Tom Bennett wrote:
I notice on http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/..._warnings.html
tha the UKMO has weqather warnings "severe gales" for every region (??) for
Saturday Sunday AND Monday.

Is it a case of someone there just spilling the red ink over the maps or do
all 60 million of us really need to hold tightly onto our socks for the
next 3 days?

Even though it looks a bit of a heavy-handed approach, I imagine it
represents the uncertainty in the track of the system(s) and that fact
that we're having two pulses of strong winds expected - the FSXX T+48
and T+60 for 00Z and 12Z Sunday show the two pulses quite well.

I've stuck them on he
http://img151.imageshack.us/my.php?image=00zsunzf4.jpg
http://img180.imageshack.us/my.php?i...zsundayre2.jpg

Looks very interesting ahead. Looking a bit ahead of myself to next
Thursday, the models are pointing to another system that could bring
further strong winds.

Cheers
Richard