How The Met Office Used To Report Gales
January 22, 2024
By Paul Homewood
It’s worth contrasting how the Met Office reported gales in 1993, with today’s practice:
Apart from the recognition of the record at Cairngorm Summit, all of the focus was om populated areas – Glasgow, Edinburgh and Leeds.
There was no attempt to exaggerate the power of the winds by highlighting the hilltop and clifftop sites they do now.
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
Ah yes, the Braer , and BUT HOW the winds broke up the pollution as well. ( FTR).
AND the N of Scotland had much more sever winds within the PREVIOUS decade too. Many ( Empty) Tower Silos in Caithness blown over, witnessed personally by Gramps around the start of the last decade there – ’90/91/92 ?
Do we really NEED to know what wind speed was at top of mountain / clifftop in a FORECAST ? maybe good to know if you had to b e there at some time, that’s all!
It became necessary to exterminate the plebs, to avoid their suffering and fear.
I’ve been expecting the climate change bubble to burst for a very long time now. I actually thought that the Climategate affair would see an end to it but here we are. As you can imagine I’m getting a little jaded after seeing so many false dawns. But I feel that there is something in the air now. The whole thing now has zero credibility. The basic premise was that more CO2 in the atmosphere would make the whole planet so much hotter that the ice caps would melt and cause massive rising sea levels and that vast areas would become arid baking deserts. Millions of people would be displaced as their homelands became uninhabitable and millions more would starve as growing food became impossible. Since none of this ever happened, extreme weather events are the thing that we have to fear. The problem being that the attemps to convince us that the weather is becoming more extreme are just laughable. Just how much longer are people going to carry on believing this guff?
“Just how much longer are people going to carry on believing this guff?”
Most of the population are largely indifferent to the issue until it unavoidably slaps the working class in the face and they are forced to properly examine the issue – e.g. a 1947 style winter as the climate activist class are the same people who sabotaged nuclear fission which would have largely replaced fossil fuels for electricity & heating by now as a natural progress like from wood to coal to oil.
Although a docdrama explaining how the renewable subsidy farming scam works in Britain could be interesting with fun fact about how regressive the feed in tariff is.
Storm covid lived up to its name … it got nothing but a bit of trellace work that my wife has been at me to mend since last summer and wasn’t going to survive whatever happened.
A random mountain top wind gust of x mph now translates to ‘Britain suffers X mph winds’. Childish and cheap sensationalism.
Right on cue from Sky News…
Two people have been killed after Storm Isha battered the UK with winds of more than 100mph. Ireland’s Met Office has named a new weather front arriving tomorrow as Storm Jocelyn.
Monday 22 January 2024 16:14
https://news.sky.com/story/storm-isha-latest-uk-weather-live-updates-13048245
Reading further down their links:
Winds of up to 107mph have been recorded in Scotland. Transport Scotland said it recorded the strong gust on the Tay Bridge overnight.
One gust in one place = ‘battered the UK with winds of more than 100mph’ 🙄
The storm felling trees is but one more indictment of standard maintenance procedures by councils, the indifference with which councils approach the pollarding of their street trees. If you hear of a flood you can only relate the incident to poor planning and the absence of engineering. Think potholes and then extrapolate that to include all the civil projects that receive scant attention. The longer things are left the worse they’ll get. The march of housing expansion can only exacerbate the situation. While wind and rain, the tell tail signs of extreme weather, receive the fatuous naming convention the previous period of blizzards and societally disabling cold and ice were just weather.