"Philip Eden" philipATweatherHYPHENukDOTcom wrote in message
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Why 'focused'? It's arguable, I suppose, that a risk can be
'focused'. But surely not 'the greatest risk'. That's tautological.
And, because the emphasis is on the first syllable, it is
normally spelt with one 's'. Simple English helps make the
warning clear: "The greatest risk is over high ground." I continue
to argue that it is outside the expertise of weather forecasters to
assess risk of 'disruption', a word that is never defined in this
context.

Especially if we assume that 'disruption' refers to traffic and
the provision of services such as schools, the level of disruption
expected from this event must be far lower than had the exact
same weather situation been expected 24hrs later.

Col
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Bolton, Lancashire.
160m asl.