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"Hurricane To Smash Britain"

  • 03-10-2011 11:01pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 500 ✭✭✭


    This was just on sky news as a headline in the Daily Express tomorrow, anyone know anything about it?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,099 ✭✭✭TheMilkyPirate


    Yeah, It's bullsh!t.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 273 ✭✭Weylin


    NEW HURRICANE TO HIT BRITAIN


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    Hurricane Katia battered Britain earlier in the summer



    Tuesday October 4,2011

    By Nathan Rao


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    BRITAIN’S Indian Summer is about to be swept aside as four days of gales and torrential rains batter the country.


    The tail end of Hurricane Ophelia, currently lashing the United States, is due to hit tomorrow causing chaos with 65mph gusts.
    And on top of that, an early Big Freeze is expected with an “Arctic blast bringing severe frosts” and snowfall in some areas before the end of the month.
    Over the next few days there will be a risk of flooding, falling branches and damaged buildings across virtually the entire UK, weather experts said last night.
    Jonathan Powell, senior forecaster at Positive Weather Solutions, said the strength of the winds could match Hurricane Katia which devastated parts of Britain last month.
    “The remnants of Ophelia are gearing up to cause chaos this week and look likely to set in until the weekend with virtually the whole of the country in for a battering,” he said. “It will be coupled with torrential rain, although there will be a lull in the downpours on Thursday and Friday.

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    The tail end of Hurricane Ophelia, currently lashing the United States, is due to hit tomorrow
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    “The end of the month and November are looking colder than average with an Arctic blast bringing freezing temperatures, severe frosts and even the chance of snow.”
    He said Ophelia could “give Katia a run for her money”.
    Helen Chivers, forecaster at the Met Office, said: “The tail of Ophelia is going to get mixed up in our system towards the end of the week.
    “The North could be in for some gale-force gusts. It is certainly the end of the warm spell and is looking much more like a windy and rainy autumn ­picture.”
    It will bring an abrupt end to Britain’s autumn heatwave which has made the past few days feel more like mid-summer than October.
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    Virtually the entire country has basked in an Indian Summer with temperatures nudging 86F (30C) over the weekend, breaking previous records for October.
    That followed the hottest September 30 for more than 100 years with parts of the country hitting 85F at the weekend.
    The heatwave is thought to have caused the deaths of thousands – a 10 per cent increase in deaths is expected in hot spells.
    Doctors said it could even exceed the 11 per cent death rate spike seen when temperatures hit 86F in August during a hot snap that lasted just two days.
    Last week saw temperatures consistently pushing 86F for five days, nearly 30F higher than average, with night-time temperatures higher than expected for the time of year.
    London Ambulance Service reported a 20 per cent rise in emergency calls for people with breathing difficulties, with a call every 20 seconds at some points.
    Yesterday the Department of Health defended its decision not to issue a heat health warning.
    Dave Britton, spokesman for the Met Office, which issues the warnings on behalf of the Department of Health, said: “Temperatures did not reach trigger levels.”
    Weathermen yesterday warn­- ed that an early cold snap could see temperatures plunge to freezing this month bringing snow in a matter of weeks.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 88,968 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    "some woman just rang the BBC and said she heard there was a hurricane on the way"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,560 ✭✭✭✭dsmythy


    There's no bloody hurricane coming to Ireland. Tell as many as you can before the idea gains traction.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 500 ✭✭✭parrai


    dsmythy wrote: »
    There's no bloody hurricane coming to Ireland. Tell as many as you can before the idea gains traction.


    Thought as much, going to London tomorrow but have to be back in a few days so was just wonderin... Thanks


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,776 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    baraca wrote: »
    Yeah, It's bullsh!t.

    That you Michael Fish?

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 88,968 ✭✭✭✭mike65


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,683 ✭✭✭Carpenter


    Waiting for a Hurricane


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,655 ✭✭✭delw


    http://youtu.be/Ow9naBfvrhs
    sorry couldn't resist ;):D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,087 ✭✭✭Duiske


    parrai wrote: »
    This was just on sky news as a headline in the Daily Express tomorrow, anyone know anything about it?

