OT: Wild weather

richardandtracy

It appears that Florida is having a torrid time at the moment, and my heart goes out to everyone suffering under it. Stay safe and look after everyone, do, please.

In fact, the weather seems so bad that the BBC weather predictions are going out in sympathy, predicting wild weather in the south of England. Here's the forcast for my postcode for the next few hours:

Only 6143mph winds, increasing to 6144mph tomorrow, then dropping to 3mph on Saturday.

Regards,

Richard

Elor

MPH for Miles per hour ? It seems a bit too high (9887 km/h )

background

Meanwhile they also indicate overnight temperatures of 404 degrees in Nottingham, Scorchio!

richardandtracy

Yeah. 12Centigrade or 404Farenheit in New Basford/Nottingham. Odd that. But only has wind speeds of 4804 mph. Quite reasonable, really.

It appears my dad's house in North Devon should be experiencing wind speeds of 9348mph until next Wednesday.

I always thought Neptune had the fastest wind speeds at 1200mph/2000kmh of any planet in the solar system, seems the BBC knows better.

Regards,

Richard

alexhcowley

background said:

Meanwhile they also indicate overnight temperatures of 404 degrees in Nottingham, Scorchio!

The real problem starts when they post a temperature of minus 274 centigrade.  That's a scientific impossiblity. 

Cheers,

Alex.

background

alexhcowley said:

background said:

Meanwhile they also indicate overnight temperatures of 404 degrees in Nottingham, Scorchio!

The real problem starts when they post a temperature of minus 274 centigrade.  That's a scientific impossiblity. 

Cheers,

Alex.

Maybe the BBC are trying to win back viewers. I did say "when hell freezes over" in that respect. 

LeatherGryphon

alexhcowley said:

background said:

Meanwhile they also indicate overnight temperatures of 404 degrees in Nottingham, Scorchio!

The real problem starts when they post a temperature of minus 274 centigrade.  That's a scientific impossiblity. 

Cheers,

Alex.

And even converting to Celsius wouldn't help either. 

oddbob

I live in the middle so we just get everybody else's left over weather all year round, which is a sort of luke warm drizzle. Does change to torrential rain if I get within a few feet of a motorbike. Which is nice.

Roman_K2

I'm not much of a weather guy - to my detriment perhaps; I've been out on big lakes a couple of times when storms came out of seemingly nowhere.

For me a big issue is "who's next?". Here in my major centre it was a summer of big time flooding. And we took a direct hit in 1954 with Hurricane Hazel. Just as an example in the summer we had drains backing up which caused water to collect... which can in turn cause electrical equipment to fail. Bingo, pumps stop working/apartments flooded/people out on the street or into shelters and hotels.

Porter Fox issued a stark warning in an Op/Ed piece in the New York Times:

“If you are reading this in the Midwest, Northeast or even Southwest, consider that this meteorological nightmare might come for you. A recent study by the First Street Foundation, a research firm that studies climate threats to housing, showed that hurricanes will penetrate farther inland in decades to come, affecting states with tropical storm conditions as far west as Iowa, Michigan and Wisconsin. In North Carolina, the damage from Hurricane Helene nearly 500 miles from the coast far outweighed that of the landfall site in Florida.”

- https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/09/opinion/hurricane-milton-florida-storm-surge-climate-change.html  (Oct. 10, 2024, Section A, p.24)