Stormageddon Mk 6 The Fury of February

Stormageddon Mk 6 The Fury of February

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Yertis

18,591 posts

272 months

Monday 6th February 2017
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I've actually given up entirely on weather forecasts. There is so much hyperbole that its become impossible to separate 'what will probably happen' (ie nothing much) from the most extreme possibility, which is what is usually reported. I just take a hat, in case it rains.

Seems to me that all this nonsense started during the Blair years to underpin the assertion that we would see 'more extreme weather events'. Well, I've seen some pretty extreme weather in my life but none of it within the last 35 years.

Puggit

48,781 posts

254 months

Monday 6th February 2017
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A week's worth of rain in a day is nothing. It's not rare for a month's rain to fall locally at times.

Typical hyperbole from papers.

Digga

41,125 posts

289 months

Monday 6th February 2017
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Yertis said:
I've actually given up entirely on weather forecasts. There is so much hyperbole that its become impossible to separate 'what will probably happen' (ie nothing much) from the most extreme possibility, which is what is usually reported.
Me too.

If I'd have listened to last months "thunderstorm" fantasy-dressed-as-weather-forecasting, I'd have staying indoors, but instead, me and a mate went on a mountain bike night ride and saw all of about 2" of snow and no thunder.



MartG

21,166 posts

210 months

Monday 6th February 2017
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techiedave said:
"a week's worth of rain"

"a fifth of February's average rainfall is due to fall in one day"

Errr - pretty sure there are only 4 weeks in February wink

Digga

41,125 posts

289 months

Monday 6th February 2017
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MartG said:
"a week's worth of rain"

"a fifth of February's average rainfall is due to fall in one day"

Errr - pretty sure there are only 4 weeks in February wink
Not so much a leap year as jump the shark year.

pim

2,344 posts

130 months

Monday 6th February 2017
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When you watch the weather forecast on the BBC in the morning is it Carrol I believe?

She goes on and on and on.Mentions Scotland frequently.

She looks a nice lady.I take it all with a pinch of salt.I ususally check my Barometer pressure a good indication.

Digga

41,125 posts

289 months

Monday 6th February 2017
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pim said:
When you watch the weather forecast on the BBC in the morning is it Carrol I believe?

She goes on and on and on.Mentions Scotland frequently.
She seems to have had some voice coaching of late. She used to talk in great, gulping gasps, like her love eggs had gone into mega-overdrive.

anonymous-user

Original Poster:

60 months

Monday 6th February 2017
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Just had a phone call from relatives in Lancashire.
Hoods had to be put up and windscreen wipers were deployed this afternoon
Stay safe

mybrainhurts

90,809 posts

261 months

Monday 6th February 2017
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techiedave said:
Just had a phone call from relatives in Lancashire.
Hoods had to be put up and windscreen wipers were deployed this afternoon
Stay safe
You're rumbled. You only started this thread as a diversion so no one would spot you scaling the north face of the Abbottopotamus, didn't you, you cunning scoundrel....?

Otispunkmeyer

12,968 posts

161 months

Monday 6th February 2017
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Yertis said:
I've actually given up entirely on weather forecasts. There is so much hyperbole that its become impossible to separate 'what will probably happen' (ie nothing much) from the most extreme possibility, which is what is usually reported. I just take a hat, in case it rains.

Seems to me that all this nonsense started during the Blair years to underpin the assertion that we would see 'more extreme weather events'. Well, I've seen some pretty extreme weather in my life but none of it within the last 35 years.
If you go with tomorrow will likely be much the same as today then you can't go far wrong I don't think. Won't be many days where that catches you out.

MartG

21,166 posts

210 months

Monday 6th February 2017
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mybrainhurts

90,809 posts

261 months

Monday 6th February 2017
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MartG said:
You'd better suck if up and blow it at Ireland, pretty damn' quick. If that reaches Sheffield, I will be mostly pissed off...

voyds9

8,489 posts

289 months

Monday 6th February 2017
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http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/uk-weather-bl...

They've changed their minds (again), it's now 'later in the week'.

anonymous-user

Original Poster:

60 months

Tuesday 7th February 2017
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"Rainbow shaker
On a stallion twister
Bareback rider
On the eye of the sky

Stormbringer coming down
Then it went away
Thunder and lightning
NOT Heading your way

mybrainhurts

90,809 posts

261 months

Tuesday 7th February 2017
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techiedave said:
"Rainbow shaker
On a stallion twister
Bareback rider
On the eye of the sky

Stormbringer coming down
Then it went away
Thunder and lightning
NOT Heading your way
Please stop talking about Diane Abbott, it makes my ears bleed.

Oceanic

731 posts

107 months

Tuesday 7th February 2017
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King Herald said:
They get the same bullst weather reports there, he means? laugh
It's worse here in my opinion, forecasts are highly unreliable and warnings tend be put live when someone at the SMHI looks out of their office window.

anonymous-user

Original Poster:

60 months

Wednesday 8th February 2017
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**** IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT ****

Polar Vortex attack predicted
Snow will fall

Stay safe folks
Stay warm.

Edited by anonymous-user on Wednesday 8th February 23:50

MartG

21,166 posts

210 months

Wednesday 8th February 2017
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Daily Mail raving about it again, so it'll probably never happen wink

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4203516/UK...

mybrainhurts

90,809 posts

261 months

Wednesday 8th February 2017
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Breaking News...

Met Office urges you to sacrifice a goat to ward off threat of Armageddon.

Two, to be absolutely sure.

Johnnytheboy

24,498 posts

192 months

Wednesday 8th February 2017
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MartG said:
Daily Mail raving about it again, so it'll probably never happen wink

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4203516/UK...
First thing I do when I see one of these DM weather stories is go to the BBC weather site and correlate the results. Rarely the same. hehe