    Seen it on the news earlier but could not remember which paper they were reviewing. Caused a bit of a WTF moment.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,655 ✭✭✭delw


    :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,655 ✭✭✭delw




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,150 ✭✭✭Deep Easterly


    Weylin wrote: »
    NEW HURRICANE TO HIT BRITAIN

    BRITAIN’S Indian Summer is about to be swept aside as four days of gales and torrential rains batter the country.


    The tail end of Hurricane Ophelia, currently lashing the United States, is due to hit tomorrow causing chaos with 65mph gusts.
    And on top of that, an early Big Freeze is expected with an “Arctic blast bringing severe frosts” and snowfall in some areas before the end of the month.
    Over the next few days there will be a risk of flooding, falling branches and damaged buildings across virtually the entire UK, weather experts said last night.
    Jonathan Powell, senior forecaster at Positive Weather Solutions, said the strength of the winds could match Hurricane Katia which devastated parts of Britain last month.
    “The remnants of Ophelia are gearing up to cause chaos this week and look likely to set in until the weekend with virtually the whole of the country in for a battering,” he said. “It will be coupled with torrential rain, although there will be a lull in the downpours on Thursday and Friday.

    Love the sense of urgency and panic in that article, and over something that is not out of the norm for this time of year. It is just funny how Britain is facing 4 days of torrential rain in one line, yet there will be a lull in the torrential rains for two days in another. In other words, its a big pile of arse.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,279 ✭✭✭Su Campu


    Ophelia's currently battering the US? That's funny, I could have sworn it stayed out to sea and completely missed them, though maybe the NHC, satellites, radar and surface charts were all wrong!

    This is the worst trash journalism yet....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,767 ✭✭✭cml387


    Possibly OT for the weather forum,but bear in mind that the Daily Express,once a great newspaper, is now a comic.
    Its headlines are designed to sell the newspaper and seldom bear any resemblance to reality.

    OK,back to the weather.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,388 ✭✭✭gbee


    Su Campu wrote: »
    This is the worst trash journalism yet....

    I have to take exception to your post Su. You can't bash journalism like that, it's neither trash nor journalism.

    The article is totally inaccurate of course for it to be lashing the US as we type and it'll be lashing Britain tomorrow it'll cross the Atlantic in less than 24hours. Making the speed of the storm some 125mile per hour [or more] which means it crosses Britain in just two hours and is gone.

    The paper has it lingering around for a couple of days ~ so they have a few facts wrong, they seems to have all their facts wrong and it's an insult to call them journalist.

    It's a rubbish report more likely by made by the tea lady while the meteorologist reporters were having a fag outside during their tea break.

    ***This is a fun post and I don't take exception at all. *** :):):)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,248 ✭✭✭kstand


    Typical sensationalist ill-informed rubbish article from a rag of a newspaper. Had to laugh when I read this:

    "That followed the hottest September 30 for more than 100 years with parts of the country hitting 85F at the weekend.

    The heatwave is thought to have caused the deaths of thousands – a 10 per cent increase in deaths is expected in hot spells."

    Yeah, like people were lying dead on the streets from heat exhaustion and there werent enough sapces in the morgues so the living had to improvise with makeshift freezers in order to preserve the dead. Whoever wrote this is not a journalist, not even a reporter.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,068 ✭✭✭Iancar29


    Why is this thread not in inverted commas? ...


  • Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 17,150 Mod ✭✭✭✭cherryghost


    So a hurricane is a splash of rain now? God help us when the temperatures start dipping

    'BRITAIN SET FOR 4 MONTH BIG FREEZE' :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,387 ✭✭✭pauldry


    Next thing they will say is 5,600C Fireball to hit Britain!!! (i.e. Rays from the sun):p


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,338 ✭✭✭sunbabe08


    hang onm so this hurricane is supposedly going to smash Britain, but completely avoid ireland? who on earth wrote that crap?? ahhh the express :rolleyes: idiots

    also... when did Ophelia smash the u.s with rain and wind?? seriously :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 385 ✭✭IRCA


    Love the sense of urgency and panic in that article, and over something that is not out of the norm for this time of year. It is just funny how Britain is facing 4 days of torrential rain in one line, yet there will be a lull in the torrential rains for two days in another. In other words, its a big pile of arse.

