It was a wash out last year, a wash out over Christmas and New Year, and a rubbish start to this year. Surely it can't get any worse and this year has to be drier ? Latest storm causing havoc across the country with dangerous seas ,flooding and trees down. However one news item with graphic photos about today made me realise that we have nothing to moan about compared to the horror suffered by those brave Londoners. Who said the spirit of the blitz was dead ?

Don’t worry. This rain stops later this week. Then coming colder. Some saying beast from the East on its way

Who gives these storms names How many Gerrits and Henks do you know

Mind you cant wait as only 2 more then its storm Kathleen (Mrs BC is a Kathleen so will have great fun blaming her)

From the BBC

The UK Met Office and Irish service Met Éireann launched their first "Name our Storms" campaign in 2015.

Most years, they draw the names from a shortlist of favourites submitted by the public. And since 2019, they have been joined by the national weather service of the Netherlands which also chips in a few suggested names each year.

For the 2023-24 season, the Met Office has slightly changed its methods and has named a number of storms after prominent scientists, meteorologists and, in its words, others "who work to keep people safe in times of severe weather".

Think we need to get used to milder, wetter winters. Apart from that week at start of December we've barely had a frost yet.

Just wait until the water companies tell us the reservoirs are low in April.

Bordeauxclaret wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 02, 2024 5:18 pm

From the BBC

The UK Met Office and Irish service Met Éireann launched their first "Name our Storms" campaign in 2015.

Most years, they draw the names from a shortlist of favourites submitted by the public. And since 2019, they have been joined by the national weather service of the Netherlands which also chips in a few suggested names each year.

For the 2023-24 season, the Met Office has slightly changed its methods and has named a number of storms after prominent scientists, meteorologists and, in its words, others "who work to keep people safe in times of severe weather".

I'm surprised we haven't had Storm Stormy McStormface yet.

Storm Vincent in November.

Bosscat wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 02, 2024 5:13 pm

Who gives these storms names How many Gerrits and Henks do you know

Mind you cant wait as only 2 more then its storm Kathleen (Mrs BC is a Kathleen so will have great fun blaming her)

It's Storm Henk, Gerrit?

Worcester Cricket Ground and Worcester Racecourse used to get flooded every year in the seventies. I don't know if it's less rain or better flood protection that makes it a more occasional winter treat now. (They're by the same river, River Severn, so it's both or neither get flooded.)

Friends of mine had a caravan in Eckington, Worcestershire (by the Avon) and that used to get flooded every year as well. Then in the nineties and noughties the floods didn't happen, and everyone converted their tin boxes to posh caravans with electricity and running water. Then the floods started again and they had to move the site up the hill to a higher field.

I prefer a more mathematical method - storm 2024-1, 2024-2 etc.. Or you could extend it to a whole date when it first hits the UK or is discovered - storm 2024-1-2 or whatever.

Or some number plate method with a letter for the year and another letter for the storm.

I'm full of good ideas.

Bosscat wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 02, 2024 5:13 pm

Who gives these storms names How many Gerrits and Henks do you know

Mind you cant wait as only 2 more then its storm Kathleen (Mrs BC is a Kathleen so will have great fun blaming her)

Can only think of henk voss who played up front for nac breda when I used to watch them.

I don't know any Gerrits. As long as Kathleen doesn't immediately precede a return of storm liztruss we'll be fine.

Why can't they call one storm fuckedthedayup ? I'm sick and tired of all these namby pamby names.

Bosscat wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 02, 2024 5:13 pm

Who gives these storms names How many Gerrits and Henks do you know

Mind you cant wait as only 2 more then its storm Kathleen (Mrs BC is a Kathleen so will have great fun blaming her)

I work with a bloke called Henk, but I don't think it's his fault!

AmbleClaret wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 02, 2024 5:36 pm

Just wait until the water companies tell us the reservoirs are low in April.

Apparently no new reservoirs have been built in England since 1989, was that when the water companies were privatised?

bfcjg wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 02, 2024 7:23 pm

Why can't they call one storm fuckedthedayup ? I'm sick and tired of all these namby pamby names.

Im the same, I think this storm Henk business has probably ruined 2024 for me already im so annoyed. I mentioned it at work and was laughed at for getting so bothered about something as inconsequential as a storm name, idiots.

Devils_Advocate wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 02, 2024 7:51 pm

Im the same, I think this storm Henk business has probably ruined 2024 for me already im so annoyed. I mentioned it at work and was laughed at for getting so bothered about something as inconsequential as a storm name, idiots.

Are you sure that's the real reason & not something else.

Devils_Advocate wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 02, 2024 7:51 pm

Im the same, I think this storm Henk business has probably ruined 2024 for me already im so annoyed. I mentioned it at work and was laughed at for getting so bothered about something as inconsequential as a storm name, idiots.

Someone laughing at something you said?
There’s a first time for everything I guess

Drove home from Cowden, East Yorkshire on Tuesday and the farmland being so flat over there was quickly turning into lakes, and all the way on the m62 up to the Leeds area was bad, was only when we came into more hilly territory it got better.

I was in Tewkesbury a few days ago, there's more water than land.

Confluence of the Avon and Severn.

Bosscat wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 02, 2024 5:13 pm

Who gives these storms names How many Gerrits and Henks do you know

Mind you cant wait as only 2 more then its storm Kathleen (Mrs BC is a Kathleen so will have great fun blaming her)

Be careful what you say Bosscat, they'll only be one winner.

beddie wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 04, 2024 11:31 am

Be careful what you say Bosscat, they'll only be one winner.

didn't know you knew Mrs BC Beddie

I have found the answer to a happy harmonious marriage its two little words "Yes Dear"

dougcollins wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 04, 2024 10:57 am

I was in Tewkesbury a few days ago, there's more water than land.

Confluence of the Avon and Severn.

If you see the usual picture of Tewkesbury Abbey, standing on a little island surrounded by floods, it almost makes you think our ancestors knew what they were doing and where to build!

I am waiting for Stormy Daniels!

They used my name a few years ago and I made a right mess of America

IanMcL wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 04, 2024 12:26 pm

I am waiting for Stormy Daniels!

Didn't have you down as someone who would follow Trump

they'll still be telling us theres a water shortage and resevoirs empty by easter

That poor guy with the umbrella being blown inside out must have been utterly terrified. My heart goes out to him

FCBurnley wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 04, 2024 2:49 pm

That poor guy with the umbrella being blown inside out must have been utterly terrified. My heart goes out to him

The man pictured is from North Korea and he is not holding an umbrella but a portable satellite receiver dish