Storms

[ColinDouglasHandshake]

What is the obsession with rebranding usual winter weather as named storms and then proceeding to try and panic people all the time? Why has the media got an obsession with exaggerated panic?

Storm Arwen is upon us now which to me, simply translates as a weekend of wintry weather. Man alive, they think we live in the American mid west or something like Tornado Alley or Svalbard. I'm expecting a polar bear in my back yard any moment.

Read a headline in the Sheffield Star yesterday telling people to stay home and stock up on food!!

f**k me! When do the zombies arrive?

Storm Arwen is literally 2 days of winter weather and yet they want people to retreat into their own network of underground bunkers! God help them if they lived on Shetland.

Since when did winter weather become something that people should be preoccupied about?

Headlines every week proclaiming, "ARCTIC BLAST TO FREEZE UK!' or "UK TO BE COLDER THAN ANTARCTICA!" and then when you actually read the article it says that there will be some significant snowfall on a mountain next to a small village about 20 miles west of Inverness and the rest of the UK is business as usual. So, not widespread chaos then?

It is like saying that there is a heatwave in summer. Err yeah. It is summer you know, ie hot.

It is not Storm Arwen. It is simply a wintry weekend.

[SydneyRover]

CDH, the agencies that give out warnings have a duty to do it, it's in their remit.

Storm Arwen: Two men die as gale-force winds hit UK

''Two men have been killed by falling trees as Storm Arwen lashed parts of the UK with high winds, rain and snow.

A head teacher died after a tree fell onto his car in Antrim and another man was hit by a falling tree in Cumbria. In Scotland, more than 100,000 people lost power.

Gusts reached speeds of 98mph in Northumberland, and about 120 lorries became stuck in snow on the M62''

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-59435965

[Glyn_Wigley]

When was the last time rail services were cancelled because of a gust of wind?

[BillyStubbsTears]

Or this?
https://twitter.com/ConorGogarty/status/1464568646517366785?t=t_z6SMo0W0MivwBHLGOGjA

[Ldr]

It was a bit breezy up here last night

[normal rules]

My sister in law called this morning. Her in laws who live in Whitley bay lost the whole house gable end last night which landed on their car and crushed it. There are many many incidents like this .
Hurricane force winds start at 73 mph. They recorded winds of 98 mph in Northumberland. This was no ordinary winter weather. It was an exceptional storm.

[BillyStubbsTears]

This also in Sunderland.

[Glyn_Wigley]

My stepdaughter and some of the grandkids went to the theatre in York last night. They saw a street lamp blown over right in front of them.

[ColinDouglasHandshake]

My sister in law called this morning. Her in laws who live in Whitley bay lost the whole house gable end last night which landed on their car and crushed it. There are many many incidents like this .
Hurricane force winds start at 73 mph. They recorded winds of 98 mph in Northumberland. This was no ordinary winter weather. It was an exceptional storm.

Indeed but it lasted about half a day. Hardly anything out of the ordinary.

[normal rules]

3 dead. 60000 still without power in Scotland. 50000 without power in the north east Police in north east Scotland have declared a major incident and warned disruption could last several days.
In some areas hot food and drinks are being supplied to people who have spent two nights without electricity.
Diesel generators are also being deployed to community hospitals and care homes in Aberdeenshire.

Hardly anything out of the ordinary.,

[Colemans Left Hook]

This also in Sunderland.

Obviously those bricks weren't made in Doncaster like the one on my avator

Doncaster bricks like D.R.F.C.  "stick together"  in good and bad times

[normal rules]

This is sister in laws, in laws house. Whitley bay. That’s was their car also.

[Axholme Lion]

This also in Sunderland.

Obviously those bricks weren't made in Doncaster like the one on my avator

Doncaster bricks like D.R.F.C.  "stick together"  in good and bad times

I could do with them to make a path with in my garden. I got around three hundred old Yorkshire Brick Co. Edlington from a lady on Gumtree. Ten quid for the lot, bargain!

[Colin C No.3]

Or this?
https://twitter.com/ConorGogarty/status/1464568646517366785?t=t_z6SMo0W0MivwBHLGOGjA

That’s a heck of a smokers cough.