What I think a lot of people, especially Americans, fail to understand is that weather moves. Well, living in the UK we are more than aware of the fact that weather moves and myself especially, living on the western coast where most weather systems make their first impact.
So the fact that the National Hurricane Centre believes that Cindy is (to misquote Monty Python) “an ex tropical storm” and therefore no longer deserves their attention is when I sit up and say “Right, Cindy, where are you off to next?”
As things stand at the moment, Cindy is centred on the border between Pennsylvania, Virginia and Maryland and might be just be over Washington DC as well and will move eastwards over the course of today crossing Delaware and New Jersey (and please do not get me started on the song) before going into the Atlantic. From there we go to the Met Office to see where they think she will go and the general answer is pretty much due east, however by Tuesday she has a disagreement with herself and splits into two. One part gets combined with a low pressure system centred around Greenland (and gives that country a bit of a drenching) whilst the other part heads towards the Bay of Biscay with it’s trail of fronts crossing Cornwall.
She hangs around there for bit and then decides to invade sending a belt of heavy rain over the Isle of Wight, Kent and then into the North Sea where she then comes back and dumps a shedload of rain onto the northern Midlands and the north west of Britain before heading into the North Sea and bothering Denmark. So as you can see, yes, you Americans can say goodbye to Cindy, but we Europeans cannot just yet!
And, Harry, that’s why I enjoy your posts so much, because you bring us the continuation of the storms that sweep through our area and continue on. Otherwise, frankly we’d never hear about them. So thank you. Much appreciation for your information.