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mark occomore
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 9955 Location: UK
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Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 6:15 am Post subject: Rain And Wind Batters Britian |
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The Met Office has warned that people should stay in does this mean lots of people are taking today off?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7285859.stm |
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Niblet
Joined: 23 Feb 2008 Posts: 119
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Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 6:49 am Post subject: |
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Of course
My boss always lets us do what the met office suggests.
Inland South Wales didn't get as battered as expected last night - we've had far worse nights this winter. The warnings are still in place though. Maybe we'll get to finish early (said optimistically but unexpectantly) _________________ ~~~ Niblet ~~~
The corn has escaped from the cob! |
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Lord Evan Elpuss
Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 3417 Location: Cloud Cuckoo Land
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MadeinSurrey
Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 3130 Location: The Beautiful South
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Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 9:40 am Post subject: |
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Mark, please note we live in Great BRITAIN. You never spell it rite. _________________ MiS |
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Lord Evan Elpuss
Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 3417 Location: Cloud Cuckoo Land
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Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 10:00 am Post subject: |
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We all make misteaks!! _________________ Lord Evan Elpuss, Your ideal job is a Lumberjack. |
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MadeinSurrey
Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 3130 Location: The Beautiful South
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Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 10:00 am Post subject: |
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Indood we de! _________________ MiS |
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iwarburton
Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 2133 Location: Northumberland
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Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 12:36 pm Post subject: |
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This time we're not getting the worst of it.
Ian. |
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tarahrah bomdiay
Joined: 17 Dec 2007 Posts: 260
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Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 12:43 pm Post subject: |
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Well I'm taking today off and the next 6 weeks doctors orders unfortunately.
I was pretty glad I didn't have to go out whe I heard the wind blowing like a loon but why all the hysterical coverage. I know it was a big storm but it's not as if it hasn't happend before, only in Britain |
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RockitRon
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 7646
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Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 1:37 pm Post subject: |
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I think, having been caught short so many times in the past, the Met Office have now decided to overstate the likely severity of weather conditions in the hope that we'll all be heartily relieved and pleased with them when most of us come through whatever Mother Nature habitually throws at the British Isles relatively unscathed.
There could still be a sting in the tail of this one, and I can hear the wind getting up as I type this. I would still rather have it the way this and other storms this winter have been predicted, rather than be caught off guard. _________________ Ron |
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John W
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 3367 Location: Warwickshire, UK
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Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 2:17 pm Post subject: |
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Seems to me another case of sensationalist reporting, or predicting, of severe weather which to be honest hasn't happened. Blustery winds would be a good description, saw a BBC news reporter this morning hanging onto a lampost in Brighton :
A few trees down. The most dramatic e-mail sent to Skynews was from a woman in a caravan in Wales who was kept up all night with the rain : oh and, honest, one from a woman who found her drenched cat on the doorstep, I don't know how Eamonn Holmes kept a straight face, he usually cracks up at stuff like this
Here in the Midlands it rained a little about 8.15am....... it was glorious sunshine (9.10am) when I went out, then a bit of rain at 1.30pm. I think I'll go out a prune some hedges.
Come on, we had much worse weather last SUMMER!
Oh, the weathermen's blushes have been spared, a tanker ran aground off the the Isle of Wight. |
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Behind Geddon's Wall
Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 1553 Location: Kingston Upon Hull/ The Cloud Factory
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Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 4:25 pm Post subject: |
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A mite damp and drizzley east of the pennines. Even the advisory speed limit J36/37 M62 has been lifted. _________________ Geddon
You simply mustn't blame yourself -- the days were perfect
And so were exactly what I was born to spoil
For I am the Rider to the World's End
Bound across the cinder causeway
From the furnace to the quarry
Through the fields of oil |
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RockitRon
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Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 5:01 pm Post subject: |
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Yes, we have had it worse than this, even in the South-west, without the hyperbolic reporting. It's a slow news day; perhaps we should be grateful that there's not some major tragedy or violent action somewhere in the world to take our media's mind off it. _________________ Ron |
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Cherskiy
Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 3701 Location: near Amble, Northumberland
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Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 8:30 pm Post subject: |
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John W wrote: | Seems to me another case of sensationalist reporting, or predicting, of severe weather which to be honest hasn't happened. |
John, I liked a text sent into R5Live this afternoon, which went along the lines of "a slight breeze ruffled my newspaper as I was reading it in the park, and I had to grab the top of the page."
