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Abigail.
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How bad is this first named winter gale wherr you are? Are you being battered?
If you are does it make you feel differently about a winter storm that has a name? I can't come to terms, as yet with, Storm Abigail or Gale Kate (the next one apparently). Somehow they don't sound right, unlike Hurricane Michelle or Typhoon Anna.
I am not convinced of the wisdom of choosing a name each time we get a windy day. We are a small isle in the middle of four weather systems and we have frequent nasty weather but for the events we get it seems a bit weyt ( no pun intended) to name every breath of wind. Plus our weather can turn on a sixpence and Storm Jane turns into rather wet and windy Jane by the time 'she' arrives.
But then I don't live in the Western Isles or a particualrly windy past of the UK. Maybe if I did I would thik it only tight and proper that our storms get names just like Pacific and Atlantic weather systems.
If you are does it make you feel differently about a winter storm that has a name? I can't come to terms, as yet with, Storm Abigail or Gale Kate (the next one apparently). Somehow they don't sound right, unlike Hurricane Michelle or Typhoon Anna.
I am not convinced of the wisdom of choosing a name each time we get a windy day. We are a small isle in the middle of four weather systems and we have frequent nasty weather but for the events we get it seems a bit weyt ( no pun intended) to name every breath of wind. Plus our weather can turn on a sixpence and Storm Jane turns into rather wet and windy Jane by the time 'she' arrives.
But then I don't live in the Western Isles or a particualrly windy past of the UK. Maybe if I did I would thik it only tight and proper that our storms get names just like Pacific and Atlantic weather systems.
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The name thing is a bit pointless when does one become another exactly? Does it change name at midnight? Or when it's dropped below a certain level of windyness?
It's constant crappy weather here so we'd need a new name every day.
Goodnight.
Weather worthy of a name do you think? Or just an aspect of a common or garden British winter?
Just a normal sort of day round these parts pretty much as it was all summer really
My feeling precisely. But I wondered if I am a bit complacent tucked away here in the middle of the country. Perhasp those that feel the brunt of these storms feel we trivialise their plight and these events shoudl get named just like those in the Caribbean etc.
Thats sort of it isn't it. Future weather systems could be best described as Blustery Bertha, Windy Wendy and Gusty Gertie.
Well here it's more unusual for it not to be blowing a gale and pouring with rain. When the storm wiped out new york a while back, i remember being surprised the wind speeds were about 50-60 mph when we regularly get 80mph and it doesn't make the news because it isn't The South.
Just watch out for Monsoon Moose. It'll wreak utter havoc.
You may have peeked too soon.
Only to cake shops.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGCODdJWRYU
Wouldn't the next one be a name starting with a "B"?
It's been raining constantly here for about 3 days so the only real difference is that the rain was going a bit sideways instead of straight down.
What was a bit strange was that the rain stopped earlier but the wind kept blowing and it's dried up most of the wet ground straight away so the pavements and grassed areas all look perfectly dry but there are still rivers of floodwater running along the sides of the road etc.
Apparently not. Kate is already on her way according to Accuweather
http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/kate-abigail-wind-united-kingdom-ireland/53564947
Odd.
Maybe there have already been storms in other parts of the world that have used the intervening letters?
Who said it was sexist?
It wasn't anything like what the media was making it out to be though. Not here anyway.
Thankfully not.
its pretty stupid...
So you got the brunt of this one it would seem.
That makes a certain sense I suppose. It sounds like the naming is a device to assist the media more than serving any meteological purpose or of being helpful to the public at large.