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Daily Express "Huge Atlantic Storm" - hyperbole or serious?
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The UK faces the WORST hurricane-force winds and torrential rain this winter and possibly for DECADES.
And forecasters warned there will be NO let up in the extreme stormy weather until at least the end of the month.
The entire west coast is braced for colossal 75 foot-plus waves to crash inland this weekend triggering unchecked flooding and widespread destruction.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/nature/458321/Weather-warning-Atlantic-storm-will-smash-into-Britain-and-devastate-southern-coasts
Is this a case of the boy who cried wolf or is it seriously going to be as bad as they claim? The report does seem a tad excessive. But if true it's kinda scary.
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Absolutely.
Any severe weather story is always hyperbole in the Daily Express.
http://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/isobaric/1000hPa/orthographic=1.62,54.81,1818
http://www.yr.no/satellitt/europa_animasjon.html
So, hyperbole I think.
A typhoon at their works would be welcome though.
60mph? A mere breeze.
We had 73mph a couple of nights ago.
Only twice a week, i take it you don't see the other 5 days of "oh woe is us" weather headlines then.
I keep waiting for the back pages to be "football to be destroyed by massive storm" line
Th Express is a joke with this weather thing, way way beyond in fact.
Actual result....a few bins blown over.
Best leave the forecasting to women who phone the BBC.
What a beautiful website!
I don't believe anything I read in a newspaper nowadays. They're a dying industry and are resorting to more and more crap to try and stay afloat for the last few years of their lives.
DID DIANA'S DRIVER HAVE BIRD FLU?
We've already had a wave, recorded by the bouy off Penzance, with a height of just over 74 feet. The flooding around the coast also attestes to the poor weather. There were gusts of wind on Sunday night reaching 92 mph.
So, although there isn't a lot we can do about it, we're preparing for the worst and hoping it isn't as bad as predicted.
There is a deep low going to cross the uk again on Saturday, it will be very windy for some. But it doesn't look as bad as 87, this low will have done most of its deepening before it hits land, in 87 it did it over the land hence why it wasn't forecast well.
It's wrong that he can make up headlines like that...we may laugh it off here but he is scaremongering as some will believe him causing undue worry
Well here's what the Express said last week:
Need I say more?
It will of course be stormy in places, and wet again from tonight for a day or so. Normal Winter stormy, that is, in Southampton for example, the Met Office aren't even forecasting a technical gale at any time (gusts are higher of course). 31 mph maximum mean wind speed (force 6 to 7) and that's 30 feet up, not at ground level.
Coastal cliff tops and 90 foot anemometer masts (yes a few really are that tall!) will obviously be much higher and that's what will be reported... but who lives in those places? Oh, flat dwellers I suppose, I hope they remember to shut their windows.
Its not a 'normal winter storm' though is it - please tell me when the last time we had one of these winters with 78 foot waves and this much flooding and the railway line being washed away which certainly isn't 'normal'?
You can pick a decade if you cant pick a year.
What's different this year is the relentless succession of rainy days, and embedded gale or storm force winds from time to time, which may be up there with the Winter of 1962-3 for unusualness, but in a different way of course.
That does look huge..