European Storms

cowtime · Post by **cowtime** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 6:42 pm

I saw on the news tonight that ya'll across the sea have had a time with the weather. I was just wondering if everyone is ok ?

dubhlinn · Post by **dubhlinn** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 7:47 pm

Been a bit on the windy side for the past few days but nothing serious.

Other parts of the country have other stories to tell but we got away lightly when all is said and done.

Slan,
D.

cowtime · Post by **cowtime** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 8:12 pm

dubhlinn wrote:Been a bit on the windy side for the past few days but nothing serious.

Other parts of the country have other stories to tell but we got away lightly when all is said and done.

Slan,
D.

Good to hear that.

The stuff shown on the news here was pretty scary looking.

dubhlinn · Post by **dubhlinn** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 8:19 pm

Been a few trees down, alas, but apart from that ...

Local wisdom has it that living close to the confluence of two rivers keeps us safe from the vagaries of wind and water.

I don't understand the reasoning behind that but it seems to work.

Slan,
D.

cowtime · Post by **cowtime** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 8:32 pm

One reason I love my mountains is because they shelter us from most of the extremes of weather- far enough away from the ocean to only get a little wind from hurricanes occasionally and far enough away from the flat land that tornadoes are almost unheard of around here. So if your rivers are protecting you that's a good thing, however they do it.

But that stuff on the news tonight? Wow, planes careening through the air attempting to land, huge trees down everywhere, whole buildings collapsing... it had me worried.

dubhlinn · Post by **dubhlinn** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 8:40 pm

cowtime wrote:
But that stuff on the news tonight? Wow, planes careening through the air attempting to land, huge trees down everywhere, whole buildings collapsing... it had me worried.

Indeed..

Weird things are going down on the National news.

The local news reports a bit of traffic chaos because a few trees went down and one guy is dead because his shed fell on him.

Luck of the draw, in many ways...

Tomorrow brings another corner to turn.

Slan,
D.

izzarina · Post by **izzarina** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 10:02 pm

cowtime wrote:But that stuff on the news tonight? Wow, planes careening through the air attempting to land...

I SAW that!!!

It scared the heck out of me. I hate to fly, and when I see that kind of stuff, it just furthers my convictions that if humans were meant to fly, they'd have wings. I may never get overseas now

Glad to hear that you're doing fine Dubh.

Take care with the next round, ok?

djm · Post by **djm** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 10:09 pm

It was more England into Europe that got nailed. France, Germany, Poland Czechoslovakia all reported deaths due to near hurricane force winds - 41 in all. Lots of damage. I guess for people who aren't used to that sort of weather it must have scared the bejezus out of them.

djm

FJohnSharp · Post by **FJohnSharp** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 11:20 pm

I want to know how they get hurricane force wind in places where there aren't warm oceans to feed them.

Also, it says they had it in 1999 too.

harpmaker · Post by **harpmaker** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 1:08 am

FJohnSharp wrote:I want to know how they get hurricane force wind in places where there aren't warm oceans to feed them.

All it takes is a strong high pressure area bumping up against a strong low. The pressure gradiant can result in winds in excess of 75 MPH which is the low end of the hurricane wind speed scale.

There can be storms with those wind speeds just about anywhere on the planet, even on the ice caps.

The highest wind speed recorded, (excepting ones due to torandos) is 231 MPH on Mt Washington NH in April, during a snow storm

Cayden · Post by **Cayden** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 2:20 am

As Dubh said it was windy but it has been windy since early november and this last storm didn't exceed what we've been getting at least once a week since (i.e. 130-150 km/h gusts). Parts of the UK and the continent just aren't used taking that.

Henke · Post by **Henke** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 4:03 am

djm wrote:It was more England into Europe that got nailed. France, Germany, Poland Czechoslovakia all reported deaths due to near hurricane force winds - 41 in all. Lots of damage. I guess for people who aren't used to that sort of weather it must have scared the bejezus out of them.

djm

I think we had 4 deaths in Sweden as well, and lots of people injured and without electricity for weeks out in the country side.

chrisoff · Post by **chrisoff** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 4:51 am

It rained a couple of days ago. Apart from that we've missed the whole thing, been quite a mild week to be honest.

The footage of that plane taking off sideways from Birmingham scared the crap out of me though. Who thought it was a good idea to let planes take off if the cross winds were doing that to them?

claudine · Post by **claudine** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 6:58 am

a few roads were blocked by trees, a few roofs had minor damage, but otherwise no harm here.

izzarina · Post by **izzarina** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 7:47 am

I'm glad to hear the Chrisoff and Claudine have fared well. I was wondering about some of the other European Chiffers. Henke, I'm sorry that things have been a bit more wild for you. Stay safe!