WOUK77 EGRR 071542
NATIONAL SEVERE WEATHER WARNING SERVICE

EMERGENCY Flash Warning of
- Severe Gales/Storms

For the following areas
- Northern England
- Yorkshire and Lincolnshire
- Blackburn with Darwen
- Blackpool
- Dumfries + Galloway
- E Ayrshire
- E Lothian
- Gtr Manchester
- Lancashire
- Midlothian
- S Ayrshire
- S Lanarkshire
- Scottish Borders

Storm force westerly winds with gusts of 80 to 90 mph are expected
across northern and eastern England and parts of southern Scotland
from the early hours of Saturday morning. Northeast England is
currently considered at greatest risk from the damaging winds.
Buildings could be damaged and many trees uprooted. Driving
conditions will be extremely dangerous and the public is advised not
to make any journeys unless really necessary.

Issued by the Met Office at 15:42 on Friday, 07th January 2005

Valid from 00:00 on Saturday, 08th January 2005
until 10:00 on Saturday, 08th January 2005

For enquiries regarding this warning -
please contact the Met Office customer centre
- Phone: 0870 900 0100
- Fax : 0870 900 5050
- Email:

"Stu" wrote in message
...
WOUK77 EGRR 071542
NATIONAL SEVERE WEATHER WARNING SERVICE

EMERGENCY Flash Warning of
- Severe Gales/Storms

Wow, this looks like a really nasty one.
If winds of 90mph are mentioned then that's far more than your
average winter gale and if it hasn't been over-hyped it will be
very serious indeed.

Something tells me I won't be getting much sleep tonight

Col
--
Bolton, Lancashire.
160m asl.
http://www.reddwarfer.btinternet.co.uk
http://www.reddwarfer.btinternet.co....rPictures.html

"Stu" wrote in message
...
WOUK77 EGRR 071542
NATIONAL SEVERE WEATHER WARNING SERVICE

EMERGENCY Flash Warning of
- Severe Gales/Storms
Storm force westerly winds with gusts of 80 to 90 mph are expected
across northern and eastern England and parts of southern Scotland
from the early hours of Saturday morning. Northeast England is
currently considered at greatest risk from the damaging winds.
Buildings could be damaged and many trees uprooted. Driving
conditions will be extremely dangerous and the public is advised not
to make any journeys unless really necessary.

Yet another sleepless night then!!
current ob
COPLEY 071750 23025KT 9999 RA OVC 09/08 Q1001

I suppose Jon's TAF is marginally better, 65KT +9KT sounds better than
90mph. I'll be following the EGNT times on the TAF with more than the
usual interest!

We were 40KT mean last night, so here we go again!

ATB,

--
Ken Cook, Copley (5miles north of Barnard Castle), County Durham.
830ft
http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/copley
(MO climat. site updated before 10Z and 19Z daily)
kencookATcopleydurham.freeserve.co.uk
(All times GMT)

"Stu" wrote in message
...

snip
Driving
conditions will be extremely dangerous and the public is advised not
to make any journeys unless really necessary.

The public *is* advised ????

Philip Eden

In message , Philip Eden
writes

"Stu" wrote in message
...

snip
Driving
conditions will be extremely dangerous and the public is advised not
to make any journeys unless really necessary.

The public *is* advised ????

Philip Eden



The public is singular, I understand. Unlooked-for precision by the
writer. Unusual these days, hence the over-use of sadly and the use of
scarey in journalism. The precision is the more to be cherished because
of its rarity.

--
Peter Thomas

"Philip Eden" philipATweatherHYPHENukDOTcom wrote in message
...

"Stu" wrote in message
...

snip
Driving
conditions will be extremely dangerous and the public is advised not
to make any journeys unless really necessary.

The public *is* advised ????

Rather than *are* advised I presume.
Both sound correct to me. There is only one public so *is* would
seem correct, but the public comprised many individuals so
*are* seems equally correct.

Col
--
Bolton, Lancashire.
160m asl.
http://www.reddwarfer.btinternet.co.uk
http://www.reddwarfer.btinternet.co....rPictures.html

Joe Public? I used to drink with him down the local...ah, them were the
days...sorry...those were the days.

"Philip Eden" philipATweatherHYPHENukDOTcom wrote in message
...

The public *is* advised ????

Philip Eden

Philip Eden wrote:
"Stu" wrote in message
...

snip
Driving
conditions will be extremely dangerous and the public is advised not
to make any journeys unless really necessary.

The public *is* advised ????

Philip Eden

'The public' is normally regarded as a singular collective noun and I
think thus takes a singular verb form.

Regards,
Tom

"Philip Eden" philipATweatherHYPHENukDOTcom wrote in message
...

"Stu" wrote in message
...


The public *is* advised ????

Philip Eden

Hi, Philip,
Looks OK to me, collective noun so singular?

ATB,

--
Ken
http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/copley
kencookATcopleydurham.freeserve.co.uk

"Peter Thomas" wrote in message
...
In message , Philip Eden
writes

"Stu" wrote in message
...

snip
Driving
conditions will be extremely dangerous and the public is advised not
to make any journeys unless really necessary.

The public *is* advised ????

The public is singular, I understand. Unlooked-for precision by the
writer. Unusual these days, hence the over-use of sadly and the use of
scarey in journalism. The precision is the more to be cherished because of
its rarity.

"The public" is, as Fowler calls it, a noun of multitude. It
may be followed by either a singular or a plural form of the
verb, according to whether it stands for a single entity or
for the individuals who compose it. The clue in the above
example is in the rest of the sentence. If the writer of the
Emergency Flash Warning regards "the public" as a single
entity, he or she therefore expects "the public" may have
decided to make one or more journeys as a single entity.
If the writer of the warning thinks that individual members
of the public might be considering making individual
journeys, then evidently he or she believes that "the public"
comprises a large number of individuals.

Philip Eden