NSC Hurricane watch

[Gazwag]

For those that are interested this is Ivan, the latest big bugger to hit the Carribean

Its heading for Jamaica, the smaller island in the top left hand corner

 

[Wozza]

*looks out window*

All clear in Clerkenwell.

 

[CHAPPERS]

145mph winds.

 

[Bluejuice]

This is really bad news. I have friends in Jamaica and they're worried sick.

The worst part is that if they flee to a safer part of the island than Kingston they risk their homes being almost certainly looted as well as potentially destroyed.

I know our wet August was a bit shit but we really have got to be grateful when something like this puts it into perspective.

In fact we're incredibly lucky. Not only are we safe from tropical storms but we've no volcanoes, seismic faults or twisters to worry about.

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

I was in miami for a few hours and our flight was one of the first ones back into the air port and connecting one of the first out we were lucky

 

[ditchy]

This is really bad news. I have friends in Jamaica and they're worried sick.

The worst part is that if they flee to a safer part of the island than Kingston they risk their homes being almost certainly looted as well as potentially destroyed.

I know our wet August was a bit shit but we really have got to be grateful when something like this puts it into perspective.

In fact we're incredibly lucky. Not only are we safe from tropical storms but we've no volcanoes, seismic faults or twisters to worry about.

we dont get tropical storms yet .. but in a few years who knows !!

 

[Easy 10]

** POINTLESS QUESTION ALERT **

So is that storm spinning clockwise or anti-clockwise ?
I guess this would be dictated by the direction the Earth spins on its axis, or something.

First one who can provide me with a convincing argument one way or the other will win a slightly bent paperclip which I sucked on yesterday.

 

[CHAPPERS]

I imagine it spins TOWARDS land.

 

[Easy 10]

Yes, yes, but which way is the storm itself spinning, within itself. Is it drawing into the eye, or spitting out ?

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

When I was in Runaway Bay on the North Coast of Jamaica a couple of years back, there was still the wreckage of an entire hotel flattened by the last major hurricane. Looked like a bomb had hit it. The houses in the village are flimsy to say the least. The big ones are timber-framed, the less big ones just breeze-blocks and corrugated iron roofs. In the countryside it's shacks. They'll be flattened.

Hoping for the best but fearing the worst.

 

[Safeway]

Do hurricanes ever turn over on their SIDE? I imagine that would be pretty mad.

 

[CHAPPERS]

Yes, yes, but which way is the storm itself spinning, within itself. Is it drawing into the eye, or spitting out ?

Errrrmmmm....











TOWARDS land.

 

[Easy 10]

 

[Safeway]

Looked like a bomb had hit it.

Now you see, that's a saying I've never quite understood.

Bombs don't tend to hits things, preferring instead to go off inside things. Therefore, how can the damage from a hurricane be comparable to that caused by a bomb?

 

[The Wookiee]

** POINTLESS QUESTION ALERT **

So is that storm spinning clockwise or anti-clockwise ?
I guess this would be dictated by the direction the Earth spins on its axis, or something.

First one who can provide me with a convincing argument one way or the other will win a slightly bent paperclip which I sucked on yesterday.

Ask here

http://www.ukweatherworld.co.uk/forum/forum-view.asp?forumid=4

These boffins should be able to answer your question!!!

 

[lost in london]

It looks like anticlockwise to me.

Good kite flying weather.

 

[Easy 10]

Bombs don't tend to hits things, preferring instead to go off inside things.

Much like myself then.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Now you see, that's a saying I've never quite understood.

Bombs don't tend to hits things, preferring instead to go off inside things. Therefore, how can the damage from a hurricane be comparable to that caused by a bomb?

Hmmm.. can I get back to you on that one. I'll have MY people call YOUR people

 

[brighton rock]

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[On the Left Wing]

In fact we're incredibly lucky. Not only are we safe from tropical storms but we've no volcanoes, seismic faults or twisters to worry about.

But we do have Croydon