On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 10:48:07 -0000, "Gavin Staples"
wrote:


"Philip Eden" philipATweatherHYPHENukDOTcom wrote in message
...


Here is the full transcript of the first part of his 1325z broadcast,
published in the Meteorological Office Report: The Storm of
15-16 October 1987, Met.O., December 1987, p 4.19:

"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. On the
satellite picture you can see that there is of course a lot of
cloud as well as a lot of rain stretching right across Europe and
indeed most areas there are just as unsettled as we are having
some outbreaks of rain. That's the way the rainfall pattern is
looking at the moment, a lot of shading, a lot of rain across
many parts of Europe. Let's zoom in a little bit closer and
have a look at the British scene though, as you can see rain
is now further north left over from last nights weather system.
Now as I run the sequence you can see just how quickly the
rain comes up from France, affects many southern and eastern
areas and then eventually later on tonight clears on out of the
way and leaves us tomorrow in a fairly stiff run of westerly
winds bringing along quite a few showers."

[Spelling and punctuation as in the report's transcript]

Philip Eden


I like that, and it clears up a lot of the stick that Michael Fish got for
this. I like this bit though.

leaves us tomorrow in a fairly stiff run of westerly
winds bringing along quite a few showers."

Well the wind was certainly stiff all right.

He was referring to "stiff" (what a strange adjective to describe winds if you
think about it) winds in the cold air whereas the winds were decidedly more
"stiff" in the warm sector.

Martin