Ye Gods. That's this winter's buzzword sorted. Come in Polar Vortex, your time is up. Move over The Beast From The East.

I wonder if anyone trumpeting this new word dare try and explain what 1 bergeron is to the public?

Richard

"Richard Dixon" wrote in message
...
Ye Gods. That's this winter's buzzword sorted. Come in Polar Vortex, your
time is up. Move over The Beast From The East.

I wonder if anyone trumpeting this new word dare try and explain what 1
bergeron is to the public?


I call it the "pest from the west" .

Weather bomb indeed, just a plain old fashioned fast deepening low, nothing
to get *that* excited about.

Wonder when we will get the next "Siberian blast" ? Have winds *ever* come
from Siberia, it's a long way away but it does sound cold :-)

Will
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Richard Dixon wrote:

Ye Gods. That's this winter's buzzword sorted. Come in Polar Vortex, your
time is up. Move over The Beast From The East.

I wonder if anyone trumpeting this new word dare try and explain what 1
bergeron is to the public?

Richard

On the news on Classic FM today I heard the term 'rapid cyclogenesis' being
used. Well done to them, or to the journalists at Global Radio who prepare the
bulletins for Classic. They must be listening to someone sensible. Not sure
what Joe Public would make of it, though.

--
Norman Lynagh
Tideswell, Derbyshire
303m a.s.l.
http://peakdistrictweather.org

On Tuesday, December 9, 2014 3:04:19 PM UTC, Richard Dixon wrote:
Ye Gods. That's this winter's buzzword sorted. Come in Polar Vortex, your time is up. Move over The Beast From The East.

I wonder if anyone trumpeting this new word dare try and explain what 1 bergeron is to the public?

Richard

Reading the Daily Expressive today (front and inside page) was an entertainment. The way they mixed and matched the MetO real forecasts for this week and Weather Action idiocy for the next three weeks, to create confusion in their reader's minds that piers might have some kind of forecasting equality was nothing short of scandalous.

On 9 Dec 2014 15:26:26 GMT
"Norman" wrote:

Richard Dixon wrote:

Ye Gods. That's this winter's buzzword sorted. Come in Polar
Vortex, your time is up. Move over The Beast From The East.

I wonder if anyone trumpeting this new word dare try and explain
what 1 bergeron is to the public?

Richard

On the news on Classic FM today I heard the term 'rapid cyclogenesis'
being used. Well done to them, or to the journalists at Global Radio
who prepare the bulletins for Classic. They must be listening to
someone sensible. Not sure what Joe Public would make of it, though.


Whoever was the forecaster I saw on on BBC last night also used the
term in preference to "weather bomb".

As to what Joe Public makes of it, I wondered that when I saw the
cryptic crossword clue to 1 across in the first issue of the
Independent. It was something on the lines of "sounds as if this
blackcurrant could lead to cyclogenesis (3,6)" though it was probably a
bit more obscure than that.

--
Graham P Davis, Bracknell, Berks.
[Retired meteorologist and computer programmer]
Posted with Claws: http://www.claws-mail.org/

On 09/12/2014 15:26, Norman wrote:
Richard Dixon wrote:

Ye Gods. That's this winter's buzzword sorted. Come in Polar Vortex, your
time is up. Move over The Beast From The East.

I wonder if anyone trumpeting this new word dare try and explain what 1
bergeron is to the public?

Richard

On the news on Classic FM today I heard the term 'rapid cyclogenesis' being
used. Well done to them, or to the journalists at Global Radio who prepare the
bulletins for Classic. They must be listening to someone sensible. Not sure
what Joe Public would make of it, though.


http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/1364402/explosive-cyclogenesis

--

Brian W Lawrence
Wantage
Oxfordshire

"Malcolm" wrote (quoting the Daily Express, I think):

"The deepest and most powerful low pressure system for A CENTURY
is currently hurtling towards the west coast where mammoth 50-ft
waves threaten mayhem."

Are they claiming that it's *already* the deepest and most powerful low
pressure system for a century (which should be easy enough to verify or
refute), or just that they *expect* it to be?

It certainly looks quite lively out there in the Atlantic...

On Tuesday, December 9, 2014 6:09:21 PM UTC, Togless wrote:
"Malcolm" wrote (quoting the Daily Express, I think):

"The deepest and most powerful low pressure system for A CENTURY
is currently hurtling towards the west coast where mammoth 50-ft
waves threaten mayhem."

Are they claiming that it's *already* the deepest and most powerful low
pressure system for a century (which should be easy enough to verify or
refute), or just that they *expect* it to be?

It certainly looks quite lively out there in the Atlantic...

Whilst 50' waves are very large, they occur in the north Atlantic every winter. In fact 60' waves have been surfed in Ireland & Portugal.

Tip of Cornwall March 2008 Still considered the biggest swell in living memory on the tip of Cornwall, yet barely made the news. http://www.sennen-cove.com/10march08.htm

The Cribbar Newquay http://www.newquaysurfer.org/wp-cont...ar-30thoct.jpg
(Any excuse to show a surfing picture!)

Graham
Penzance

In message , Eskimo Will
writes
Wonder when we will get the next "Siberian blast" ? Have winds *ever*
come from Siberia, it's a long way away but it does sound cold :-)



I remember reading, possibly in Gordon Manley's "Climate and the British
Scene" that it's very rare for air to reach us that originated from
Siberia, ie east of the Urals, and the usual source for our winter
easterlies is either European Russia or the north European plain (ie
Germany or Poland).
--
I'm not paid to implement the recognition of irony.
(Taken, with the author's permission, from a LiveJournal
post)

On Tue, 9 Dec 2014 18:09:20 -0000
"Togless" wrote:

"Malcolm" wrote (quoting the Daily Express, I think):

"The deepest and most powerful low pressure system for A CENTURY
is currently hurtling towards the west coast where mammoth 50-ft
waves threaten mayhem."

Are they claiming that it's *already* the deepest and most powerful
low pressure system for a century (which should be easy enough to
verify or refute), or just that they *expect* it to be?


I knew I was getting old but seem to be getting forgetful too. If
that piddling little depression is the deepest for a century and I
remember lots deeper than this, where'd my telegram from the queen go?

--
Graham P Davis, Bracknell, Berks.
[Retired meteorologist and computer programmer]
Posted with Claws: http://www.claws-mail.org/