Back to the article"Michael Fish"er #
Posted Wednesday 21st January 2009 13:57 GMT
"Earlier on today apparently a lady rang the BBC and said she heard that there was a hurricane on the way. Well don't worry if you're watching, there isn't."
Suffolk braces for 300mph winds
MetOffice is better #
Posted Wednesday 21st January 2009 13:57 GMT
Maybe Michael Fish works for Metcheck now.
El Reg! #
Posted Wednesday 21st January 2009 13:57 GMT
That fun bag link is NSFW and should be tagged as such!
Kite flying.... #
Posted Wednesday 21st January 2009 13:57 GMT
or kite surfing.....hmmmm decsions, decisions.
Well done #
Posted Wednesday 21st January 2009 13:57 GMT
An error found. On a website.
Oh look. Its all fixed now.
Yay!
Same here #
Posted Wednesday 21st January 2009 13:57 GMT
As of Tuesday afternoon it was saying the same thing for here in Telford too, 300 - 400 mph winds for the next seven days. Except for between midnight and 3AM next Monday morning when they briefly drop to about 8mph.
Must be quite localised #
Posted Wednesday 21st January 2009 15:06 GMT
Just come back from taking the dog out for a walk, a bit chilly but bright and sunny and not too much of a breeze.
The only Tornados I've seen today is a couple of GR4's flying too low for comfort, belting past at an alarming rate of knots on their way back to Marham.
same ass #
Posted Wednesday 21st January 2009 15:06 GMT
Same as thoughs 5billion £ gas bills - lousy programming / coding
Pah #
Posted Wednesday 21st January 2009 15:06 GMT
Us Norfolk types can cope with a little rough weather. Though I will make sure that it is safe and warm indoors for my wife and sister. She does feel the cold after all.
Tim#3
lets go fly a kite !! #
Posted Wednesday 21st January 2009 15:06 GMT
Well i hope for FFS its not going to effect the cost cause im driving down the coast to devon in a 2CV
Last time that happened it almost ripped my friggin roof off and i almost soiled the seats as i flew across 2 lanes !!
Turkies #
Posted Wednesday 21st January 2009 15:06 GMT
Iff all the Turkies in Norfolk flapped thier wings at the same time..........
@oliver mays #
Posted Wednesday 21st January 2009 15:08 GMT
Midnight til 3am is the eye of the storm.
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drag factor? #
Posted Wednesday 21st January 2009 16:26 GMT
I'm sure webbed fingers and toes are great for swimming, but they're a bugger when you're trying to reduce your wind co-efficient.
Seems to be a recurring theme #
Posted Wednesday 21st January 2009 16:26 GMT
This happened for East Lothian addresses over the new year as well - they had me all set for the Apocalypse, but it didn't seem to come to much...
bah #
Posted Wednesday 21st January 2009 16:28 GMT
at least the cows will be safe, probably won't feel it after all. but i feel the need for £2m to investigate anyway..
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/14/cow_earthquake_shocker/
@ Tim #
Posted Wednesday 21st January 2009 22:26 GMT
By Tim Posted Wednesday 21st January 2009 14:04 GMT
Us Norfolk types can cope with a little rough weather. Though I will make sure that it is safe and warm indoors for my wife and sister. She does feel the cold after all.
So let me get this right....
You married your Sister?
And I thought West Cornwall folk were wierd!
just cold, wet and windy here, brrrrrrrr
Blackheath too #
Posted Wednesday 21st January 2009 22:26 GMT
I'm a keen kite landboarder so I check this site all the time - we were looking at 349mph on Friday morning....
Google humour? #
Posted Wednesday 21st January 2009 22:26 GMT
Those ads by Google deserve a second look. A golf break for the skeptical, or secure storage (which might survive rather better than the average house) for the gullible. Well spotted, Googlebot-AIs.
eh up #
Posted Wednesday 21st January 2009 22:26 GMT
@Tim#3 "Us Norfolk types can cope with a little rough weather. Though I will make sure that it is safe and warm indoors for my wife and sister. She does feel the cold after all"
Might be the way i read your comment but the last person i talked to who's wife and sister were one and the same came from across the pond, didn't know things were that bad in the south :)
Re: Huricane #
Posted Wednesday 21st January 2009 22:35 GMT
Well, it wasn't.
*Technically* it was high winds.
NOTE: The model (from what I heard from friends who work there), got it right, but such weather models are run several times with slight changes to see what may happen if the numbers are off.
One result had it moving north and hitting the UK and another result had it continuing onward and giving france the pasting it so richly deserves.
That one was picked (with a lot of justification, the track was already going that way), and the model output saying it would hit the UK was deemed unlikely and thrown away.
must be... #
Posted Wednesday 21st January 2009 22:35 GMT
Hmm... near absolute zero temperatures... must be global warming...
Pathetic #
Posted Thursday 22nd January 2009 10:47 GMT
"That fun bag link is NSFW and should be tagged as such!"
What kind of shitty worthless job is that?
Hardly on the same par... #
Posted Sunday 25th January 2009 15:16 GMT
As when the BBC broadcast similar winds on their maps, and described 20 cms of snow as almost an inch:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=IdLUkvkBVrw
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