Batten down the hatches.....

Wind speed according to the Met Office site

 

Just bumped this.

Don't let the calmness fool you everyone, they're now saying rush hour tomorrow.

 

Apparently st Mary's weather station has seen a 9mb drop over the last 5 hours.

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/sw/st_marys_latest_weather.html

 

Barometer has dropped. Raining with determination now, one or two gusts,
Jenny

 

Its pretty windy here. But not unusually so.

 

Misqouted? How can he say that when its plastered across the internet?

 

Latest advice from the Government '' If your home is in the path of the storm you should move to your second or third home''

 

And protect any duck houses you might have on your moat.

 

Poor Mr Fish though. Is he not a scapegoat? Did he forecast the weather or did he just present the data?

I've long suspected that Michael Fish got a bit of an unfair deal on that one. Here is a video from the BBC that gives a bit more of the picture.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19923565

In you can see in that one that the isobars do look more threatening on the other side of the channel, just as Michael Fish said, so it does look to me like he was working with bad data rather than him personally getting it very wrong.

 

It's mostly guesswork anyway

 

Check out this article on the BBC. The stupidity of some people both infuriates and upsets me sometimes.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-24694139

"I know, there's a massive storm forecast, lets go and stand on the harbour wall, or right at the water line on the beach, or go kite surfing in it, or, worse, lets take a photo of our four year old son playing in the sea spray and foam blowing ashore".

Why can't people just use a bit of common sense and stay away from the sea when there's a storm on. Its not like people can say they didn't realise the risk. Quite apart from common sense telling us that that massive body of water is considerably more powerful than us, there's been days of high profile warnings.

 

And then they expect other people to risk their lives to save them.

 

Just checking in.....its just after 9pm Sunday night here, so its just after 2am Monday for you....hopefully everyone is safe and there is no damage.

 

Penny our clocks were altered this weekend. It's now just after 1am.