Last weeks UK storms - anyone get killed near you?

[Proteus_MST]

I stayed at home and we didn´t experience anything unusual (looks like the landscape sloweed the windspeed down a bit).

But a friend of mine needed 8.5 hours to get home from work (where normally he needed just around 1 hour), as, because of Kyril, the train service was almost completely shut down and he had to travel across NRW (northrhine westfalia) via bus and the few train lines that still were open)

[LordShiva]

Originally posted by Dauphin
Had some windy conditions at the game on 17 Jan.

[Provost Harrison]

Originally posted by Doddler
They closed our city centre off And it burst our balcony door open

If only they would make that closure permanent...

[Odin]

Why the Hell do you Euros call major temperate storm systems "hurricanes"?

[Adalbertus]

Hurrican is defined by the Beaufort scale as having a wind speed >117 km/h. Kyrill had a maximum speed of 225 km/h somewhere in the Alps, so it qualifies. No, and I don't want to have a storm in Europe which makes the sea flooding the Netherlands, and the Dutch flooding Germany, Switzerland, Austria, France and Italy with caravans. We definitly don't have camping sites for 15 million people.

Btw. you were the first one to mention the word "hurrican".

[Drogue]

Originally posted by Odin
Why the Hell do you Euros call major temperate storm systems "hurricanes"?

As said, who mentioned hurricanes? I wasn't aware we did refer to storms as such.

[Chemical Ollie]

Originally posted by Odin
Why the Hell do you Euros call major temperate storm systems "hurricanes"?

According to my Oxford Dictionary, hurricane = severe storm

It was probably called that even before America was discovered and the existance of the Caribean weather systems was known.

[Odin]

Originally posted by Adalbertus

Btw. you were the first one to mention the word "hurrican".

I heard it refered by Brits on other forums I post on, as well in European news sites as a "hurricane." It was just something that bugged me.

[Cort Haus]

Originally posted by Odin
I heard it refered by Brits on other forums I post on, as well in European news sites as a "hurricane." It was just something that bugged me.

Well, we didn't call it that, but what wind speed would you call a hurricane? As Albertus said, some wind-speeds did exceed the 117 km/h definition.

[Solly]

We had 100mph+ didn't we? What's that in Eurospeeds?

[Cort Haus]

More than enough. Force 12 is 73-83 mph which is a Hurricane. Odin is just being a stupid "your winds are smaller than our big american winds" prat.

http://www.zetnet.co.uk/sigs/weather/Met_Codes/beaufort.htm

[LordShiva]

Odin should hang out in a cyclone one of these days

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Chemical Ollie


According to my Oxford Dictionary, hurricane = severe storm

It was probably called that even before America was discovered and the existance of the Caribean weather systems was known.

seeing as the word is derived from Taino, I very much doubt that.

[Dauphin]

I hear the term 'hurricane force winds' on the weather forecast when its extremley windy and warrants the term, hurricane is then used by the bloke in the street cos it's easier to say. So what?

'Mericans call their sport football, so who has the bigger right to complain?

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Cort Haus
More than enough. Force 12 is 73-83 mph which is a Hurricane. Odin is just being a stupid "your winds are smaller than our big american winds" prat.

http://www.zetnet.co.uk/sigs/weather...s/beaufort.htm

why not call it a typhoon then? They have just as strong winds, IIUC.