Hurricane Katia

[Puggit]

Coming to Scotland, soon!

National Hurricane Centre

[Naga]

If it doesn't perform that left-turn on Sunday then the mainland gets it!

[Puggit]

Of course, by crossing the Atlantic it will start feeding on the cooler waters and start to slow down - but it will still provide miserable weather.

[pat_y]

I watch the NHC website every year during the Hurricane season as we have a very large manufacturing plant in Puerto Rico that gets a battering every now and then.
This year it seems the storm tracks are mostly being directed straight off Philli/New Jersey coast area to us. I have heard a passing comment this is due to the jet stream running at a much lower lattitude this year pushing all the eastern atlantic storms our way. Normally they would dissapate or pass way north of us. Nice.

[Corsair7]

pat_y said:

I watch the NHC website every year during the Hurricane season as we have a very large manufacturing plant in Puerto Rico that gets a battering every now and then.
This year it seems the storm tracks are mostly being directed straight off Philli/New Jersey coast area to us. I have heard a passing comment this is due to the jet stream running at a much lower lattitude this year pushing all the eastern atlantic storms our way. Normally they would dissapate or pass way north of us. Nice.

Agreed, Jet stream is dragging these big boys out into the Atlantic Seaboard. Its also why we are getting such crappy weather.

Is the drought order still in force...?

[Targarama]

Corsair7 said:

Agreed, Jet stream is dragging these big boys out into the Atlantic Seaboard. Its also why we are getting such crappy weather.

Is the drought order still in force...?

So what is causing the Jet Stream to be so active? Do we need to burn some more fossil fuels to fix it?

[Oakey]

From the sounds of last nights winds you'd have thought it was already here.

[V88Dicky]

Targarama said:

So what is causing the Jet Stream to be so active?

Probably something entirely natural.

Or if you are a raving ecomentalist; IT'S MANS FAULT AND WE SHOULD ALL LIVE IN MUDHUTS!

[Hooli]

'ere take that there bluudy wind away I say t'thee.

We're off to Ireland on friday, the ferry should be fun.

[Happy82]

Hooli said:

'ere take that there bluudy wind away I say t'thee.

We're off to Ireland on friday, the ferry should be fun.

Top tip : Don't have a full English breakfast before boarding

Tip 2: Ginger biscuits are apparently good at soothing sea sickness?

[speedchick]

I was just checking the forcast on Metcheck, and either there is something about to hit, or the site is a bit broken, but here in East Lancs, we start with over 200mph winds Saturday night, and they are still going strong by Wednesday next week, funny thing is, the 'feels like' temperature seems to be playing along with it

[anonymous-user]

I think their site may be broken or sat least the data feeding it is garbage! 300MPH winds in sunshine on Wednesday looks some what out!!!!

[Puggit]

Metcheck have always had this little glitch...

[BoRED S2upid]

So it will be wet misserable and windy pretty much like this week then. YAWN.

[Daz68]

BoRED S2upid said:

So it will be wet misserable and windy pretty much like this week then. YAWN.

I agree. Nothing severe coming up. Scotland gets hammered by gales every year.

[Targarama]

Well Katia seems to be adjusting trajectory to the South. Hmm...

[anonymous-user]

Targarama said:

Well Katia seems to be adjusting trajectory to the South. Hmm...

All we need now is some silly women to phone the BBC.........

[Puggit]

Targarama said:

Well Katia seems to be adjusting trajectory to the South. Hmm...

But they are still predicting it to veer off to Scotland at the last minute:

[Puggit]

Funny how the MetOffice haven't released a weather warning yet. It's not going to be anything that Scotland doesn't receive on a regular basis, but it's going to be wet, windy and miserable!

[OzzyR1]

Netweather has Orkney as being a bit blowy on Monday but nothing too out of the ordinary for up there I would have thought.

http://www.netweather.tv/index.cgi?action=uk7dayx7... 3JE;sess=#forecast