Weather warnings (FFS)

[Pondrew]

So the Met office have a relatively new system to warn us feckin idiots that the weather may be a little "extreme", or "different" to what we are used to (rain and shite interspersed with the odd nice day).
They have three 'grades' of warnings and this is my take them:
Yellow...Be aware as it's not the standard shite weather, but it will be OK, you will probably live.
Amber...Be more aware (don't know the difference TBH) as the weather could be a bit strange and some people will probably die
Red.....Be aware that you will probably die if you don't build a bunker in your garden (those with no garden can claim extra benefits to soften the blow).

We have seen Red weather warnings in the last few weeks because it was feckin hot
For the last few days we have seen amber weather warnings because it was hot (but not as hot as it was).
Today there are amber weather warnings for thunderstorms in the South West
For the next couple of days where I live there are Yellow warnings of thunderstorms.

Is this becoming the norm? Ever since I can remember when there was a spell of hot weather, there were thunderstorms after due to a build-up in humidity. That hasn't changed; just the traffic light system has.

I am waiting for an amber weather warning in November due to shite drizzly, dark and dank weather (the old normal) as it may impact on mental health. It may even be red, who knows!

 

[Southwestz4]

 

[buzyg]

Yellow = Normal day on the moors.
Amber = Warmer or wetter or colder, Normal day on the moors.
Red = Good training day, I'm off for a jog on the moors.

 

[TitanTim]

You mean like this :roll:

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/breaking-uk-weather-danger-life-27744726

I'm staying in today, might not make it otherwise.

Tim.

 

[brillomaster]

Yes, extreme weather events in the UK are becoming the new norm, climate change is real. great when you have 20 degree days in february, not so great when you have 40 degree days in July.

still, it'll save money on going on holidays - why fly to spain when its considerably hotter in the UK.

 

[Chris_D]

Fekin nanny state UK these days, jeezus.

The Dutch have a much more pragmatic approach to hot weather; they just jump in the nearest canal to cool off, then carry on as usual.
https://www.dutchnews.nl/features/2022/08/hot-and-hungry-where-to-swim-and-eat-in-amsterdam/

This was me last Sunday in 33°. As per Buzylar states, great training weather, loved it:

 

[pvr]

We have a yellow warning here at the moment, as with the rain we have the wrong type of ground compactness after the dry spell.

Wrong type of ground ???

 

[Dav the wheel nut]

No need to worry about these warnings because in case you are not aware from October the government has decided if they deem it necessary you will receive an [youtube]9yLd2AjGzYI[/youtube]

 

[pvr]

Ah yes, like the (fake) NHS ones

 

[MikeyH]

Yes we have had yellow ones here in Devon but all we've had is a little tiny bit of rain, not enough to fill a thimble. Later today it's it's forecast thunder and lighting. We'll see.

 

[pvr]

We had the severe thunder and lightning here, and a lot of rain. Funny enough, it seemed to go straight in the ground and non of this running off the grass bit. No puddles either.

 

[N4LLY]

Love weather me, more extreme the better

 

[PerryGunn]

Draw your own conclusions regarding the change of style...

 

[Nanu]

Climate change (Sorry Climate emergency) apparently. It does that to weather maps don't you know

 

[sars]

Explain to blondie, why you’d want less information rather than more, it’s like saying you’d rather be dumber

 

[pvr]

Explain to blondie, why you’d want less information rather than more, it’s like saying you’d rather be dumber

Less is more, too much information and you lose sight of the original message.

Also, if you have done sixth sigma which I suspect you would have, you only want the pure data

 

[buzyg]

Explain to blondie, why you’d want less information rather than more, it’s like saying you’d rather be dumber

Less is more, too much information and you lose sight of the original message.

Also, if you have done sixth sigma which I suspect you would have, you only want the pure data

There was a period when you could customise the met office site, to show the data you wanted. I for one winged all over them when they took that feature away. Having spent much of my working life collating and filtering data, so that clever people could understand it. I do understand why sites do it though. It's because it is perceived that most folks are too busy doing other stuff and want the summary. Personally wrt weather I'll take all the data I can get my paws on and filter it myself.

 

[Ole gits rule]

Bloody snowflake generation - they need to be told to drink water and stay in the shade because its hot and to not stand on the sea wall when there is a force 9 gale blowing.

Common sense has gone missing these days - drive me mad

 

[Pondrew]

Explain to blondie, why you’d want less information rather than more, it’s like saying you’d rather be dumber

It's not about the information Gorge, it's about the way it is portrayed that fecks me off.
It's all scaremongering these days.
Life is scary enough without the weather being added to it.
Perry's maps above sum it up TBH.

It's either a subliminal message (and I'm not a conspiracy theorist BTW) regarding 'climate change', or the powers that be presume the British public are too thick to work stuff out for themselves. Could be both TBH.

Nowadays if it's a bit windy (I live in the Fens it's always feckin windy here) they have to give it a name. It really doesn't make any difference to anyone if the wind is called "Alesha", "Beatrice" or "Norman", it's still wind!

 

[Pondrew]

It's pis*ing down here ATM. Yesterday we were told we need the rain or the world will come to an end; today there is a weather warning because it's raining.
Make your feckin minds up! :x