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[Sussex] Storm Ciaran on its way or here?
- Thread starter jakarta
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Muzzman
Pocket Rocket
Apparently, giving a storm a name means it's respected more by the general public, so we decide against doing stupid shit like fixing a TV aerial during inclement weather.
He’s VERY disappointed
BN41Albion
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- Oct 1, 2017
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Yep - weird amount of people on here who seem to be disappointed there isn't this amount of damage. And it's clearly not the media hyping things up either as the devastation elsewhere shows - we have just been lucky(or not, in some folks eyes it seems) to have missed the worst of it
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That said, he avoided the inevitable 6am police raid...
If only he'd stayed indoors.
oldboyroy
Well-known member
Been raining all day here and a gentle breeze has just started. Its about all we get in birmingham
On BBC news correspondent in Hastings just said a lot of weather has come through. FFS 
Before people start poo-pooing the 1987 comparisons, let’s get one thing clear. This was a very near miss. This storm tracked slightly further south than expected, had it tracked 10-20 miles further north we’d have been looking at 1987 2.0 without question.
KZNSeagull
Well-known member
Just seen Jersey on the news, looks very bad. We had a couple of short but vicious storms when we lived in South Africa and I would not wish them on anyone. Keep safe and don't be silly.
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I was disappointed to discover he didn't actually live in a pink windmill, just a modest cottage near Rye.
And although he didn't cohabit with Grotbags, my hunch is the property was [potentially] full of grot mags.
Storms are named by the Met Office and other linked institutions (Irish, French counterparts etc.). Not by the media.
Might be an idea to understand what you’re ranting about before accusing others of being a “dimlow”?
schmunk
Well-used member
It was first done over 100 years ago by Clement Wragge, as any fule kno.
Clement Lindley Wragge - Wikipedia
He used to drink in The Queen’s Head in Icklesham, always appeared a nice chap.
GOM
living vicariously
It wasn't the BBC or any other media outlet that started giving them names, it was the Met Office and BBC simply reported using the given names. The weather presenters used to be Met office employees. Met as in meteorological, not metropolitan.
'The Met Office decided to start giving storms names back in 2014, in the same way they do in America. The first windstorm to be named was Abigail on 10 November 2015. The Met Office hoped that naming big storms will make people more aware of them and how dangerous they can be'.
Try telling that to people in the Channel Islands - easily the worst since 1987 for them. We were just lucky here in Sussex and along much of the south coast that it tracked just a bit further south than expected - but it was very marginal.
Bizarre November weather
Horses Arse
Well-known member
Each and every time I'm doing something bloody stupid I think of Rod and his aerial fixing, Doesn't stop me doing it, but does make me think of the consequences.
If only he'd stayed indoors.
It also allows the number per year or season to be quantified as they have to meet a criteria and are then named in sequence with names beginning 'A', 'B', 'C' and so on, so if the last one in a given time period is called 'Eric' you know you've had five that met the severity. A nice side effect is it gives insurers and reinsurers some structured data to work with when assessing the impact of their storm claims (these people are currently doing a LOT of work regarding climate change and natural catastrophes).