Thor, Gail and Jack respectively. Job done. 

Nah. The first one is already taken. It's named after a period of milder conditions that immediately follow a run of sub zero temperatures 

 

If you go back to the start of the thread and read the initial post you will see that Met Eireann named the storm not the Met Office. The convention is that a storm is named only when at least an amber (orange in the case of Ireland) warning is issued.

The Met Office made it very clear in a press release yesterday that they currently have no intention of issuing an amber warning. So from a purely UK perspective this storm would not have been named. It is only because the system works in collaboration with Ireland that we have storm Brian. The winds across Southern Ireland are expected to be much stronger than in the U.K.

I think the met Office and BBC media Department are 2 very different things. Funny how they seem to be regularly confused as one body these days.

 a run of sub zero temperatures 

What's that?

Nothing too drastic at the moment, but the Environment Agency have issued 9 flood alerts for parts of the South Coast and up the Bristol Channel. Storm Brian is expected to coincide with the high spring tide, so this could cause a bit of a tidal surge for these areas:

https://flood-warning-information.service.gov.uk/warnings

A nice spiral to this deep low pressure system at 3 pm 20/10/17 while still off to the west of the UK.

To my untrained eyes, there's little evidence of a sting jet and looks like the cyclogenesis process has been completed and entering a state of occlusion and should very slowly fill in the next 24 hours before finally meeting its fate over the North Sea on Sunday.

Talking about Brian. Mr Gaze really need to fix this method of showing images in threads. I've resized this one at 480 px wide and it still comes out looking squashed.

Nothing too drastic at the moment, but the Environment Agency have issued 9 flood alerts for parts of the South Coast and up the Bristol Channel. Storm Brian is expected to coincide with the high spring tide, so this could cause a bit of a tidal surge for these areas:

https://flood-warning-information.service.gov.uk/warnings

looks quite nasty now actually with potential for major flooding along coastal areas, combined with a very high tidal movement. 

Expect sudden and dramatic warnings in tomorrow’s news bulletins for coatal regions west of Bournemouth.

Nothing too drastic at the moment, but the Environment Agency have issued 9 flood alerts for parts of the South Coast and up the Bristol Channel. Storm Brian is expected to coincide with the high spring tide, so this could cause a bit of a tidal surge for these areas:

https://flood-warning-information.service.gov.uk/warnings

The 200 mm surge (8 inches) predicted for eg the Dartmouth area seems a bit underwhelming, even on top of a spring tide. Winds also will now get up later and the waves may well be a bigger feature but for the moment it's fairly quiet here, less windy  than I would expect with a yellow warning in force.

 

The 200 mm surge (8 inches) predicted for eg the Dartmouth area seems a bit underwhelming, even on top of a spring tide. Winds also will now get up later and the waves may well be a bigger feature but for the moment it's fairly quiet here, less windy  than I would expect with a yellow warning in force.

Indeed. Portsmouth also is just breezy rather than windy. I know the stronger winds are not predicted until later this afternoon but nonetheless, as I mentioned yesterday, Storm Brian is no more than a storm in a tea cup.

Should have named it Brooke Bond 

 

 Storm Brian is no more than a storm in a tea cup.

 

Hopefully! 

Night timelapse of Brian's approach to Irlam

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuMors7IPQM

Impressive stuff Kev. I like the way the clouds 'back' as the system approaches. The overnight light pollution makes the timelapses as impressive as the daytime ones. 

Strongest wind for my area is around 13:00. 48mph wind gusts.....  

Beautiful structure to Storm Brian's rain bands. It's almost like we have an "eye" to the storm!

https://twitter.com/MetEireann/status/921680620698382336

Beautiful structure to Storm Brian's rain bands. It's almost like we have an "eye" to the storm!

https://twitter.com/MetEireann/status/921680620698382336

This is actually an excellent example to use in an explanation of tropical vs non tropical TCs. I'll elaborate.

The centre of the storm does indeed look like an 'eye'. However what we actually have is a quite rare warm seclusion extratropical low. Matured depressions can sometimes develop a warm core which only happens in the deepest ones. Warm air is pinched off and isolated away from the rest of the warm sector. The warm seclusion being surrounded by cold air behaves in many ways like a tropical eye. However one can distinguish them by looking at the phase space diagrams.

The phase space diagram shows the storm has a warm anomaly close to the surface but not at higher levels. In other words the secluded warm core is a shallow feature. An eye of a TC would have a warm core extending all the way up into the upper troposphere. 

I've just read on the BBC Sport website that Stranraer's Scottish League One match at home to Raith Rovers was abandoned because of a waterlogged pitch with Storm Brian being blamed for that. I have seen countless matches being postponed because of waterlogged pitches, but this usually means that the game won't even start as a result of the pitch being deemed as unplayable as a result of an inspection which takes place at some point in time before the match is due to kick off.

On this occasion, Stranraer's home match against Raith Rovers did get underway and so, the pitch would probably have been perfectly playable at that time when the match started. Indeed, there was even a goal scored by each side during the period of time when that match was being played and so, the score was level at 1-1 at the point in time when the match was abandoned. Without knowing what actually happened, this appears to be a case where torrential rain set in as that match was being played. Stranraer is of course, part of SW Scotland which has been getting quite a lot of rain recently and so, it probably wouldn't have taken much for that pitch to become waterlogged.

That indeed, was what probably happened as a result of that torrential rain which was falling with the result that the referee would then have been left with no choice, other than to abandon the game. This shows that whilst Storm Brian has been a complete non-event here in Edinburgh, that obviously hasn't been the case everywhere as the event which I have just described above is just one example of the effects of that in Scotland (no surprise there though, since it is Ireland that has been most badly hit by Storm Brian and of course, Stranraer is closer to Northern Ireland than anywhere else in Scotland).

Very wet this late afternoon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyjkMgUSgu0

It's the 21st of October, Kev, not the 12th!

Pretty bog standard Autumn stuff here in the west of Ireland today. Winds never terribly strong and rain never terribly heavy, but the combination of both at times made for some challenging conditions. 

Been in Burnham on Sea all weekend .... went onto the beach yesterday , never known constant wind like it . I'm so glad I don't live in a coastal area when a big storm hits 

">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyjkMgUSgu0

It's the 21st of October, Kev, not the 12th!

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