I was criticising Radio Scotland and GMTV for the use of the term heavy wind
and heavy gusts yesterday - ie that you can have heavy rain/snow etc but not
heavy wind.Today I thought, what about light wind - that is ok. Am i just a
weather nazi or is heavy wind wrong?

Another thought, what will yesterdays storm be called, it cant be just the
18th of jan 2007 storm can it?

brian
aberfeldy

black ice, as weather warned, well done MO.

In message , Brian Blair
writes
I was criticising Radio Scotland and GMTV for the use of the term heavy wind
and heavy gusts yesterday - ie that you can have heavy rain/snow etc but not
heavy wind.Today I thought, what about light wind - that is ok. Am i just a
weather nazi or is heavy wind wrong?

Another thought, what will yesterdays storm be called, it cant be just the
18th of jan 2007 storm can it?

brian
aberfeldy

On the other side of the coin you get "heavy seas" but I don't think
I've ever seen reference to "light seas" :-)

Norman.
(delete "thisbit" twice to e-mail)
--
Norman Lynagh Weather Consultancy
Chalfont St Giles 85m a.s.l.
England

Let's have a pedantic morning.... what is black ice called when it covers a
white road ,
when does 'fresher' become miserably cool in summer,and why do the Met
Office allow D.Corbett on television ? .
Finally (pedantic off) nobody on this illustrious group as far as I can see
has congratulated the Met guys with their amazingly accurate storm
forecast,since Monday in fact..
Perhaps we should actually congraulate their computers, but lets not be
pedantic !

RonB

"Brian Blair" wrote in message
...
I was criticising Radio Scotland and GMTV for the use of the term heavy
wind and heavy gusts yesterday - ie that you can have heavy rain/snow etc
but not heavy wind.Today I thought, what about light wind - that is ok. Am
i just a weather nazi or is heavy wind wrong?

Another thought, what will yesterdays storm be called, it cant be just the
18th of jan 2007 storm can it?

brian
aberfeldy

black ice, as weather warned, well done MO.

On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 10:08:45 GMT, Ron Button wrote in


Finally (pedantic off) nobody on this illustrious group as far as I can see
has congratulated the Met guys with their amazingly accurate storm
forecast,since Monday in fact..
Perhaps we should actually congraulate their computers, but lets not be
pedantic !

That's a very good point! In fact this storm was flagged as a possibility
a week in advance (the 10th), if my memory serves me correctly.

--
Mike Tullett - Coleraine 55.13°N 6.69°W posted 19/01/2007 10:23:05 GMT

Well it was my birthday yesterday amd Bennetts Storm has a ring to it

Jim

"Ron Button" wrote in message
...
Let's have a pedantic morning.... what is black ice called when it covers
a white road ,
when does 'fresher' become miserably cool in summer,and why do the Met
Office allow D.Corbett on television ? .

Hey, I like Dan Corbett, he's entertaining, with his unusual turn of phrase
and eccentric mixed metaphors, all delivered in an old-school 1940's type
package!

Brian Blair wrote:
I was criticising Radio Scotland and GMTV for the use of the term heavy wind
and heavy gusts yesterday - ie that you can have heavy rain/snow etc but not
heavy wind.Today I thought, what about light wind - that is ok. Am i just a
weather nazi or is heavy wind wrong?

Hi, Brian

As Bob Dylan sang "If you're travelling in the north country far, where
the winds get heavy on the borderline, remember me to the one who lives
there, for she once was a true love of mine"
(Girl of the north country - sung to the tune of Scarborough Fair)
HTH

Ken
Copley, County Durham

Brian Blair wrote:
I was criticising Radio Scotland and GMTV for the use of the term heavy wind
and heavy gusts yesterday - ie that you can have heavy rain/snow etc but not
heavy wind.Today I thought, what about light wind - that is ok. Am i just a
weather nazi or is heavy wind wrong?


When being struck by such gusts, they do feel heavy (-:
It does sound wrong though, but probably isn't.


Another thought, what will yesterdays storm be called, it cant be just the
18th of jan 2007 storm can it?


You could call it 'storm ten' if it actually was one. Or 'the weather' of
course. I shall call it 'light breeze' as that is all that happened here.


--
Gianna

if I was being pedantic I would say that

The MO got that storm spot on but vastly exaggerated a lot before that
one and surely that storm could have been spotted even by A GMTV
forecaster (It was).

/pedant

I think it should be called the Big Brother Storm ...sans teacup.



Ron Button wrote:
Let's have a pedantic morning.... what is black ice called when it covers a
white road ,
when does 'fresher' become miserably cool in summer,and why do the Met
Office allow D.Corbett on television ? .
Finally (pedantic off) nobody on this illustrious group as far as I can see
has congratulated the Met guys with their amazingly accurate storm
forecast,since Monday in fact..
Perhaps we should actually congraulate their computers, but lets not be
pedantic !

RonB

"Brian Blair" wrote in message
...
I was criticising Radio Scotland and GMTV for the use of the term heavy
wind and heavy gusts yesterday - ie that you can have heavy rain/snow etc
but not heavy wind.Today I thought, what about light wind - that is ok. Am
i just a weather nazi or is heavy wind wrong?

Another thought, what will yesterdays storm be called, it cant be just the
18th of jan 2007 storm can it?

brian
aberfeldy

black ice, as weather warned, well done MO.

Gianna wrote:

Brian Blair wrote:
I was criticising Radio Scotland and GMTV for the use of the term heavy wind
and heavy gusts yesterday - ie that you can have heavy rain/snow etc but not
heavy wind.Today I thought, what about light wind - that is ok. Am i just a
weather nazi or is heavy wind wrong?


When being struck by such gusts, they do feel heavy (-:
It does sound wrong though, but probably isn't.


Another thought, what will yesterdays storm be called, it cant be just the
18th of jan 2007 storm can it?


You could call it 'storm ten' if it actually was one. Or 'the weather' of
course. I shall call it 'light breeze' as that is all that happened here.


--
Gianna

It was nothing out of the ordinary here, just a tyical winter gale. Max
gust of 59mph compares with my January record of 80mph back in Jan '98,
& 66mph on 3rd Dec '06, when there was a good deal of damage & some
exceptionally large seas.

Wooden fence panels are something of a rarity in exposed parts of west
Cornwall for obvious reasons. We have proper Cornish hedges. (some of
the English call them walls) They tend not to blow away.

Graham
Penzance

Graham
Penzance