From recollection, I can't recall this many storms or any as powerful as we're seeing this year. Can anyone else remember them being this many or as bad?
I know we're get 2 or 3 "strong" winds a year, but this is mental. Every other day 60 mph winds are just becoming the normal. Massive damage every time aswell.
It's a new phenomenon to give them names and stuff though isn't it? I can't recall John Kettley taking about storm Barry etc. Snow was worse when I was a kid 30 year ago compared to recent years imo.
I think we always have, just never as many so it was fewer and far between. Trees uprooted, walls falling down, roofs coming off, I've never known it as bad as this.
Yes I believe so. I was out sledging every Christmas on a field. Grab an old red and white gas board or something and away we go. It was at least a foot deep every year without fail.
Class wasn't it. Pull back on the board to gain speed, we were all experts because we had seen Cool Runnings. lol
I had to put myself next to a wall when walking to the car after work tonight, it was literally lifting me off my feet, I’m 16st and I was scared I must admit
I'm 6'3 and 17 stone and I struggled to walk into it mate. It's the damage to the place that gets me..200 year old trees in Barnes Park ripped out.
I went up to Edinburgh by train last weekend and there are pockets of trees/woodland all the way up the east coast mainline. Loads of trees flattened, must have been off the last couple of storms nevermind these 2 recent ones.
aye i was half joking to be honest...i believe they always had a naming system of some sort but the public never got to know them, just 'we will have strong winds overnight', someone else mentioned the snow and i often wonder if it is just some kind of selective memory that has me thinking we always had some 'decent' snow falls every winter where now we get a quick dusting of some 'powdery' snow. i honestly have no idea what to make of global warming/climate change...think i am more into the thought that it has always happened but industry burning fossil fuels and the loss of so much rainforest has not helped and is possibly speeding it up.
The place we used to go you had to jump off and do the roll underneath it or else eat a face full of barbed wire. It was very steep and the danger at the bottom gave it some added spice.
I tend to lean toward it being a natural occurrence myself mate. Winters were winters, so I know what you mean about the snow and winters.
I remember in the early 1970's (actually from the 1940's but that was before my time) scientists were concerned we were heading into an ice age - we had snow on one day in June 1975 (I remember snowballing with my Canadian friend behind Deeside Leisure Centre where his dad was the ice rink manager). Then that was forgotten about as Acid Rain took the environmental headlines. Then we were back to impending ice age in the 1980's and gradually Acid rain took the headlines again until the mid 1990's when global warming started to appear in the environmental news. I was a geek son of a mother who was an avid weather viewer and remember watching the old forecasts on BBC with temperatures also mentioned in Fahrenheit and before they used the cloud and sun symbols. So you can believe me when I tell you that we definitely used to have storms every winter with very high winds. What we didn't have was a huge network of automated weather stations that could transmit wind data in real time to television weather forecasters who can tell the UK public that there was a just a 122mph gust on the Isle of Wight - unless that gust just happened to be over one of the few weather stations we had then it would never even be known about. Nor did we have smartphones with video cameras that could record footage of the top of a church steeple breaking off and upload it to the internet and share it worldwide within minutes of the event happening. Nor did we have 24hr international and local news channels to show the video to people that may not have seen it.
