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[Edmond]

I want the next one to be called 'Jeff'

 

[DaGaffer]

Its a bit of wind. I think it might have knocked a fence down somewhere. Serious business.

Yeaaahh...no.

 

[DaGaffer]

"I" is the 9th of the season I think. They only bother naming them if they're over a certain threshold and they think they might be seriously dangerous. It's raising awareness, I don't see the problem.

edit - although obviously I'm not in Blighty so you people probably get bombarded with it a lot more than me accidentally watching the UK weather after the news.

Do they need names in order to warn people about them? Seems to be primarily useful for creating newspaper headlines more than actual information.

 

[Raven]

Yeaaahh...no.
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Was that from last night's bit of wind then?

But this is the point. There seems to be a different (named) storm pretty much every week, when for the most part, they are just a little bit of wind.

People begin to not give a shit.

 

[caLLous]

Do they need names in order to warn people about them? Seems to be primarily useful for creating newspaper headlines more than actual information.

No idea, I suppose it makes them easier to reference. And yes also good for the headline writers.

Was that from last night's bit of wind then?

But this is the point. There seems to be a different (named) storm pretty much every week, when for the most part, they are just a little bit of wind.

Eighty mile per hour gusts are not "a bit of wind". All of the named storms so far have had higher wind speeds recorded. They recorded gusts of 96mph just today in the south.

 

[Raven]

Its actually 40mph.

But OK...

Regardless, its random and it is annoying.

 

[caLLous]

What's actually 40mph? 80mph? FYI, 80 is 40 x 2.

More than 13,000 homes are without power after Storm Imogen brought heavy rain and winds of up to 96mph to parts of southern Britain.

...

Winds of 70-80mph have been recorded in many areas, including 78mph in the Isles of Scilly and 74mph in Mumbles, near Swansea.

I can understand the annoyance at the storms being named but calling it a "bit of wind" is just wrong.

 

[Bodhi]

Apparently naming bits of wind and rain came from the Irish MET Office, which kind of makes sense.

Forecasting the weather in Ireland is the easiest job in the world (it's going to be rainy and miserable) so it gives them something to do I guess.

 

[Raven]

What's actually 40mph? 80mph? FYI, 80 is 40 x 2.

I can understand the annoyance at the storms being named but calling it a "bit of wind" is just wrong.

The minimum requirement is 40mph. As I was (light heartedly) complaining about the concept of naming storms, not this particular storm.

Besides, its random annoying things, the clue is in the thread title.

You really are a tedious little gimp aren't you?

 

[caLLous]

I wasn't talking about the minimum requirement, I was (very obviously) talking about the actual highest recorded speeds (note my cunning use of the past tense in "recorded") and commenting that they had all been >80mph. Anyway, the minimum requirement is "mean wind speeds in excess of 40 mph or gusts over 68 mph".

Well done resorting to cheap insults when you realise you've made yourself look a bit of a tit again, though.

 

[Raven]

mmm. Pot, kettle much?

You are talking about something completely unrelated to my random annoying thing in a desperate attempt to argue with me.

I say, in the light hearted, random annoying things thread that the concept of naming weak storms (as agreed, 40mph, not 80 - no idea where you got that figure from)

You start banging on about 96mph winds

OK then

The tedius little gimp bit was fine though, you are trying to be a pedant in the random annoying things thread, which can surely mean you have nothing better to do in your life?

 

[caLLous]

Apparently naming bits of wind and rain came from the Irish MET Office, which kind of makes sense.

Forecasting the weather in Ireland is the easiest job in the world (it's going to be rainy and miserable) so it gives them something to do I guess.

 

[caLLous]

mmm. Pot, kettle much?

You are talking about something completely unrelated to my random annoying thing in a desperate attempt to argue with me.

OK then.

I'm objecting (as have others) to you playing down these named storms as a "bit of wind".

 

[Raven]

40mph is "a bit of wind"

But again, it is the random annoying things thread, take your dreary pedantry somewhere else.

 

[caLLous]

This is awkward. I don't think you know what words like "mean" and "sustained" mean.

 

[Raven]

Sure I do,

But again, as you are too boring to understand, this is the random annoying things thread. I know an anal retentive like yourself struggles with the concept. But what can you do...

 

[Edmond]

Oh FFS it's blowing a hoolie ok!!!

Jeez

 

[Gwadien]

I thought valentines day was yesterday?

 

[Billargh]

I might have said this already, but...

The fact we suddenly have to start naming bits of wind. What the fuck? I have no idea what bit of wind we are on now.

I was complaining about this at work today. Such an utterly pointless fad.

 

[caLLous]

I say, in the light hearted, random annoying things thread that the concept of naming weak storms (as agreed, 40mph, not 80 - no idea where you got that figure from)

You start banging on about 96mph winds

Sigh, I should've known you would go back and edit your post (as you are wont to do). You were obviously foaming at the mouth too much to get it all typed out the first time.

I "got" the figure of 80mph by introducing it to the conversation myself. You are calling these storms a "bit of wind" and they have all had highest recorded speeds of over 80mph. That was my argument against them being "bits of wind". And, for them to be named, it's a "mean of 40mph or gusts of 68mph". Once again, does the word "mean" confuse you? You're either being deliberately obtuse or you are actually that thick.

I wasn't banging on about anything; I mentioned once that the latest storm had peak speeds of 96mph recorded (you know, bringing relevant data to the conversation), yet again going against your "bit of wind" idiocy. Then you started with infantile name-calling. Go you.

 

[Raven]

Have you been thinking about this all day or something? Do you not have anything better to do? Are you really that dull?

Its a throw away random annoying thing mentioned in the random annoying things thread, not scientific debate. A mean wind speed of 40mph is really not that high and certainly not high enough to bother giving a "bit of wind" a fucking name just so mongs (like you, evidently) have something to tweet about, OMG #stormdesmond we are all going to die!

You are the one getting angry about someone else's opinion, not even an opinion ffs, just a throw away comment in a non-serious thread... I am getting frustrated that you keep following me around like a little lost puppy. Please just put me on ignore, I really can't be arsed to respond to your tedious, desperate ramblings.

Leave it alone. Get a girlfriend, whatever. Just get a fucking life fgs.

 

[caLLous]

Go and stand in a wind tunnel set at 40mph and then come back and tell us it's a "bit of wind". You can't even say that it was a throw away comment because you then said "bit of wind" 3 more times in the following 2 posts.

Just put your hands up and admit when you've said something retarded for fucks sake, it would make you look like much less of a dick.

 

[Tom]

65mph wind:


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHsTn7ketto&feature=youtu.be&t=3m35s

 

[caLLous]

Not having cycled in high winds before, I imagine as soon as you get a little bit broadside of it, you're up the creek.

 

[Gwadien]

Should learn to get gud and man up.

 

[old.user4556]

Windy in the south is it? That's cute.

 

[Tom]

Not having cycled in high winds before, I imagine as soon as you get a little bit broadside of it, you're up the creek.

Imagine trying to run with opened umbrellas fastened to your knees.

 

[Lakih]

I thought most cyclists had an open umbrella up their ass?

 

[caLLous]

Imagine trying to run with opened umbrellas fastened to your knees.

I'm trying but I'm honestly struggling to visualise that...

 

[Lamp]

I'm cooking another chilli at mo

Give me an hour and I'll tell you what real wind is like