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mark occomore · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 9955 Location: UK

The Met Office has warned that people should stay in does this mean lots of people are taking today off? Laughing

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7285859.stm

Niblet · Joined: 23 Feb 2008 Posts: 119

Of course

My boss always lets us do what the met office suggests.

Inland South Wales didn't get as battered as expected last night - we've had far worse nights this winter. The warnings are still in place though. Maybe we'll get to finish early (said optimistically but unexpectantly)
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Lord Evan Elpuss · Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 3417 Location: Cloud Cuckoo Land

You can see it here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/world/west_europe/cloud.shtml and here: http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/radar/
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MadeinSurrey · Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 9:40 am Post subject:

Mark, please note we live in Great BRITAIN. You never spell it rite.
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Lord Evan Elpuss · Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 3417 Location: Cloud Cuckoo Land

We all make misteaks!!
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MadeinSurrey · Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 10:00 am Post subject:

Indood we de!
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iwarburton · Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 2133 Location: Northumberland

This time we're not getting the worst of it.

Ian.

tarahrah bomdiay · Joined: 17 Dec 2007 Posts: 260

Well I'm taking today off and the next 6 weeks Shocked

doctors orders unfortunately.
I was pretty glad I didn't have to go out whe I heard the wind blowing like a loon but why all the hysterical coverage. I know it was a big storm but it's not as if it hasn't happend before, only in Britain Laughing

RockitRon · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 7646

I think, having been caught short so many times in the past, the Met Office have now decided to overstate the likely severity of weather conditions in the hope that we'll all be heartily relieved and pleased with them when most of us come through whatever Mother Nature habitually throws at the British Isles relatively unscathed.

There could still be a sting in the tail of this one, and I can hear the wind getting up as I type this. I would still rather have it the way this and other storms this winter have been predicted, rather than be caught off guard.
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John W · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 3367 Location: Warwickshire, UK

Seems to me another case of sensationalist reporting, or predicting, of severe weather which to be honest hasn't happened. Blustery winds would be a good description, saw a BBC news reporter this morning hanging onto a lampost in Brighton : Smile

A few trees down. The most dramatic e-mail sent to Skynews was from a woman in a caravan in Wales who was kept up all night with the rain : Smile

oh and, honest, one from a woman who found her drenched cat on the doorstep, I don't know how Eamonn Holmes kept a straight face, he usually cracks up at stuff like this

Here in the Midlands it rained a little about 8.15am....... it was glorious sunshine (9.10am) when I went out, then a bit of rain at 1.30pm. I think I'll go out a prune some hedges.

Come on, we had much worse weather last SUMMER!

Oh, the weathermen's blushes have been spared, a tanker ran aground off the the Isle of Wight.

Behind Geddon's Wall · Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 4:25 pm Post subject:

A mite damp and drizzley east of the pennines. Even the advisory speed limit J36/37 M62 has been lifted.
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RockitRon · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 7646

Yes, we have had it worse than this, even in the South-west, without the hyperbolic reporting. It's a slow news day; perhaps we should be grateful that there's not some major tragedy or violent action somewhere in the world to take our media's mind off it.
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Cherskiy · Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 8:30 pm Post subject:

iwarburton · Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 2133 Location: Northumberland

This time we're not getting the worst of it.

Ian.
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It now looks as if we'll get it tonight and tomorrow.

But not a bad day so far.

Ian.

Behind Geddon's Wall · Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 1:10 pm Post subject:

Apparently it may get a little draughty this evening and early Wednesday, but as it's north of Watford, they'll not send any reporters.
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And so were exactly what I was born to spoil
For I am the Rider to the World's End
Bound across the cinder causeway
From the furnace to the quarry
Through the fields of oil

Lord Evan Elpuss · Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 3417 Location: Cloud Cuckoo Land

gfloyd · Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 8:43 pm Post subject:

Lord Evan Elpuss · Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 3417 Location: Cloud Cuckoo Land

Behind Geddon's Wall · Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 8:49 am Post subject:

Wonder of wonders, the fact that the Humber Bridge was closed to High sided Vehicles actually made the R2 news.
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You simply mustn't blame yourself -- the days were perfect
And so were exactly what I was born to spoil
For I am the Rider to the World's End
Bound across the cinder causeway
From the furnace to the quarry
Through the fields of oil

Spanners · Joined: 05 Jan 2008 Posts: 169 Location: Lincolnshire

Was woken in the night to hear a strange noise, which sounded like someone tapping out morse. Couldn't find the source of the noise but in the cold light of day realised that it was the antennae on my indoor tv aerial which was vibrating to the wind howling around my farm house. The strange thing is that I slept through the recent earthquake which woke the rest of the nation!! Rolling Eyes

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