Last weeks UK storms - anyone get killed near you?

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by lord of the mark


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

Cultural reasons. Hurricanes are more well known and impacting through (amongst other things) European news media.

[Drake Tungsten]

I'm pretty sure Europeans called them typhoons long before Asia was discovered and the existence of Pacific weather systems was known.

[Dauphin]

'Pretty sure' is better than 'probable'. As a phone a friend I have more confidence in you Drake.

However Lotm seems to know the most on the issue (or can use google). So he get's the call thanks Regus.

[Drake Tungsten]

It's "Regis"...

[Dauphin]

Sorry, Drske.

[Odin]

Originally posted by LordShiva
Odin should hang out in a cyclone one of these days

We have tornadoes and blizzards, that's all the weather exitement I need.

[Solly]

Originally posted by Odin


We have tornadoes and blizzards, that's all the weather exitement I need.

We have more tornadoes than you, and we have blizzards arriving in ten days

[ajbera]

Some nice info on European windstorms:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_windstorm

And here's the genesis of the storm's name "Kyril" (or "Cyril"):

Cyril Storm Named After Bulgarian

Politics: 19 January 2007, Friday.

The name of the Cyril storm that swept over the north of Europe, killing dozens, sounded too familiar to Bulgarians and, sure enough, it turned out that the hurricane has been named after a Bulgarian expat.

Kiril Genov, 65, has lived in Germany for the past 40 years, and he never expected to become famous through mass destruction, but this is exactly how it turned out in the end.

Genov's children had decided to surprise him for his birthday by naming a low-atmospheric current after him, bTV reported.

The business of "selling" the names of such currents for a year is popular in Germany and they make a nice gift. For the price of EUR 199 their father's name would be heard on weather forecasts from time to time as the current moved, and that would be it, they thought. No one expected, however that the current would turn into a hurricane and "Cyril" will be the among the most discussed topics in the news in the past days.

In a friendly nod to his "godfather", the hurricane circled Bulgaria, leaving only light material damages behind.

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=75595

I like that the naming program is called "Adopt-a-vortex".

http://www.met.fu-berlin.de/adopt-a-vortex/historie/