Hi

What interests me with the alert system of the Met Office is that it's not all that consistent. On Monday morning we had a very similar situation to what is developing this afternoon, but for Monday it was labelled an "Amber" event and this one a "Yellow".

Wind speeds are comparable at 1200 UTC today to that at 0600 UTC on Monday, and this system is still intensifying, and still has to cross the Pennines, when I should imagine the W'ly will if anything be enhanced.

I think the difference in the case of this feature though is 5° of latitude. What I mean by that, is that this system is running 5° further north that that the St Jude event.

I suppose they could 'up' the alert level as winds increase, and that could possibly happen later today...

Bruce.