I don't think that there is a separate thread for this one, so I thought that I would just post this here because you will no doubt have read and seen in the media the Met Office has just named this week's weather system which is forecast to bring cold Arctic winds behind it as Storm Caroline which is now, out third named storm of this season. In relation to that, I am going to quote below, a response on the MO thread to a post there where I had predicted that this could be a named storm as a BBC forecast had predicted storm force northerly winds in parts of Scotland from that.
Not if it's only affecting Scotland... If it might get windy in Englandshire, then a named storm is likely
FWIW I'm still hopeful of the Russian/Scandi high making an appearance. Hints have been modeled in FI and if we continue see lower heights in to Europe I believe this is a possibility.
To that, I then replied with my reasons why I believe that where such an event happens in UK has no effect on whether or not, a named storm system should be given this status. As far as I can see, no-one else on these forums had even mentioned the possibility of Storm Caroline being named before I did on that other thread (or course, I don't want to reply directly to that again over there since I don't want to be going off topic there).
Effectively, the person who posted this above reply clearly and effectively rubbished the fact that you can still get a named storm even if the event only effects Scotland and yet, today's announcement of this latest named storm has proved that a storm can indeed, still be named if the effects of that are mainly only in Scotland. In other words, I was proved right in the end and I'm sure that Pdiddy (whoever he is) will now be eating his words with that one. It is just a shame as well, not a single person at TWO who I know of, even latched onto that before I did.
The north of Edinburgh, usually always missing out on snow events which occur not just within the rest of Scotland or the UK, but also within the rest of Edinburgh.