"Philip Eden" philipATweatherHYPHENukDOTcom wrote in
:

"Good afternoon earlier on today apparently a woman rang the
BBC and said she heard that there was a hurricane on the way.
Well of you are watching don't worry, there isn't. But having said
that actually the weather will become very windy but most of
the strong winds incidentally will be down over Spain and across
France as well but there is a vicious looking area of low pressure
on our doorstep nevertheless, around the Brittany area and
that is going to head across the southeastern corner of the
country bringing if nothing else a lot of rain with it.

Seems as though from that they were thinking the track of the low would stay
further to the east with only the rain affecting the SE.

And of course it's worth mentioning Bill Giles' evening forecast only
stating "a bit breezy in the channel" even closer to the event.

Richard