10 dead and counting as storms hit UK

mike65 · 18-01-2007 6:59pm #1

Think its been bad here?

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23382226-details/Five+killed+and+transport+chaos+as+storms+lash+Britain/article.do

A two-year-old boy was among at least 10 people killed today in the savage storms that battered Britain.

Many others were injured as gusts approaching 100mph and heavy downpours brought transport chaos, damaged buildings and shut down major attractions.

Scotland Yard said at 1.15pm today a brick wall collapsed on the boy in Southampton Road, Belsize Park, north London.

A police spokesman said the youngster - who was with his childminder - was taken to hospital where he was pronounced dead.

The childminder is not thought to be seriously injured.

Richard Heard, 54, was killed on his way to his work as managing director of Birmingham Airport when a tree branch smashed into his car windscreen on the B4373 near Bridgnorth, Shropshire..../

Mike.

ninebeanrows · 18-01-2007 7:07pm

Yes the fatalities have been higher in Britain due to the widespread nature of the event and the fact that it was centered over popluated area. Nonethless no location in Britain with such a population as Dublin recieved a gust to 92mph which Dublin did.

Infact bar the exposed coastal region of Needle where a gust to 99mph was recorded and a hill top at 350m in central Britain where a gust of 106mph was recorded most gusts were just up to the low 80mph in the peak of the storm.

I think that Dublin Airports recording is by far the most shocking with regard its location, population compared to in Britain.

Generally we were lucky not too see signifigant damage and the highest winds occured when most were safely in their offices. around 10/11am.

A Dub in Glasgo · 18-01-2007 9:34pm

To be honest, who really gives a **** about whether the gusts are higher in Dublin than anywhere comparable. The facts are people are being killed by this event today (and last week off Waterford).

Luckily, in Scotland, we have escaped the wind today and just had a bit of snowfall to contend with.

arctictree · 18-01-2007 9:51pm

A Dub in Glasgo wrote:

To be honest, who really gives a **** about whether the gusts are higher in Dublin than anywhere comparable.

Errr - I do. The whole purpose of these threads is to discuss weather events.

A

A Dub in Glasgo · 18-01-2007 9:54pm

Fair enough... over to you then

arctictree · 18-01-2007 10:14pm

Just saw it on the news - mad. Things should die down windwise over the next few days and hence less casualties. Will turn colder though as we all know.

rc28 · 19-01-2007 12:32pm

whoa the storm has now claimed 41 lives across northern europe, places like poland and the czech republic just never usually experience winds like this:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6277537.stm
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/01/19/europe.storm.ap/index.html
this video is funny though, taken from canary wharf in london, i think the wind was so bad there due to the downdraft effect from the the wind hitting the tall office buildings:
http://today.reuters.com/tv/videoStory.aspx?isSummitStory=False&storyId=30d6696107dc07475b07cd0366b1eb32cf716f97&WTmodLoc=NewsArt-L2-RelatedVideo-3

10 dead and counting as storms hit UK

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