And it even knocked “I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here!” off the air
Category: Storm Reports
And here were the Daily Express screaming “Snow chaos”
Yesterday morning the UK Met Office named the low pressure system that had been talked about for a while as a potential snowmaker “Storm Arwen” (a name of Welsh descent meaning “noble maiden” and given to the character of the same name in the “Lord of the Rings” series) and as soon as it was, focus shifted from snow to wind.
Within hours of the storm being named, yellow warnings for wind, rain and snow (low level impacts) for most of Scotland and the west of the United Kingdom, some of these have been upgraded to amber (There is an increased likelihood of impacts from severe weather, which could potentially disrupt your plans) and for the coasts of eastern Scotland as well as the North East of England a red alert (It is very likely that there will be a risk to life) has been issued turning “Oh, its going to snow” into “batten down the hatches, matey, it be a bad one!”
And on the subject of hurricanes
Scotland to take legal action if Typhoon Hagibis forces cancellation
The Rugby World Cup (being hosted by Japan) was awarded to the nation back in 2009. In the time since that decision was made, Japan has seen landfalling hurricanes between September and November on the following occasions:
2009: Melor
2010: Malou, Meranti
2011: Talas, Roke
2012: Jelawat
2013: Toraji, Man-yi, Danas, Wipha
2014: Fung-Wong, Phanfone, Vongfong
2015: Etau
2016: Namtheun, Malou, Malakas, Chaba
2017: Talim, Lan, Saola
2018: Jebi, Trami, Kong-rey
If you are telling me that World Rugby (the organisers) did not have a backup plan for matches being cancelled due to landfalling typhoons then WHAT THE HECK WERE THEY PLAYING AT SINCE 2009???
I think it is high time we had a serious discussion about hurricanes in the UK
Members will know that I have long said that just because a hurricane loses it’s tropical status, the National Hurricane Centre shouldn’t forget about it and given the most recent forecast track by the Centre I think this bears saying again
Yes, your eyes are not deceiving you. That is an official National Hurricane Centre forecast track (published at 9.00am UTC this morning) indicating that at 7.00pm BST tomorrow evening, a minimum category one hurricane will make landfall in the Republic of Ireland (the first time since Hurricane Debbie in 1961). With this forecast track, the various weather media in the United Kingdom are going to have to face facts. Hurricanes, especially in the post climate changed world, will make landfall ANYWHERE and that includes the United Kingdom.
Storm Ali : The Aftermath
Storm Ali officially ended at 3.00am BST this morning when the last of the winds connected to the storm reduced below gale force in the Shetland Islands leaving a vast amount of damage across Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
In Scotland Michael Matheson MSP (SNP, Falkirk West) who is the Scottish Transport Secretary has chaired a meeting of the Scottish Government’s emergency planning team to review the impact of the storm and to co-ordinate the official response with the committee reporting that they expect everything to be back to rights by this morning.
At the height of the storm some 70,000 homes were without power with only 5,000 still without power now (mostly in the Scottish Borders and Dumfries and Galloway council areas), the reason was that a lot of trees were still in full leaf and therefore there was more chance of trees falling (as seen here in Dundee)
There was also travel disruption on the railway network as well as the bus network that saw queues form at Buchanan Street bus station in Glasgow
And even the newly opened Victoria and Albert museum in Dundee had to close its doors due to safety concerns
And even a cruise liner, moored in the Clyde in Greenock, was ripped from its lines. Thankfully no one was on board at the time but as this photo shows anyone on board would have seen a marvellous sight