Sort of summed it all up, really. _________________ Author: “To the Ends of the Earth: A Snapshot of Aviation in North-Eastern Siberia, Summer 1992”
(Free to read via Kindle Unlimited) |
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iwarburton
Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 2133 Location: Northumberland
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Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 12:52 pm Post subject: |
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This time we're not getting the worst of it.
Ian.
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It now looks as if we'll get it tonight and tomorrow.
But not a bad day so far.
Ian. |
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Behind Geddon's Wall
Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 1553 Location: Kingston Upon Hull/ The Cloud Factory
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Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 1:10 pm Post subject: |
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Apparently it may get a little draughty this evening and early Wednesday, but as it's north of Watford, they'll not send any reporters. _________________ Geddon
You simply mustn't blame yourself -- the days were perfect
And so were exactly what I was born to spoil
For I am the Rider to the World's End
Bound across the cinder causeway
From the furnace to the quarry
Through the fields of oil |
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Lord Evan Elpuss
Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 3417 Location: Cloud Cuckoo Land
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Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 8:29 pm Post subject: |
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Behind Geddon's Wall wrote: | Apparently it may get a little draughty this evening and early Wednesday, but as it's north of Watford, they'll not send any reporters. |
Not even to stand on the prom to be lashed by the waves while saying "stay indoors if you don't have to go out"!! _________________ Lord Evan Elpuss, Your ideal job is a Lumberjack. |
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gfloyd
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 4861 Location: Here, There, Everywhere.
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Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 8:43 pm Post subject: |
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Cherskiy wrote: | John W wrote: | Seems to me another case of sensationalist reporting, or predicting, of severe weather which to be honest hasn't happened. |
John, I liked a text sent into R5Live this afternoon, which went along the lines of "a slight breeze ruffled my newspaper as I was reading it in the park, and I had to grab the top of the page."
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I wonder if the smart alecks could do a better forecast themselves. You would love to follow them round and criticse their job performance sometimes.
The UK is a very small target at the edge of a large ocean. If the storm track deviates 50miles north or south of the most likely tack, we can have either nothing or a massive storm. Its not a very large margin of error when the size of the North Atlantic is considered. _________________ His name was ernie ........ and he drove the fastest milk cart in the west..... |
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Lord Evan Elpuss
Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 3417 Location: Cloud Cuckoo Land
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Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 10:50 pm Post subject: |
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gfloyd wrote: |
The UK is a very small target at the edge of a large ocean. If the storm track deviates 50miles north or south of the most likely tack, we can have either nothing or a massive storm. Its not a very large margin of error when the size of the North Atlantic is considered. |
And the best example of that, of course, happened in October 1987, that storm took a more north-easterly track (across the UK) than first thought (along the English Channel) And we all know what that one did! _________________ Lord Evan Elpuss, Your ideal job is a Lumberjack. |
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Behind Geddon's Wall
Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 1553 Location: Kingston Upon Hull/ The Cloud Factory
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Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 8:49 am Post subject: |
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Wonder of wonders, the fact that the Humber Bridge was closed to High sided Vehicles actually made the R2 news. _________________ Geddon
You simply mustn't blame yourself -- the days were perfect
And so were exactly what I was born to spoil
For I am the Rider to the World's End
Bound across the cinder causeway
From the furnace to the quarry
Through the fields of oil |
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Spanners
Joined: 05 Jan 2008 Posts: 169 Location: Lincolnshire
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Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 11:23 am Post subject: |
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Was woken in the night to hear a strange noise, which sounded like someone tapping out morse. Couldn't find the source of the noise but in the cold light of day realised that it was the antennae on my indoor tv aerial which was vibrating to the wind howling around my farm house. The strange thing is that I slept through the recent earthquake which woke the rest of the nation!!
Spanners _________________ Useful for tightening nuts. |
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