some brit weather global warming not withstanding and it’s darn cold here in the south

 

1. Any idea what the sustained winds were? I’ve seen several reports of gusting over 100mph, over 130mph, and several reports of 165mph at a couple of specific mountainous areas. Sustained, that kind of wind speed is well into Category 5 territory, which means pretty much complete devastation. But from the pictures it doesn’t look any worse than a more common Cat 1 or Cat 2 storm ... which is bad enough. Trucks tipped over in the street, not tipped over and then blown 400 yards across the fields.

   I pulled up several additional articles on the storm, and so many of them had pictures of the local folks going down to the cliff’s edge to look at the big waves. That’s brain power, that is. It’s a hurricane ya yoik!

   ( Actually it was only half a hurricane. If you look at the cloud radar here you’ll see that they never got any full cyclonic action going, but did manage almost a full loop at one point. )

   Chin up old chum; I hear the other half of the storm is due to hit Tuesday!

   Posted by Drew458       12/09/2011  at  06:09 PM  



2. Radio and papers said gale force. We do get high winds here, frigid ones at that. But nothing close to what they get up north.
   At last, the old rebel gets to live in the correct part of a country. lol. Well, sort of.
   I think we’re south east. It’s the first one that counts though.

   Posted by peiper       12/10/2011  at  04:38 AM  



3. Somebody needs to oil those things once in awhile.

   Posted by grayjohn       12/10/2011  at  01:07 PM  



4. It’s Bush’s fault.

   Posted by MAJ Mike       12/10/2011  at  05:36 PM  

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