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Chunky Pea
04 December 2018 05:44:30

FARCE!!!!!!

Originally Posted by: KevBrads1 

And they have issued a 'purple wind' warning too. 

 

 

Patrick,

East Galway, Ireland.

Rob K
04 December 2018 17:28:06

So the Portuguese have named it because it travelled slightly close to the Azores? Now the UK (which will be affected much more severely I would imagine) will be stuck with the name solely because the Met Office daren't rename a system that's already been named by another Met agency? This system is a joke.

I've said repeatedly, either rename storms according to the UK listing, or develop a Europe-wide naming scheme!

Originally Posted by: Bolty 

I don't understand why the hell we need names anyway. We're not the hurricane belt. What possible advantage does it give naming a storm (or a hurricane for that matter!)?

Yateley, NE Hampshire, 73m asl

"But who wants to be foretold the weather? It is bad enough when it comes, without our having the misery of knowing about it beforehand." — Jerome K. Jerome

Bolty
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04 December 2018 17:53:51

 

I don't understand why the hell we need names anyway. We're not the hurricane belt. What possible advantage does it give naming a storm (or a hurricane for that matter!)?

Originally Posted by: Rob K 

It was designed to help inform and prepare the public about stormy weather. As I said, it is a good idea on paper but the way they have gone about it is just a total mess.

Scott

Blackrod, Lancashire (4 miles south of Chorley) at 156m asl.

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Rob K
04 December 2018 18:04:43

 

It was designed to help inform and prepare the public about stormy weather. As I said, it is a good idea on paper but the way they have gone about it is just a total mess.

Originally Posted by: Bolty 

But that's my point. How does it help people? Tell them it's going to be windy, with winds of Force 7, force 8 or whatever. That's useful. Knowing whether it's called Alice or Bob, or whether Portugal called it one thing and Ireland called it something else adds precisely zero of any value. If you're being blown out to sea in a capsized boat, or your roof is halfway to France, who cares what the storm is called?

Yateley, NE Hampshire, 73m asl

"But who wants to be foretold the weather? It is bad enough when it comes, without our having the misery of knowing about it beforehand." — Jerome K. Jerome

Chunky Pea
04 December 2018 19:07:32

 

But that's my point. How does it help people? Tell them it's going to be windy, with winds of Force 7, force 8 or whatever. That's useful. Knowing whether it's called Alice or Bob, or whether Portugal called it one thing and Ireland called it something else adds precisely zero of any value. If you're being blown out to sea in a capsized boat, or your roof is halfway to France, who cares what the storm is called?

Originally Posted by: Rob K 

I think if there is to be a naming/warning system across European countries that are prone to Atlantic storms, then it should have a unified criteria. I also think we should leave the naming of the storms to the Iberians, as they tend to pick far more poetic and striking names. 'Beryl', 'Barney' 'Rebecca' and 'Peggy', for example, are just ridiculous sounding to be honest. One couldn't take these storms seriously. 

Patrick,

East Galway, Ireland.

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