The front page intro from Wednesday's Daily Record, Scotlands largest
selling tabloid, read:

"A 124 mph Hurricane hit Scotland last night.."

I guess "A gust of wind measuring 124 mph was measured half way up a light
house, on a cliff, on an uninhabited island in the Outer Herbrides last
night, meanwhile most of urban Scotland experienced gusts of 50-60 mph" -
may not have pleased the Editior so much

Mind you by the same token why not have on the back page

"Rangers 12 Celtic 0" when the score was 1-0 ? - they never seem to get the
footie scores wrong, or say inflate crowds (46,400 saw East Sitrling draw
0-0 at Cowdenbeath etc). I guess it is because they have informed,
interested reporters for football and leave weather to anyone who has got
nowt to do. yet noone has died this year because of football and it is
relevant to only around 1/2 the readership....


"Jack Harrison" wrote in message
.. .
What is needed is a parallel to the scales used for hurricanes, eg 1 being
trivial to 5 being devastating.

So Tuesday night's windstorm might have been rated a 4 (as might have been
the October storm of 1987)

I leave it to the experts to decide on the details of the parameters to be
used, but there must be some clues in the hurricane scale that are a good
starting point.

Brian Blair came up with this idea of "ratings" in the first place. Let's
not forget where the rightful credit is due.

Jack