Storm Babet

[City Hobgoblin]

Storm force winds are above 55mph

 

[snorky]

There is a 'Middleton on the Hill' in the Shire.

Just sayin.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Naming of “storms” is a recent phenomenon, started around 4 years ago to raise awareness. The issue now, any low pressure system seems to be a “storm”. The very definition of a storm is what is being brought into doubt here. If we were to all largely agree what a “storm” was, this weeks event, or most other “storms” named by the met office wouldn’t even register.

The naming of storms has been going on for centuries - as far back, in fact, as the 1500s. Saints were a popular choice back then; a hurricane hit Puerto Rico on 4 October 1526 as the Catholic feast day of St Francis of Assisi was being celebrated - so the storm was named San Francisco.
It is thought that the first meteorologist to officially give storms names was the widely travelled Clement Wragge. Born in Staffordshire, he moved to Australia and initially used characters from Greek and Roman mythology. But when the government of the day failed to appoint him director of a new meteorological bureau, he showed his frustration by naming some of the cyclones in the southern hemisphere after Australian politicians.


But yes, the Met office started using names in 2015, so that’s when you became aware of them.

Storms are named when they could cause ‘medium’ or ‘high’ impacts in one of the three partner countries.

It is said that the naming practice helps provide consistent and authoritative messaging in times of severe weather.

Storms first started receiving names in the UK and Ireland in 2015, and in November that year, Storm Abigail became the first ever named storm.


There isn’t much information on why people randomly hate a storm being named. Perhaps you could do a paper on it.

 

[hammocity]

Naming of “storms” is a recent phenomenon, started around 4 years ago to raise awareness. The issue now, any low pressure system seems to be a “storm”. The very definition of a storm is what is being brought into doubt here. If we were to all largely agree what a “storm” was, this weeks event, or most other “storms” named by the met office wouldn’t even register.

8 years ago in the UK but the American’s have been allocating names for over 70 years.

 

[Churchlawtonblue]

Storm force winds are above 55mph

Yes , and that is measurred as a mean wind speed over a period of time, 10 minutes usually. Maximum wind gusts don't count.

I think that when I last checked there had only ever been one of these named storms that actually was classed as storm meterologically . And that was in the outer hebrides. The rest are actually just gales.

It is very dramatic and a bit OTT imo and it probably follows on from the US naming hurricanes. Luckily we don't really experience much extreme weather in this country.

 

[City Hobgoblin]

It's like the "Beast From The East" , the need for the media to try to jazz things up.
We used to call this a Polar Continental Air Mass

 

[splinter]

Wet tomorrow

 

[jimharri]

It's like the "Beast From The East" , the need for the media to try to jazz things up.
We used to call this a Polar Continental Air Mass

I remember a time when it was called "bad weather".

 

[kaz7]

This whole naming of storms is ridiculous. Yet another thing the social media generation can dramatise for no apparent reason. If there was no “storm Babet” in the news, today would go down as a wet and windy day. Granted there is exceptionally heavy rain in a small proportion of Scotland, which has now issued a red warning which is extremely rare, but usually these “storms” are nothing out of the ordinary

They only name storms that will do damage , weather lady on gmb

 

[Manchester33]

It's like the "Beast From The East" , the need for the media to try to jazz things up.
We used to call this a Polar Continental Air Mass

To be fair the Beast from the East a few years ago was mad. I remember City played Arsenal that day and there were more City fans in the away end than there were Arsenal fans (the soft so and so's)!

-13 Celcius in Manchester that day.