    Lets not forget FIRE and BRIMSTONE and the WORST PARTS OF THE BIBLE!!!! think I'll stay in bed....:D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 88,968 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Tom Dunne just mentioned the "hurricane" as well :(


  • Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 17,150 Mod ✭✭✭✭cherryghost


    Fierce storm force winds of about 30mph gusts here in Athlone. Saw a plastic bag being dragged down the road from the severity. Heavy flooding here too. Almost walked into a puddle this morning. :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,046 ✭✭✭Tom Cruises Left Nut


    Fierce storm force winds of about 30mph gusts here in Athlone. Saw a plastic bag being dragged down the road from the severity. Heavy flooding here too. Almost walked into a puddle this morning. :rolleyes:

    Oh my god

    Are you ok ? :(

    :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,248 ✭✭✭kstand


    Saw a storm warning in a tabloid here in England this morning. The second last sentence read:
    "Temperatures will plunge to as low as 12 degc"


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 88,968 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    That's a shock for anyone in Kent though!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 596 ✭✭✭Chicken Run


    kstand wrote: »
    Saw a storm warning in a tabloid here in England this morning. The second last sentence read:
    "Temperatures will plunge to as low as 12 degc"

    better break out the extra woolly socks and the winter duvet then.... :D

    (slow news day is it that they've nothing better to print ??)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,248 ✭✭✭kstand


    better break out the extra woolly socks and the winter duvet then.... :D

    (slow news day is it that they've nothing better to print ??)

    It appeared in one of the pages in the Sun. Not that they dont have very much to print, its just that those writing those stories couldnt tell the difference between 12 Celcuis and 12 Fahrenheit. But if Coleen McLoughlin appeared outside a shop wearing a dress, they'd be able to tell who made the dress, where to get it, what it cost and what looked like it in Primark just by seeing the colour.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,039 ✭✭✭force eleven


    It's been like this in much of the print media since the days of 'Phew What a Scorcher!' back in 1976. My pet hate is when those pesky 'mini tornadoes' occur here.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,248 ✭✭✭kstand


    It's been like this in much of the print media since the days of 'Phew What a Scorcher!' back in 1976. My pet hate is when those pesky 'mini tornadoes' occur here.

    Yeah. on Monday over here they were saying "snow by the weekend". In the Cairngorms. There should be a rule whereby anyone who writes such sensationalist rubbish is suspended without pay immediately while an immediate investigation launched into how they came to be reporting on anything in the first place.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,159 ✭✭✭John mac


    Who is Coleen McLoughlin #?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,387 ✭✭✭pauldry


    Isnt it gas too when there is a storm they zoom the camera in on a big puddle to make it look like a flood or go to a tree(that theyve probably cut down and placed a car under)

    Very windy here right now heard a dog bark. must be 40knots so I guess some respect though I reckon the showers will be quite unpleasant to be in tomorrow but that is all. Wish that dog outside would blow away.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 88,968 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    John mac wrote: »
    Who is Coleen McLoughlin #?

    If you don't know you are better off!

    The lovely lady on the weather didn't even mention an ex-hurricane never mind the real thing. Just a bit blowy on Friday.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,548 ✭✭✭Harps


    Potential for 120km/hr gusts around here tomorrow, can't imagine it'll be anything too exciting, just a horrible day. Probably some impressive seas for anyone who happens to be on the north coast. Cold as well, down to 7C so maybe a small chance of some snowfall on top of the mountains overnight


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,248 ✭✭✭kstand


    John mac wrote: »
    Who is Coleen McLoughlin #?


    Wayne Rooney's wife.
    Heat magazine. Or any of that other inane crap that women read when they realise that they have to spend an hour or two in their own company or chatting inane crap to one of their friends on the phone.
    I apologise for profaning this place with the presence of such thrash.


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