80 mph winds for the UK.

 

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Storm Isha is set to batter “everybody” in the UK with wind and rain during a “rare” weather cycle, forecasters say. Winds of up to 80mph will swoop in later on Sunday, potentially causing power cuts and loss of mobile phone signal, while roads and bridges are likely to be shut and transport services could face delays and cancellations in some areas. Nearly four inches of rain could fall over a few hours in some regions and cause localised flooding, with eight flood warnings already in place across England. Met Office forecaster Ellie Glaisyer told the PA news agency: “The main thing about this storm is it is very widespread across the whole of the UK. “Quite often we see storms affecting the north west or the southern half of the UK, whereas this one, later on Sunday and into Monday, the whole of the UK is covered by a warning, which is relatively rare.

 

 

1. The Great Storm, 1703 - 110mph winds, 1,500 people killed

2. Night of the Big Wind, 1839 - 150mph winds, 250-300 people killed

3. North Sea Flood, 1953 - huge storm caused sea surge, 300 people killed, 24,000 homes destroyed

4. The Great Storm #2, 1987 - extratropical cyclone, 120mph winds, 22 people killed in UK and France, thousands without power

5. Burn's Day Storm, 1990 - strongest European windstorm on record, 75mph winds, large area of Europe affected, 47 deaths in UK

Dave

I don't undersnd your reply, Dave. Everybody knows we've had worse storms. This is just "relatively" rare to impact the entire UK.

32 minutes ago, martin-w said:

I don't undersnd your reply, Dave. Everybody knows we've had worse storms. This is just "relatively" rare to impact the entire UK.

Not necessarily a reply to you personally, but just a "counter" to the typical hyping of severe weather we've seen for years now.

The UK Met office is notorious for exaggerating this stuff, as well as pretty much all the weather agencies and media in the USA.

Stay safe.

Dave

Edited January 21, 20242 yr by dave2013

52 minutes ago, dave2013 said:

Not necessarily a reply to you personally, but just a "counter" to the typical hyping of severe weather we've seen for years now.

The arrival of the internet is the reason for that. Every major weather event is hyped in a way it wasn’t 50 years ago.

Well, the report did say "relatively" rare and indeed, it is less common, in terms of impacting the entire UK.

"Hype" applies to many things in the news these days. Stuff gets propagated around the world, courtesy of the Internet, in a flash and a multitude of media entities hype it like crazy to attract clicks.

Nothing wrong with this particular report though, no exaggeration..... yet.

And I've not seen any exaggeration from the Met Office, they usually do their best to provide the facts regarding weather. Has to be remembered that short term weather is dynamic and hard to predict, I think often that's the issue rather than hype, worst case scenarios as possibilities explored.

Edited January 21, 20242 yr by martin-w

1 hour ago, dave2013 said:

Stay safe

 

I'm not in the UK and a lot further South, so just a bit windy here.

I see the storm names for 2024 are:

Agnes, Babet, Ciaran, Debi, Elin, Fergus, Gerrit, Henk, Isha, Jocelyn, Kathleen, Lilian, Minnie, Nicholas, Olga, Piet, Regina, Stuart, Tamiko, Vincent and Walid

So, it's still January and you are on your ninth storm. What happens if you run out of names?  For hurricanes, the World Meteorological Organization tried switching to the Greek alphabet but, apparently, that caused some confusion so they switched to a supplementary list of names.

My anemometer registered a maximum gust of 41mph yesterday afternoon. Non event here in east Cheshire. It would have been worse on the Irish Sea coast and places like Blackpool would have had much stronger winds.

http://www.cheadlehulmeweather.co.uk/thismonthyear.htm

We saw some pretty strong gusts in Guernsey. 60mph, not huge but they did batter my windows. A French Navy ship that was visiting had to cancel the visit. 

Edited January 22, 20242 yr by martin-w

On 1/21/2024 at 5:50 PM, dave2013 said:

Not necessarily a reply to you personally, but just a "counter" to the typical hyping of severe weather we've seen for years now.

The UK Met office is notorious for exaggerating this stuff, as well as pretty much all the weather agencies and media in the USA.

Stay safe.

Dave

when it hits 40 for a whole 2 days in the summer, they like to hype it up a bit as if its armageddon