Whats your weather right now?

Hi Raymondo,
storms are given first names starting each year with an A. They used to be exclusively female names (ie Hurricane Hannah)
but in these PC days they alternate male/female so the next storm will be Storm Ellen. or perhaps Storm Eileen.
Presumably the year's starter storm's name gender alternates so that next year's 4th storm will be Storm Denise.
 
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Some storms are Gender Neutral like "Big Bastard" or "Shit Happens". But storm Dennis, a boy storm, dumped over 100mm of rain in South Wales. The stream near my house only rose a little but the main river in town, River Taff, was the highest I've seen it in 32 Years. Overflowed the banks near the centre of town (Cardiff) and flooded the huge park area:
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/storm-dennis-flooding-cardiff-drone-17758203
The footage was taken later in the day after the water level had dropped at least 1 metre. At 8am the bridge with the water flowing over a weir could not be reached.

The good news is the flooding was confined to the park land so no properties were damaged. But 4 miles up the valley from my house approx. 100 properties were flooded. The big problem now is if another storm arrives during the week and drops heavy rain on the waterlogged hills inland.

The BBC had an interesting weather warning:
BBC Warning.jpg


I live 10 miles south of Pontypridd so now see why it was pissing down so much...

... I wonder what the warning would have looked like if the storm were an Ellen?
 
I wonder what the warning would have looked like if the storm were an Ellen?

...hhhmmmm....good question Paul. I’m not sure that I can answer it definitively, but If it were named “Ellen”, I’d guess that you’d be screwed.
 
Thanks Fred - I know they use male and female names now, but I seem to recall they used to choose, uhm, ordinary names like Betty.

But I'm here now to say that since I put those pictures of the Tweed in flood, have seen news reports of the serious flooding in many part of Great Britain. I haven't faced any inconvenience apart from having my walk curtailed. But thousands of people have had to leave flooded homes. Some of them have been flooded more than once in the last few years. My thoughts are with those people as they face having everything they own completely ruined, years of rebuilding and in many cases they won't even be able to buy flood insurance in the future.

Extreme weather is becoming the new normal.
 
Nice blob of rain you have overhead Mailman. Was just looking at it on radar. Headed my way in a couple of days. In the meanwhile 60 today and 70's til Tuesday. Gonna ride the ring ding today at some point.
 
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Today? Gales and blizzards. Can't even get a decent photo.

geeezzzz - rainy blizzards in Scotland, drizzle in Wales, rain in Phoenix, cloudy sub-80 degree temps in Tucson....we may have to surrender our title as the world’s leading experts in sh!tty weather!
 
It has indeed been a mild winter with very very little snow here. I only shovelled once and that was because Mrs. MaxPete was having friends over from her Scottish dance group and a couple of the ladies were quite elderly and I didn’t want anyone slipping and falling. Otherwise, there wasn’t really enough snow to bother with and in any event, it usually melted away within 24-48 hours.

The real issue this year has been the relentless cloudy weather. Today is one of the first pleasant sunny days we have had in many weeks and I must say, those grey skies really get me down.

Pete
 
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