Richard Dixon wrote:
On Wednesday, 26 September 2012 07:55:38 UTC+1, David Allan wrote:
Just heard the weather of the last couple of days described on BBC radio as the "...worst September storms for 30 years...", which, if true, sort of answers my previous question of just how unusual is this sort of weather. what might arrive on our doorsteps for the closing months of 2012?

I only had video of Peter Gibbs but no audio and was wondering what they were using to classify the "worseness". I saw a 973mb on the chart which made me wonder whether they were simply using central pressure as a proxy for "worseness"...

Richard
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My thoughts entirely Richard. What criteria were used to define "worst"
September storm?
Was it amount of rain and number of regions affected,low pressure, wind
speed (I doubt it), population size affected. I just don't see how they
could come to this conclusion other than in some subjective way. I'm not
disputing it - just not sure what the criteria are for a "storm"
Dave