep water, that's what happens when it rains a lot, as it often does in the north of England and Scotland. It's normal bad weather, nothing extreme about it at all. How many died in this 'storm' which ravaged the UK ? None would be my guess, you'll know when the weather's extreme, people die.

[oldcolner]

Sinkov
The Met Office have always given storm warnings and the only new thing is naming them so that each is unique. Thus we will always remember Irma rather than the Vicar of Dibleys the big storm. Some storms won't do much some will. I think it's a good idea and they must find it useful as might insurance claims. Storms don't usually kill just cause floods and damage. The naming started after one did kill 17 people across Europe.

From https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wint...om_and_Ireland

The United Kingdom's Met Office, in collaboration with its Irish counterpart Met Éireann, decided to introduce a storm naming system following the St Jude’s day storm on 27–28 October 2013 which caused 17 deaths in Europe and the 2013–14 Atlantic winter storms in Europe to give a single, authoritative naming system to prevent confusion with the media and public using different names for the same storms.

[sinkov]

Yes OC, the Met Office have always given storm warnings and weather forcasts, that's their job, that's what they're for, but on post 22 I quoted the reason they gave for naming storms. Since when was it the job of the Met Office to 'raise awareness' of what they class as extreme weather ?

Not there was anything at all extreme about the weather this week, some high winds and heavy rain passed through virtually overnight and caused a bit of localised flooding, bad weather certainly, but bad weather is normal in this part of the world. So why are they trying to pass off a perfectly normal bout of high winds and heavy rain as extreme ?

[oldcolner]

No idea Sinkov. Rules is rules. It doesn't worry me except they choose weird names.
A few Aileens in Scotland but are there many in England?